As soon as you're nearing the time when the deal is up, call a sales guy and see if you can work out another deal. You're not under a contract, so if you can dangle termination over their heads, you can ususally find some representative that will either lock in that price or reduce the raised rates a bit.

Heck, I can take out 10 pins with one ball half the time....

Where's your creative work to give to us?

This I agree with. Great looking game, but once you got past the novelty of the graphics and the nano-suit modes, it because really shallow. The story was not interesting, and the whole "uniqueness" of the aliens being associated with cold was only there to show up the shaders. It had no real impact in the game.

As opposed to firmware updates that brick the console? Things break and the updates that are suppose to fix the broken issues may break something else. That goes way beyond PC gaming. That said, I'm glad you're gone, as it's one less incompetent imbecile that posts on the forums about how it's always someone else's fault (when, in fact, the problem is between the keyboard and chair).

Sir, I would like to introduce you to either the VGA and3.5mm audio cable bundle or the HDMI cable. These two amazing products will allow your PC to connect to a large TV so you can, in-fact, sit on the couch. Now, I'll toss in a multimedia center keyboard w/ mouse, and you got yourself one lazy PC gaming experience.

Now you're backtracking.... Also, videos hyping a a new engine (Tech Demos) NEVER look as crisp as the actual game; seriously, that's like being disappointed that the game doesn't look the the pre-rendered CGI intro sequence or commercials. Give it up man, you got owned; man up to it.

So have video cards. The average consumer price of a video card is $200-$300. Even according to Nvidia, you can play Crysis2 at "hardcore" settings at 1680x1050 or 1080p with a GTX460, which is $150-$200. You made a stupid assumption just because they're marketing $500 end-all-be-all cards that you have to have them to be relevant. That is not fricken true. You can't compare the $500-600 bigguns to normal cards because they actually aren't designed for gamers. Those honkin huge cards are designed for universities and for power junkies; the Fermi architecture wasn't specifically designed for gamers - it was designed to push the GPU futher into the GP-GPU role with the aid of the CUDA package. It's just icing on the cake that they snooker in gamers along with the simulators. Both ATI and Nvidia are realizing that their workstation line of cards (where $500 is LOW END) is being eroded ever so slightly by the mainstream line. While your Voodoo2 was $299, the workstation card ATI FireGL was $599 in 1998; they both had different purposes, but those purposes have been blending in the newest generation of cards. If you want to know the true cost of ownership for the console, look to both the games and the peripherals. All console manufactures essentially loose money on console purchases because they have to subsidize them to hell and back to get people to buy them. Anyone remember that the PS3 was pushing $599 AT RELEASE? Look at the 360 controller...it's $40 in many places with sales to be a bit lower for the plain-jane wired controller. How many controllers do you have?