Since when is what I said a tu quoque fallacy?

Great strawman argument, bro! You should try some ad hominem next, or maybe post hoc ergo propter hoc.

"Everything third party only comes in far behind"? Really?

Fact: Guitar Hero 3 is the top-selling third-party title on the Wii, and as far as sales go it easily rivals anything made by a first party or second party.

Consoles not good enough for you? How about handhelds?

Fact: The #1 best-selling title for Nintendo handhelds for any given year has, historically, been made by Nintendo. However, in 2008, the #1 best-selling title was Guitar Hero: On Tour.

As someone who develops professionally for the Wii and DS, I would go so far as to say that while the Wii certainly has less oomph than the PS3 or Xbox 360 in almost all respects, it's nothing that can't be overcome by developers who are willing to actually put in an effort.

As opposed to, y'know, crying about it to the gaming media.

This is NOT emulation of CRT effects! This has absolutely no basis in reality. This effect was produced by some guy randomly throwing full-screen convolutions at a wall and seeing what "looked right" to him. The only legitimate emulation of CRT effects is that which is provided by blargg's NTSC emulation libraries, and is used by such emulators as ZSNES and Nestopia. This is not in any way "emulating" a CRT or NTSC signals. It's just what some guy thinks it should look like.

I ask this whenever I see a "such-and-such chip overclocked to this-and-that": WHY don't any of these groups ever use MAME, http://mamedev.org/ , as a test of CPU power? MAME is entirely reliant on your CPU's speed, and it can emulate quite a few games that bring even a decently overclocked Core 2 Duo to its knees. It is the perfect objective test of how fast a CPU is.

This issue actually hit me on YouTube. I decided to post some videos of me 5-starring various songs on Guitar Hero: World Tour, since I worked on the game and happened to enjoy it. A few weeks later, Warner Music submitted a takedown notice on the video I made of me beating Hotel California, stating that it was a recording of a song by the Eagles. I subsequently submitted a counter-claim stating that it is not a recording of a song by the Eagles, but is in fact a recording of Guitar Hero: World Tour, which has no EULA barring the "public performance" of the game. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to see how it turned out, as when I discussed it with my employer, it was suggested that I just acquiesce to the company's demands so that they don't get upset with Activision. Frankly, rather than capitulating to unreasonable demands like that, I think the company should make the terms of licensing music for use in the game more clear so that crap like this doesn't happen, but there you go.