Mostly yes.

Don't forget the configuration/maintenance/upgrade issues of maintaining a gaming ready Windows machine. It isn't just finite money, it's finite time as well.

That's "if" you have any interest in those other exclusives. I personally don't.

A reasonably good mid-range gamer build that you won't have to upgrade right away? Oh about 1200 -1500 dollars. You can pay less, of course, say 700 -800 for a budget build, but you'll have to upgrade that one sooner, and it won't be quite as good as a PS4.

It's one of the reasons that if you look at the census data, Massachusetts comes out looking good. unlike say Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, etc etc

Massachusetts isn't a net burden on the US like those states are. Massachusetts pays it's own way and more than that it's a better place to live.

Massachusets blows other states away in actual census data. Education, economy, median income, poverty rates, teen pregnancy.

And it isn't dependent on federal dollars, unlike other places. The reason for that is that Massachusetts isn't trying to race to the bottom with the South.

Texas is a shithole dependant on Federal dollars. Sure, businesses love a place that lets them do whatever they want at the expense of the actual workers and populace. But it's a race to the bottom that even Texas can't win.

100 degrees in summer?

Wannabe theocrats?

You can research things yourself, can't you?

It does, but one of the many reasons it does is how our population is distributed.

Probably, but AT&T isn't really dismantled any more, is it.

Why should I repost data that even a cursory google search can find? Besides, any dumb bunny knows that population density drops off outside of metro-areas in the US, but that in Korea the population is more concentrated.

The lazy person was the one who didn't google. Why should I be the "Let Me Google That For You" guy?

Yeah yeah, complain again about the Millenials, that's some axe you got against them, buddy. However I am not one of them, I was born in '67.

I run Linux on my PC, I would rather not run Windows. I also had a PS3, PS2 and PSone before it, though I don't own any any Sony TV/Stereo equipment. I also prefer analog movement to WASD. Playing games on that PS4 is "Easy Button Easy", no muss, no fuss. "It Just Works"

I have a Phenom X4 in it, and a GT640, but to curbstomp that PS4 would require a GT970 or greater (which is more than $180). All I know is that War Thunder runs better on the PS4 than it does on the PC (I do have the Linux version installed), the controls are a non-issue since War Thunder PS4 supports the same control methods the PC version does.

  I don't want to have to pay $180 (or more)...just for a video card. I want to just buy a box and not worry about upgrades for years and know that most every game that says PS4 on the label will run fairly well (with a few notable exceptions from some exceptionally lazy developers).

I also think we shouldn't be throwing new hardware at games willy nilly. "Fixed" hardware encourages developers to at least try to do proper optimization rather than being lazy numbskulls.

I'm a console gamer at heart, I really don't think highly of PC gamers at all. When I'm being uncharitable I sometimes say things like "PC gamers are a bunch of overly entitled pirates who spend hundreds of dollars/euros on a new video card and then complain about high game prices so they go pirate everything or play a single map in a single game for 10 years. Perhaps if they spent less money on hardware they'd have more money for games"

I have a finite amount of fun money, every dollar I spend on hardware is one less I can spend on an actual game.

Bad students are certainly a thing but any time I've seen a professor talk about how bad a whole class is (and I've seen it, I do IT support at a university) is the PROFESSOR who is the bad one.

We had a guy who only lasted one semester before being told to leave. He disrespected his students, did a shit job teaching anything, and expected everyone to have advanced processor design knowledge that was PhD level or beyond. He gave them an impossible project and then raged at them when they couldn't do it.

While there may well have been a few lazy and/or disrespectful students in his class, the overwhelming problem was him. He expected everyone to kiss his ass all the time, not expect anything from him, and have education far beyond their years. With unrealistic expectations like that, of course he was disappointed in his class.

Everyone "failed" his class by raw numbers but he just curved it so in the end grades were a representation of intelligence, not mastery of the subject.

he doesn't need to provide a citation because it's all in the census data, you can look up the population density of New York, Chicago, or LA and compare them to Seoul. Not only that, but in the US population density drops quickly, but in Korea it stays high

Or the scenery/terrain discs for FS II back in '83!

Well I've pre-ordered a few things. most recently Diablo on the PS3 (and later on the PS4). But in that case I didn't pre-order until I had watched one of the PAX 2013 videos showing someone actually playing the game and showing menus and whatnot as he was playing: I was a big fan of Diablo on the PSone too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With the PS4 version, I had the PS3 version as the "demo".

I'm tempted to pre-order TESO on the PS4. In that case I was able to watch live play of PS4 players playing the Beta.

I can confirm Tepples statement. Late SNES games cost more than PSone games. 59 vs 49. Nintendo was less quick to discount games, it was common to see a "players choice" labeled title at full price, while Greatest HIts PSone titles were using 19.99.

I'm also old enough to remember full price atari 2600 titles at $40. So when whippersnappers complain about paying $59 for the MASSIVE amount of content in unmodded Skyrim, it gets my dander up. I'd shout the kids off my lawn but my lumbago and rheumatiz are actin up.

Multiple TV households were fairly common by 1991, so sharing was less common than you think it was.

Or work, dinner, household chores, etc etc.

Indeed. Or better overall time, like with Metroid and Super Metroid. Heck, if you're reasonably good, you can beat Metroid in an hour and a half without any "glitching" or other tricks. It's possible to beat Super Metroid in under 3 hours though I think I only got down to 3 hours and a half.

In other words, cheat codes. How fast can you make it through the main quest WITHOUT using console commands? It's a hell of a lot longer than 10-12 hours.

Top marginal tax rate was over 90 percent at one time. So actually, they did. Business tax rates were higher too. Was one of the greatest growth periods of American history, because the government spent that money on infrastructure. a LOT of infrastructure.