Ok, I read the article and most of the comments, too. The overall tone of the article isn't all that bad, in my opinion. It's not all doom and gloom, which is kinda positive in a sense that it's not entirely negative :p
The real downfall of this and so many other articles is that the writers are just some of the most narrow minded "journalists" today. I won't call them fanboys of a system, they're fanboys of and within the self-proclaimed hardcore gaming posse, and they are incapable of seeing the world from any other perspective.
Needless to say, I think Engel's conclusions are flawed: he is cherry picking data to enforce his views and ignoring a host of other data leading to the opposite conclusions. On top of that, he doesn't even seem to care to check whether the data he uses actually backs up his claims or not. That's just incredibly lazy, and classifies the article as just an opinion instead of a journalistic piece of work.
