If you really believe this, you clearly didn't edit Wikipedia much or did recent changes patrol. When there is a big news (like the death of someone), the related pages are watched carefully for a short period.
On the other hand, most of the pages don't have at least one guardian angel to keep them accurate all year long.
I'm sure anyone who have dealt with vandalism on Wikipedia has seen some clever/sneaky vandalism along the way or some stupid edits kept for months.

Ever heard of MadWorld on Wii ? Extreme violence, with a clever gameplay that makes a good use of the Wiimote

I don't have the sales figures but it does show that the Wii accepts almost any game.

Although it doesnt seem to be the norm on /., some people (myself included), don't find necessary to have a computer running or even sleeping idle (and consuming electricity) for 10-15h/day when nobody is here to use it (during night and work hours).
It makes sense to keep a computer running 24/24 if it's a server, otherwise, it's useless. Moreover, if computer were fast to boot, hibernating would be almost useless.

I was waiting for the argument saying that movie are still expensive 10 years later. The main difference is the evolution of the medium.
Video Game is a new industry, which is getting bigger every year. Moreover the technology behind it is booming. 10 years old games looks like crap by today's standards (even though they are still very good). 10 years old games were done by smallers teams (credits get longer and longer...i just saw the endless credits of Gears of war 2 last month).
On the other hand, movie still have a lot to tell but technology and budgets doesn't evolve as fast as the ones for video games (except maybe for the ones using a lot of special effects). So a 10 years old movie doesn't seem as old as a 10 years old video game (The "Tekken" series is a great example for that). But still, very old movies tends to have lower prices.
That's why i think the price of games should decrease faster than the price for movies.
Last thing that maybe wasn't clear from my earlier posts : I'm all in favor of copyrights law and i believe that companies should make money from their older games. But I still think their pricing scheme for retro-gaming are often (but not always, see above my mention of the Sega pack) ridiculous.

Beneath a Steel Sky is a freeware since 2003. That's why it is the only game (with "Flight of the Amazon Queen") the ScummVM crew can distribute with their engine.

So, it isn't hard for GoG to "offer" it...

I m very happy they are re-releasing hit games. But they are clearly overpriced. A 2 years-old PC game ends up in the bargain bin for 10 dollars/euros.
So how do you justify the fact that a 10 years old game is worth 15 dollars/euros ?
On the other hand, Sega did a very sensible thing with the Sega Megadrive Collection with 20 hit games in one pack for a reasonable price
However, it worries me when i see Pikmin (a Gamecube game) re-released as a Wii Game for no reason (Wiimote add nothing to this game). I fear that game companies will sell us again all of their games with each new console

Every time i see headlines like "ScummVM add new games" or something similar, i'm disappointed. It only adds support for theses games.
You still need to have an old working version of the game or find it in the grey realm of abandonware.
I wish companies would release theses old games for free (so that they can join "Flight of the Amazon Queen" or "Beneath a Steel Sky"), or sell them all as a single compilation.
But it doesn't seem to be going that way. Instead companies now offer each of their hit as overpriced DLC (1200 MS Points for R-Type 1&2 ?! WTF ??). The sad thing is that people seem to be stupid enough to buy them... :/

Then you wouldn't port Nethack, you'd make a Nethack-inspired game that wouldn't be Nethack. The whole point of Nethack is having a seemingly "open" gameplay : tons of availables actions, your imagination is most often than not the limit.
Hell, Nethack's motto is "if you think something is possible, do it, the devs probably thought it about it before". Actually, limitating you to the obvious would probably prevent you from finishing the game (which is already insanely hard as it is).
However, mentioning Nethack is clearly very relevent to the debate here. That's the only game i know that give you this sensation of freedom with a predefined set of commands.
PS : I tried Final Fantasy XI on a PC I know first-hand how console RPG's interface can be frustrating.

Not to be mean, but have you ever played Nethack seriously ?
What you say is wrong because, Nethack doesnt limit you, you can try any action with any object (it may lead to nothing but at least you can try to do it). You select an action, it suggests obvious choices but you can also try everything else.
For example, if you want to "wield a weapon" (== "equip a weapon"), the game suggest items that obviously qualify as weapons (sword, bow, ...) but if you want to wield another object such as a potion, a monster corpse, or anything else, you can do it and you may discover interesting effects with this.
My point is, if you go from action->object to object->action, you would still have to display all the objects available and then display all the actions available : you didn't reduce choice or the difficulty to navigate the interface at all.