PS 3

The Sony Corp announced today that the long-awaited Spring of 2006 unveiling of the vaunted Play Station 3 will be delayed possibly until November because of an internal software problem. This is seen as a major set-back to the electronics giant.

It's also a huge setback to millions parents all across America.

Without the new Play Station, mothers and fathers will be forced to actually communicate with their children when they come home from work in the evenings, making for some rather awkward conversations and situations. "I've been so used to little Marky being totally absorbed in his gangsta gunfight game that I've never had to talk to him before", said a father in Ooleewop Minnesota. "I had no idea he was so tall now."

Other complications are sure to arise. Homework assignments will no doubt start being completed - and correctly - which will lead to teachers thinking that Mom has started doing her child's work, which would be cheating. Grades, previously exalted at the 'C-' level will increase, causing additional stress due to the now imperative financial burden of having a child previously pre-destined for 3 months at the local community college who is now thinking of a major university and a quality education.

Fast and snack food companies are outraged by the delay. Without the new video game, children will actually start going outside and exercising, leading to a reduction in overweight or outright obese youngsters, which will impact the bottom line of companies like "Debbie's Cakes".

"These and other issues associated with this delay are bound to cause serious financial difficulties in a kind of domino-effect", said Senator Biff Boffo of California. "It is the moral and financial obligation of this administration to step in an lend assistance to the Sony corporation to keep this potential disaster from happening", he concluded.

Oh the humanity.