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.

20 seconds would give any shoplifter or armed robber plenty of time to get away.

How does it turn itself on, if it's off? It surely needs power to keep check of the time so it knows when to turn the system on. Is there a special mechanism that flicks the physical switch at the back?

Team Fortress is not a Valve creation, it's just something they bought out, like DOTA and Left 4 Dead.

The percentage of people with a PC significantly more powerful than the new consoles is so small as to be not worth mentioning. The biggest PC games generally have pretty low system requirements anyway, you don't need dual Titans to play Dota 2 or WoW.

People buy Windows and Office out of obligation, rather than because they like it, they have to be compatible with everyone else using Windows and Office.

The Xbox is one of Microsoft's only successful products that consumers buy with a free choice.

Also unlike Nvidia they don't set themselves on fire, and the drivers don't break multi-monitor suport. After my experiences I don't know if I'll by an Nvidia card ever again.

That PC has no wireless, no blue-tooth, no controller and no blu-ray drive. On top of that, it's $130 more expensive and weaker specced.

So what you're saying is that if you spend more money, you can get something less powerful than a PS4, with half the components missing, and a bigger, uglier form factor, and no doubt higher power consumption, heat generation and noise?

Not to mention the PC will be quickly out of date, whilst a console gets more powerful throughout its generation.

Which platform is that? I'd be very interested to get away from the DRM-infested world of PC gaming, where Steam can block you from playing your entire game collection that you paid for, and stops you trading or selling games.