You are, aren't you.

If you can't stop being aggressive, then that is the correct way to approach you.

Valve is happy to discount their own games or give them away for free because they are now in the business of pushing games as a service and their own platform and, besides, their games are all pretty old anyway and have long since become profitable. While Steam has done a lot to revive PC gaming, it's tough to argue that everything is coming up roses. Sure, some individual developers have done pretty well thanks to Steam sales, but there is a growing problem with these sales devaluing games. Most developers can expect few to no sales unless their game is currently discounted and featured. So It's true that a single successful promotion can make an indie game an overnight success, but it also makes things increasingly dicey as the consumer mentality becomes that it's not worth paying full price for any game and developers are therefore less able to budget based on how much their game "should" sell for. I mean, shifting a million units at half price is a lot less revenue than shifting a million at full price.

There is a reason that some big budget games like GTA 5 only show up after soaking up all those $60 sales on consoles (at least, I presume it eventually will turn up on PC), and others like Red Dead Redemption never come to PC at all.

Then it's a Indie game, but if you asked Nintendo first if they want to publish your game and make a contract with them, then i would say it's debatable.

They said they funded the game but not explictly the development cost, however most of the total cost for that game was provided by Sony. And without Sony support that game would not have seen the light and got the success. Not any game used the kind of technical stanrdards for developing the title when heavry rain came.

I agree with you, this is what i mean too. Valve making the consumers to rethink about the game prices with their deals/sales which makes AAA games to face problems in future in 60$ pricing(even though development costs of AAA games will be higher than last gen). Everyone buys many games from steam sales but they wont play most of the games they buy at all due to their limited time in daily life its not possible for them play and money is wasted by consumer here by purchasing the game which he doesnt play at all. The consumer could have purchased the one game which he likes to play and more money could have gone gone to the right developer who the consumer thinks deserves his money because he liked the game. And the consumer will wait for similar deals in future and avoid buying the games at full price.

Where is the "I wait until they show up in PS+" option in the poll?

Why does it have to be all-in or all-out? Why cant there be ahappy medium just like it used to onthe ps1 and ps2 eras?

Because a game with good enough graphics and presentation to not get panned by reviewers and looked down by gamers that sells 1M isn't profitable anymore.

AAA Ps1 and Ps2 titles tended to cost 1 to 2 million or less. Today's triple AAA titles cost 20 million and up and actually the price of games is lower because of inflation. As well games in general don't sell more that much more than they did during that era. They cost 20 times more to make but games don't sell 20 times more than they used to, almost all games will not crack the 5 million mark. Inflation wise games should be $70-80 to be fair to developers. Developers are getting gipped by this model, we win by paying less but at the expense of the game makers.

Today's triple AAA model is financial sucide except for like 3 or 4 publishers who have to do annual sequels with re-used assets. (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc.)

You're missing the point, by balancing the retail and digital, they're trying to defy one of the amazing concepts of capitalism.
Capitalism when it's in full swing and there are no influences brings consumers more choice, lower prices and more convenience because of increased competition which also spurrs on more innovation.
There shouldn't be any help for the middle man, let them fail if they can't compete, when capitalism is working in full swing with no interferance, it will create more jobs as more competitors can enter the market.

As for AAA games not making great returns like they do on console? Well. PC games are more profitable to begin with.
For instance a PC developer if they so wished, can release a game on none of the major networks.
Wanna know how much Microsoft and Sony steal out of every game sold? You're looking at something like 30%, then they have to pay to have DLC and patches put out too.
For example EA sell their digital games via their own digital store origin on the PC, thus every game sold is 30% more money in their pockets, they don't have additional patches and dlc costs on top of that either, thus in turn more money trickles to the developer.
The consumer also pays (Without additional discounting) $10 less on PC than on Console for a new released game and the Developer can still end up with more money than from the equivalent sale on console.

As for PSN sales every week... Maaaaate... You really don't know what a sale is do you?
Steams sales discounts thousands of items/games all at once, remember Steam has more games than the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 and the majority of it is discounted, let that sink in for a moment.
That's then compounded by mid week and weekend sales.
You also have other sales pop-up all the time.
At this current time, 68 games/DLC/addons/stuff are discounted on Steam.
The Autumn/Spring Sale is only a few months away (Again, thousands of stuff will be discounted.)

Then you have other sales from Humble Bundle, Green Man Gaming, Gamers Gate, Direct 2 Drive, Gamefly, Origin, uPlay, Good Old Games, Desura, Amazon and probably dozens more, basically, if you're buying a PC game at full price, then you really are doing it wrong.
The consoles can't compete on the PC's heavy discounting because of the much larger amounts of competition, again, thanks to capitalism, there arne't any restrictions to appease the brick and mortar and that's the way it should be, it's better for everyone.