facepalm.

Are you fucking seriously comparing building a new pc every so often with a single purpose gaming console? I use gaming on my PC for less than 10% of its time. I build a new PC every so often just because I need/want to have a new PC for all of uses that far outweigh any potential gaming impact. Hell I don't even consider much gaming needs. I never buy high-end GPU.

I'm not  PC gamer. I am only considering steam due to its often very cheap way to buy games that do not come on Nintendo hardware. So for those games like Civ or humble bundle deals, etc ... I can do that.

Granted, as many know I am trending to walk away from PC completely for Chromebook. So if that does happen, then yes Steam will be gone too unless its opened to ChromeOS at some point. With SteamOS coming, its unlikely... and while I've contemplated building a steambox... I am now certain I never will.

Well going by your google doc link, outside 3rd party games from 25 years ago, your scope in 3rd party game seems extremely limited to just majority EA franchises and franchises who new releases will most likely not grace the Wii U.  I mean if you have played more 3rd party titles over the course of the 25 years them I can somewhat (not really) see your point but you have been a majority Nintendo guy all your life so you saying what you did in the OP was not even warranted, you were most likely not going to by another console anyway (as you mentioned giddily when you created a thread about selling your PS3).

So expansions are a good thing when Nintendo does them, but greedy when everyone else does it. Lots of double standards in this thread.  

So expansions are a good thing when Nintendo does them, but greedy when everyone else does it. Lots of double standards in this thread.  

You said:

"It may only be very limited 3rd party games that are not on Nintendo consoles and I will always own a PC, so I'm not also putting out money on additional hardware."

But if you don't even use PC to play games, I don't get why you even brought up PC in the first place, and if you do play on PC, it doesn't matter that games aren't the reason you upgrade it Either way, you still upgrade it and you still play games on it that require an upgrade compared to whatever PC you owned before.

No. I didn't say that. My point on 3rd parties isn't true expansions such as map packs. But day one DLC, new outfits/characters in fighting games, etc.

A map pack a few months in for $15 for an FPS is a good value. A day one DLC that unlocks a couple maps already present on disc and or unlocks characters in fighting games, pisses me off.

No that is not the same.

Pikmin3 was wholly new content.

Most DLC out there is a new character in a fighting game or an additional map that is already on the disc, etc. Big differences.

In 1995, yes it was true DLC and wholly new content. The cases where and FPS gives you a new set of maps, is wholly new content. But that is becoming far less of an occurance.

EDIT: Also NSLU is a complete different gameplay mechanic. Luigi's movement and jump is a lot different than Mario's and that creates a far different experience in a platforming game. Plus the limited time makes the difficulty to complete the level higher. They are very much different.