Added horsepower doesn't just mean better graphics. It means better AI, more characters on screen, more reactive and interactive environments. It means an experience unlike any other. I love how people equate better hardware to "you just care about graphics." If better graphics didn't matter, top-down GTA games would…

I could see that happening, I mostly stream stuff and only own a handful of blu-rays. I don't think it's as big of a deal as DVDs way back in 2000 when the PS2 launched. It's nice to have, but the built in Smart Tv-esque features are probably a bigger draw nowadays.

To subsidize licensing fees, they could easily make a remote that was required for Blu-Ray viewing. Revenue from that pays licensing fees. That's how the Xbox got around paying licensing fees for DVD back in 2001.

Terminator joke, matrix joke, inception joke, period.

Women that have abortions generally don't need a reason - they likely don't give a shit in the first place. That's why I guess most of them feel relief.

It's obvious that her spouse was cheating with his late night gym excursions. Seriously.

Right, but having the convenience of newer movies and the low price makes me consider the whole laptop-tv thing to be worth it.

Those numbers also assume excellent economic growth and hiring. It's an absolute best case scenario, not even remotely realistic.

It's good to have an HDMI cable. You can, like, plug it into you laptop and then *GASP* your TV! Eliminating the need for a set top box. A wireless keyboard with integrated mouse runs $30 on Amazon.

This better not suck after five years of development.

I predict another Nintendo console in 3 years unless it finds a very profitable niche amidst child gamers and convinces enough core gamers that 720p Zelda is worth it.

Yeah, that'll probably work with the Xbox loop. Fun fact: core gamers spend more and make up the bulk of the revenue. Microsoft has no choice but to cater to us and they just built another studio to handle AAA next-gen titles in Canada.

Oh no, I know. I've got a great PC as it is, but people push consoles and those first few games that take advantage of the hardware look very impressive. Then PC comes and blows it away. I think they can realistically put a GPU 10-12x better than the 360 and 16 x the ram at ~$400-$500 and sell it near cost.

Thanks for this - great song.

I know - I've got a GTX 580 and it's almost too damn big. However, the design changes completely when you build it right next to the CPU and have them share some fan-driven ventilation. I think we'll see something between a 7770 and 7850 but I can dream...

I would, that's how you create them jobs.

That much RAM costs $50 and the card can be had for $300 MSRP. Microsoft gets things for much less than that, and took a loss on the 360/unit at launch. I think they'll sell their next gen box for close to cost and $400/$500 could get you plenty of power. Rumors have it pegged at 8Gb of RAM and a 7000 series GPU with…

They better. I mean - just think how much horsepower it would take to get current games running at 1080p with decent anti-aliasing. 6x more powerful won't really cut it.

The multiplayer is the same shit. I played Blops 1 and did well in multiplayer, liked the single player. This game came off as too near-in-the-future to be plausible and with the same tired multiplayer.

It would be weird to call it anniversary at 9 years, but I agree. Call it Halo 2: The Best Damn Multiplayer.