What baffles and irritates me most, really, is the proposition that consumers are to blame for the mega-budget graphics arms-race predicament. And not just on a collective level. When I read that thread, same with the used-market arguments, it's like I'm supposed to hang my head and admit that I, individually, asked for this.
Like fuck I did. I have watched videos of porn starlets being talked into triple-anal, but I am just completely stunned by people's acceptance of the notion that we consumers have somehow enslaved these corporations.