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You are talking about a single sentence in an entire article of things Carmack said. The submitted decided it was the most interesting thing, and the Slashdot editor decided it was also interesting, and as a result... here we are.

I can't imagine anyone seriously thinking Carmack saying "computers are going to get faster" is particularly insightful. However, we live in an age of soundbites; this one appears to only be on Slashdot because it's just an utterance of someone that is held - for excellent reasons, in my opinion - in extremely high esteem. I agree this statement is not very interesting or noteworthy, but to berate Carmack for it like he was getting up and making a bold Kurzweil-esque prediction when it was merely a sentence in a stream of consciousness-dumping about the topic of mobile gaming seems somewhat unfair.

I think a better question is why they were asking such banal, boring questions. "Mr Carmack, do you think mobile gaming will be a big deal one day?!@"

Maybe they don't realise Carmack thought it was such a big deal back in 2005 that he made DoomRPG and has written extensively about his experiences working on other mobile games - including their next generation title Rage. Carmack and id have invested pretty heavily in mobile gaming, which is pretty obvious with even cursory research.

Yes, they really do advertise it as "$1.99 per month, billed annually". http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/08/06/id-introduces-two-quake-live-subcription-packages/ So 12 months or nothing, buster.

How was that a PC versus console argument? If anything, it's a "play an old game that can run amazingly well on nearly any PC" versus "emulate a game ported to the Xbox without taking advantage of the capabilities of the Xbox360" argument. By the way, is it really as slow as they say?

I don't care about any "console versus PC" teenage crap. I just prefer to play games on the whatever system they run best on. (Which is usually the one they were designed for.)