As noted in the article, Xbox Live made $1b in a year and a half. Why is it foolish to believe that it could generate that much in one year, four years from now? And if you didn't notice, games have been highly recession resistant, DLC and digital distribution are on an upward trajectory, and small-ticket XBLA games, add-ons and video content aren't something that cash-strapped consumers are cutting back on, despite the economy.

And just because the economy is uncertain, do you believe that research firms should just shut down and wait until everything is A-OK before offering forecasts to investors and entertainment firms?

In your eagerness to call other people out on "foolishness," I don't think you really thought out your own points.

If you get a Big Daddy down to half of his health, then he kills you, for example, after you respawn in a Vita-Chamber, his health is still half, if I recall correctly. In other words, the game doesn't completely reset to a certain point when you die; it doesn't completely break the space-time continuum like a save point.

Okay, we all get it Dream. You like PC games. Now please rein in the PC fanboy stuff.

Man, it's weird to me seeing more avid gamers still down on the Wii, particularly recently with the releases of MadWorld and House of the Dead: Overkill. I'm having more fun on the Wii at the moment than any other console.

"This one is obviously juxtaposing the word quality with xbox360."

It's all part of a subliminal ploy to get people to believe Xbox 360 is totally awesome...

Actually, "Quality" in the headline refers to the level of quality (i.e. highly-rated) titles and number of quality titles found on the console, yet you seem to read it as "XBOX 360: QUALITY GAMES #1 A+ ONLY BY MICROSOFT, BEST EVAR". The conclusions that some people automatically jump to is fascinating, at least.

Oh, and (spoiler!) the PS3 and Wii headlines are already planned out to be the same. And you may (or may not, I don't know) be surprised by the results from the other platforms.