chad

Demand a refund!

All of these excuses are a red herring. This happens EVERY single console transition. Go back and look at the numbers. EA's only fault is that they should know by now that this happens in console transitions. It's a combination of a few things:

1) Price drops on 'old gen' games hit revenues. Go look at how prices have dropped lately on Xbox only titles

2) People buying new consoles spend so much money on the consoles there is less money for games. Wallets are depleted.

3) People wait. Rather than making investments into old gen games, people save up and wait for the consoles to come out so they can figure out which one they want.

Your analysis is way off. MS gains nothing from making software that only runs on highend hardware. The increase in size is due both to more features, more complex implementations of features (e.g., more eye candy effects for an old feature), and (most importantly) backward compatibility. The fact that Vista will run on a new high end Dell and a 10 year old piece of hardware is a bitch to do. That's why Apple's OS can be some much more compact. They don't focus on backward compat as much.

Let me guess. You use a Mac? Of course they are going to extend the security updates. How is this news?

Yea something is up with all of weblogs blogs. They're all sending multiple copies of posts. It's getting to the point where I'll unsub if it doesn't get fixed.

That's fine. I can wait. I'd rather them get it right than push out the product early.

The day I take my tech recommendations from an old balding guy is the day I give up on life and start wearing sweatpants.

Yea Australian's use rocket too.

Enough with the term "food porn" on this site already. Jeez. You would sound more sophisticated using a bunch of "ROFL"s and "1337"s