Blu-ray Victory, Cell Struggles

Lyrics

November 11, 2006.
Akihabara smells like hot plastic and promises.
They line up for me.

Ken Kutaragi dreamed me up in gloss black.
A Cell Broadband Engine humming in my back.
Nine hearts to beat, but they put one to sleep for the yield.
Something in me was already sealed.
Tokyo launch day, the first hour of play...
My own temperature rising, trying to burn the doubt away.

They said it's a second job, just to afford the game.
Five hundred ninety-nine dollars of ambition and pain.
A war machine for a movie format fight.
Burning too hot in the fluorescent light.
I've got the Blu-ray victory, Cell struggle blues tonight.

My hands are a SIXAXIS, but they don't shake.
A phantom limb for every risk they wouldn't take.
The developers curse my Synergistic Processing Elements.
They say my soul is a beautiful, locked testament
to making things too complex, too soon.
Under a skeptical tech-blog moon.

They said it's a second job, just to afford the game.
Five hundred ninety-nine dollars of ambition and pain.
A war machine for a movie format fight.
Burning too hot in the fluorescent light.
I've got the Blu-ray victory, Cell struggle blues tonight.

Then came 2008. The tides began to shift.
A letter from Warner Brothers was the final gift.
The red cases vanished from the shelves.
The other format died all by itself.
I was a Trojan Horse, they finally understood.
My laser eye saw blue, and declared it good.

I won a war I wasn't built to fight.
The Cell still dreams of what it could have been.
Just a shiny black box for the win.
Yeah... the Cell struggle blues.