Well...

... although it's disgusting these bugs take so long to fix, at least they do finally get done.
There are plenty of us out here who still play the old games.
Personally I only recently stopped playing Total Annihilation, and that was only because I got Supreme Commander. However it's still on the hard drive, and could be called up at any moment.
Plus of course it's lovely to see how these old games play when they're being pushed along by quad core CPUs and monster video cards with more gusto than the designers could ever dream of when the game was released.
Resolution: Max
Texture quality: Max
Shadow detail: Max
AA: Max
Smug mode: MAX!
:-D

Bug free? Meh.

"At least gamers on those platforms [PS3 and Xbox 360 ] know that they won't have to wait upwards of 12 months for a bug free gaming experience."

Oh really? Try telling that to anyone who lost all their cars in GT4 because they tried to play from a backup of their gamesave. Or anyone who lost a gamesave in GTA:VC because they saved in the ice cream garage. et cetera.

If patches are easy, programmers get lazy and nothing works till SP1 or even SP2; if patches are hard, they simply never get done.

Either way, we lose.

ATI is dead

ATI is dead because AMD killed her

There is no real competition for Nvidia out there