How about a console that I can personally upgrade the RAM, graphics cards, and Hard discs with plug n play hardware?

@SewerShark: Totally agree, the best games don't come out until late in the lifecycle, when it isn't about devs struggling to learn the hardware, but instead about making it sing as best they can.

@truthtellah: (corrected because I am an idiot):

@AndrewRyan: The Playstation and Playstation 2 say hello. So does the NES.

@emag: If they are launching in late 2012, then we can expect to hear something official from Microsoft by e3 this year, we would already have leaks from hardware manufacturers over specs and components, and dev kits would already be in the wild.

@wack0br: Agreed. I'm hoping this gen of consoles is remembered for more than just motion control gimmicks and shooters. There have been relatively few truly amazing, truly unique games this generation, just lots of iterations on tried and true mechanics being copied by every dev team on the planet.

@Eggyhead: D0 you own a smartphone that already does all of that stuff? If so then why bother?

It's bad because, regardless of the gender being portrayed, it's just lazy.

@IamTheS: I had thought that karma for Pearl Harbor would have been the two nukes we dropped on an almost completely civilian population.

I'm increasingly wary about how achievement mining has changed my gaming habits.

Very true. I am wary of anyone who says games need to be more like movies or books or whatever. There are lessons to be learned from how those different media are successful, but games are games at the end of the day- and need to remember that.

I lie about how much time I've spent playing Elder Scrolls games. Not to exaggerate mind you, but to keep from looking like a total loser.

@DukeOfPwn: To each their own I guess. Did you play it when it came out, or several years later?

@Sean Thomas: Yeah, I mean: I can tell the texture detail is raised on the PS3 version- but at the expense of warmth and contrast.

I read this headline and just assumed that this was going to be another story about 3D.

Just blessed with the curse of honesty, and zero need to sugar coat my opinion.

Oh, and sorry for the rant!

I think you are unintentionally making his argument for him.

@Heath Doolin: Thoughtful post. Well said.

A cinematic mood teaser that has nothing to do with the actual game itself was misleading?