No matter what Sony wants to call 2008, it will probably be called "the year the PSN caught up to Xbox Live." Further adding to the storyline is the unveiling of the new portable ID card, allowing PS2, PS3, and PlayStation.com users to link their accounts into one global username. (XBox 360 users call them gamertags, but let's not get too hung up with semantics here.) Anyway, behold:



The empty space underneath the username is where your profile information goes (up to 21 characters). Mine, obviously, is blank. Here's to hoping for PS3 Trophies to make an appearance somewhere on the ID in the future and/or the ability to customize the appearance.

If you haven't linked up your profiles yet, get going already: http://www.us.playstation.com/MyAccount