A company that pockets billions in profit can never rightly claim to be acting on its customers' behalf...

A nice overview, but I was a little disappointed by the lack of 'future tech'. LittleBigPlanet showcases a new lighting technique that creates a very convincing realtime GI look. Alex Evans work is documented here :
http://ati.amd.com/developer/siggraph06/Evans-Fast_Approximations_for_Li...

He goes into more technical detail here, in a combination paper that links in with some other methods. Evans' GI solution is the last chapter. :
http://ati.amd.com/developer/techreports/2006/SIGGRAPH2006/Course_26_SIG...

The method isn't broadly applicable and only found its way into LBP due to LBP's 2.5D design, but it shows an alternative lighting model and how novel thinking can find striking solutions.

The complaint was that the mixing of Qu'ran lines with music was offensive in itself. Is that true? I've tried a quick internet search but couldn't find anything about other songs with Qu'ran versus in them. AFAIK all other religions mix their holy words with music to make them more appealing. Do Muslim chants/hymns not refer to their holy book whatsoever? Is there not a single Qu'ran verse ever played over the specialist broadcast services, and was the song, 2 years old, frowned upon by the Islamic community, and teenagers had to sneak copies home to listen to?

All I've heard so far points to this one letter being a impetus point of overreaction. I haven't read anything from any Imam, or higher up representative.

@ ShamanNY - Your suspicions seem unjustified to me. LBP is already out there, as some US companies released stock yesterday, but we haven't heard of any diabolical faults. There could be network problems not yet found because the servers aren't online, but being dishonest about it seems incredibly implausible to me. Blaming a religious PR blunder would be the worst possible thing to do, antagonising certain quarters against each other and still getting the wrap for being rubbish - how are Sony better off with this rather than saying a technical fault has caused a recall? You'd also either have to take the letter as a hoax created by Sony to hide behind, or as a convenient coincidence that Sony, with their buggy game and wanting a recall, were happy to use as an excuse.