"We're Not Coming Out For A While Because Music Is A Mortal Sin."

We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online update, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it.</blockquote>

So Sony have pulled the game (which has already shipped to most US outlets and is probably sitting in a manufacturing warehouse somewhere in Europe) because they feel a "patch" would not be available to all customers and therefore the game code is going to have to be changed, all the discs reprinted and reshipped to the rest of the world. Which leaves Sony heavily out of pocket on the project and gamers seething. Myself in particular.

If Sony feel it "unfair" to patch a game because a few don't have Internet access, surely they should release new sets of discs each time a game gets a graphical glitch attended to or a new game mode added in. Burnout Paradise should have been recalled about six times by now.

Obviously I realise I'm being unfair and my argument doesn't totally hold weight but, honestly I find this ridiculous. The fault is with the artist. If religious people want to go all hypo-sensitive shouldn't they take up the issue with the perpetrator who actually, you know, used those lyrics. I don't see how a lyric that 80% of us won't even notice should cause a delay like this.

I'm not getting on at Islam or anything - I appreciate and understand your beliefs and I even respect the manner in which this has been brought to the public eye: the original suggestion of a patch and future printed discs to have the song removed is a good one. So why have Sony decided to take such drastic measures that put the whole advertising process for their biggest release of the year in tatters. Not to mention severely upset fans.

This just seems way over the top to me. WAY WAY over the top.

In fact I'm furious.

You can hear the ultra-offensive (and actually pretty good) Tapha Niang here.