Wow, that's what I call being an asshole. Instead of doing a lick of research, you point out my lack of bibliography and insult me for making things up. Bravo.

You really are condescending.

"still, beating hearts"

I don't hear from console master racers on Kotaku, but if I did, I'd be disgusted by them, too. Kotaku is driven by console flame wars and PC master racers.

You don't really get anything I'm saying. I'm not talking about technology here. I'm talking about demographics and cash money.

That's my whole point— PC master racers think that the world would be better with only PCs and consoles actually hurt gaming, but consoles helped transform video gaming from a niche interest like tabletop RPGing in the 70s/80s into the most profitable and diverse entertainment medium in the world today. I play games…

So most of the big budget games are shit...that makes much more sense

Yup. I play PC games, but don't consider myself a "PC gamer," because "PC gamers" are the worst.

Nice concession speech. I'll accept it.

I do not think you understand some key fundamentals about economics, so I will leave the discussion with you thinking you've won and not pointing out that you made some absolutely ridiculous arguments like

why does it matter which one is more ridiculous, particularly when I'm not arguing either. I argued against mine and you proposed an equally insane idea.

That's a big if.

That is the stupidest argument I've ever heard.

A) I do not think you know what a question is

which question, again?

you dont seem to understand me either, and yet you feel comfortable critiquing an argument I didn't make.

This is a stupid argument says the guy who obviously doesn't understand mine.

Yes, get rid of all the 255million consoles and 310million people playing them and see how badly the games industry flounders. You wouldn't get the AAA titles on PC without consoles. 445million games played on consoles. 33million played on PCs. With roughly 7% of games purchased on PC, the gaming industry would be in…

That's Thorin? I thought it was supposed to be Brian Crecente,

What if I were to give you a second reason? Wouldn't that invalidate your claim?