Insinuating that Bill is a drug user? Nope. It was a simple figure of speech.
You'd be surprised what insulting and disrespectful things become common through usage. You'd have to be an idiot not to know that. (There's one.) "Retarded" has become so common that the insult has been drained of meaning, but it still is rather offensive. "I'd like some of what you're smoking..." insinuates that either the person is directed at is either a) stupid or b) on a drug that's influencing his mind. Just because there are some layers that obfuscate doesn't mean that what it implies isn't being said. And some people take great offense at being called druggies, either due to hatred of the insipid culture or having had drug problems with family or friends. Just like "retarded."
The PS2 wasn't as powerful as GC/Xbox, but it wasn't a full generation behind either. When the Wii makes a game with graphics as beautiful as Gears of War 2, let me know (that's everybody's cue to start bashing GoW2...come on, I know you want to). Hopefully somebody will make something like Team Fortress 2, since its art style would look great on the platform.
What does Wii having to make games that look as good as Gears of War have to do with what "generation" it belongs to? Ps2 never had a game to looked as good as Halo 2 or Resident Evil 4 or Metroid Prime or the Xbox versions of Splinter Cell. Does that mean it wasn't in the same "generation?" Was it then a "generation behind?" That doesn't seem to make sense.
Go look up some of the PS2's launch titles. Seriously, some looked worse than the PS1's. You can even see the difference in the PS2 versions of those games, particularly RE4 in which all the models were severely downgraded, the AI was turned off, the environment stripped, and the cutscenes that run in realtime on the GC were movies of the GC version running.
The only time the PS2 even approached GC and Xbox graphics were when the developer hunkered down and gave it a good effort. Then it passed for a mediocre GC or Xbox game. The PS2 did this a lot because it was the market leader, and similar things will and have happened for the Wii, particularly from Japanese devs now that it has been cemented as their console of choice. You can be cynical about it but, historically and without fail, this has happened.
And to end, arguing about generations is silly, because there probably won't be any more graphical generations left after this. MS and Sony are going to have a lot of trouble passing the j.n.d. for this generation to the next (that's "just noticeable difference" for those of you who've never taken a marketing class), meaning, without new HD resolutions to climb to, they will have to invest heavily in a graphics card that only barely makes a noticeable difference. Compare that to Nintendo, who only has to walk into a Fry's or a CompUSA today and grab an off the shelf graphics card that's 3 times better than the 360's for $200. I'm not saying graphics will never get better, ever, but the prohibitive cost and time of doing so has been greatly magnified to the point of actually hurting the companies who try. You think if Square Enix was going to make the decision today, do you think they'd choose to put FFXIII on the PS3, knowing it would take them an immense amount of money, 5 years to complete, and would launch on the loser last-place nobody-owns-it console? I'd wager no, because their sales have fallen 75% just this year, because FFXIII has sucked up all their resources to the point that they don't have any product on shelves. They'd choose Wii in a heartbeat and deal with a moderate boost in graphics over mega graphics and low userbase. They'd choose products on shelves instead of floating aimlessly on a dev schedule. That's why the smart side of Square Enix decided to put DQX on the Wii, and that's why a lot more things will be on the Wii in the future, and some will be in genres that have somehow been "banned" from the Wii.
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