Don't the giant blockbusters mainly fund the other big-budget films that were supposed to be blockbusters, like John Carter of Mars?

There's only so much room in the market for a generic AAA shooter. Release ten of them in a year and don't be surprised if only one or two of them sell anything. Most people who buy those sorts of games barely buy any games at all (some activision guy recently said as such), so going after the COD market is dooming yourself to failure.

The most difficult thing about that is getting used to the awkward keyboard controls. Also the game moves the goalposts in the middle of the game by telling you the object is to complete the game with fewest deaths after several levels, when you've previously been playing recklessly.

I can't believe someone is literally denying the system-selling ability of Halo being an Xbox exclusive. You may as well deny that the sky is blue.

Since when do you have to boot consoles off a CD? Last I looked the OS was on the hard disk and the system can multi-task.

So if you're using both pads to move the mouse, what exactly do you do for WASD? There are only six buttons accessible whilst using the pad, and you'll need them for shit like jump, crouch, reload, shoot, alt-fire, weapon switch etc.

Clicking the pad will ruin your accuracy.

Mario 64 was a terrible 3D platformer. The camera was an utter joke.

The only 3D platforming that is remolely competent is in the FPS genre, because you have a first-person perspective, eliminating camera concerns, as well as good air control.

Why should a high supply of labour be allowed to drive down wages, and put millions into poverty? How does this benefit society?

There's no evidence that increasing minimum wage would do anything but improve the economy and living standards.

Rockstar can't code for shit? They made a game with the scale and spectacle of GTAV run on a console with half a gig of total memory. A PC can't even boot Windows in that much memory.

How many PC games with recommended specs of eight gigs and discrete graphics cards don't even have a fraction of the details of GTAV? How many thousand dollar PCs are running the latest $180/year MMOs where all the NPCs just stand still, where there's no day-night cycle, where your characters don't get wet when they go in the water, where you get loading screens every zone, where clothes don't animate properly, where NPCs don't react to what the character does etc.

If Rockstar can't code for shit, then PC coders must be all fucking worthless. Btw the Steam survey has serious selection problems. It won't count the majority of PC gamers playing WoW or League of Legends or Runescape or Sim City.

Yeah let's hope technology has improved in over three decades.

There's no Nintendo GTA5 so what makes you think there'd be a Steambox GTA5?

Plenty of shitty shovelware on the NES. He didn't care if there were shit games on Nintendo consoles, as long as the third-party developers kowtowed. That attitude is what took Nintendo from market leaders to a very distant second as the TPDs went to Playstation and told Nintendo to go fuck themselves. And they've been telling Nintendo to go fuck themselves ever since.

That attitude from Yamauchi is what made the N64 a failure, what made the Gamecube an even bigger failure, and what's making the Wii U and even bigger failure still. Overnight, Nintendo went from being the kings of home gaming, to total obscurity (unless you think the Wii was anything other than a Billy Bass Fish moment).

They get away with it on handhelds, because the DS is like the NES: no real competition. If someone makes a console that does for handhelds what the Playstation did for the N64, then Nintendo are finished there, too. Then they'll be reduced to releasing Zelda and Mario clones for other companies' systems, and they can get used to being treated as Nintendo themselves treated TPDs back in the 80s.

The problem is that by the 90s, no-one in the West gave a fuck about Japanese arcade games. It was all about Tomb Raider, GTA, Gran Turismo etc.

What's safe about giving your car key to a random worker at a gas station?

Actually, this is the first generation that has similar memory to a PC. The PS3 launched with 256MB of RAM when a low-end PC might have 2GB, i.e. only 1/8th of the memory. The new consoles have 8GB when a typical gaming PC might have 9-10GB.

Although they've still found a way to ruin that with bloated operating systems taking up nearly half the memory.