Some words for Cliffy, the shit you got right.
If you are going to a cabin in the woods, yeah it is probably better not to bring your console with you. While it would be nice if your console worked, your phone, your IPAD WiFi, and your laptop would also be pretty useless in such a situation. If you are going to a cabin in the woods, enjoy being away from all that bull shit.
Other things he was correct about is the evolution of gaming in general. The world is evolving, and concepts like always online are going to become the norm no matter how much we bitch about it. You do have always online games like the new Sim City, Diablo 3, WOW, DOTA 2, and the other huge sellers like COD, Halo, and Battlefield where the game itself is pretty bare bones without online play. Look at your IPAD and look at the top grossing games, they are mostly always online affairs. No amount of bitching is going to bring the good ol days back again.
No amount of yelling "Anti Consumer" is going to change how the industry works. Those examples that many dismissed as silly in regards to other industries are actually relavent. You need a gas station to get gas. You need electricity for your television. You need Windows to play most PC games. You can only watch newly released films at a movie theater, and then they decide you can watch it at a hotel, then they decide you can only purchase a digital version of such film, then they decide you can rent the film or get it on demand, or purchase it on Blu-Ray/DVD... then they take away most of those formats and you maybe get it on Netflix, or HBO. Eventually it may come to cable television, and on the rare occasion you are "Saving Private Ryan" and you get to see on the few "free" networks. Nobody bitches about that process which is even more crazy anti consumer then anything you see in the gaming industry. But it is so engrained that you deal with it, just as you will the future of gaming.