It's almost as if normal people use computers to get stuff done, not just for the sake of using a computer.

I'm pretty sure that professional athletes play video games. They have a lot of downtime.

What's democratic about the EU telling sovereign nations that they have to send people to prison, even when they don't want to?

The sooner we're out of this totalitarian institution the better. They can't even run a fucking currency properly and they're telling nations how to run their justice systems? Absurd.

So if you're not good at baseball you can't get an engineering degree? Strange system. Does it work the other way around? If you're good at maths do you get to be a pro athlete?

Please tell me how Diablo 3, with sales of twelve million in eight months, was a failure. I'm all ears.

Have you any evidence that people you know are representative of WoW's general player-base? I think the hardcore vocal minority players who infest internet forums overstate the importance of end-game.

When WoW gained most of its players, in the vanilla era, only 1% of the playerbase even did the original Naxx raid. That suggests that raiding really isn't anything to do with the popularity of WoW.

If anything, the increasing popularity of end-game instanced content, with the dungeon finder and raid finder, has coincided with a collapse in the game's population.

Yet it sold 12 million copies in less than a year. If that's not great then I wonder what is.

100 million sales of the Wii versus 160 million for the PS3 and Xbox suggests they do, not to mention PC games. That's not counting game sales, how many Wii owners bought wii sports, mario kart, then let it collect dust for years? It's the console and PC gamers bringing in the regular cash.

Australian prices are a totally different world.

An eight year old console will play the latest games better than an eight year old PC.

So a rumour is when there's no source, but an allegation is when there's no source either, but it's ok because the hack knows someone but won't tell?

If you're talking shit about someone in the media and don't have the proof to back it up you should be sued.

Yeah everyone today lives in a palace, wears silk shirts and fur coats, eats the best meats, vegetables and fruits, and spends all their free time hunting and fucking.

If you were a king in the middle ages you didn't need heating because you had a huge log fire, you didn't need air con because you're in mediaeval England, if took you months to get anywhere but you're the king, everyone else adjusts to your schedule. You could have a bath whenever you wanted, filled by servants.

Looking at overclockers.co.uk, the prices seem to be the HD7770 at $135, and $80 for the processor. That's not counting the motherboard at $60, $75 for the RAM, $50 for a case that will be bigger than a console case and won't fit under your TV, $75 for the PSU, $60 for the hard disk, $20 for the wireless adapter (and that's a dongle, not internal like on the PS3), $6 for the bluetooth (again, a dongle, it's internal in the PS3), the Windows tax at $120, $30 for the controller., $75 for blu-ray.

That's to get something roughly equivalent to the lastest consoles, it adds up to around $775, or about £520 at $1.50 to the pound. If the consoles cost that much they're dead in the water.

I'm not even including the cost of kinnect, which I'm not sure is even available for the PC. Granted though, the games on PC are dirt cheap, consoles have no Steam sales.

But to say you can game on a PC for $40 is laughable. For a start, most PCs these days are laptops not desktops, so they don't even have room for those new giant graphics cards with multiple fans.

No idea what Tiger is, if it's an American company then you've obviously missed the point of my post, in that the US is unique in having cheap computer parts. $100 for a graphics card? That's about £67, good look getting a decent graphics card for that price. Something equivalent to what's in the PS4 would cost well over a hundred quid, i.e. $150. Bear in mind that with unified GDDR5 memory, you'll need at least a 2GB graphics card to get close to what a PS4 can use.

Then you'd need eight gigs of RAM, which runs for about £50 ($75). And do you think your five year old core 2 duo will keep up with modern consoles? What about your old 32-bit operating system? That won't cut the mustard, you'll have to pay the Windows tax to access those eight gigs. Then you'll need a new PSU to provide the juice for all those new components.

If you think you can put together a PC comparable to the new consoles for £270, then you're fucking deluded.

I'd say that Nintendo's biggest threat is that most people who bought the Wii are now playing tablet/phone games whilst the Wii collects dust.