Said link is from a forbes article that links to the actual article...which is on a UK PC gaming website. Everyone knows that the UK and Europe is console hostile!

And note that the vast majority of that revenue is from MOBA's with DLC and MMO's with monthly fees, not actual game releases. In fact, quoting from the article:

In other words, PC gamers are cheap bastard MOBA, CS, TF2 and WoW players who do nothing but basically play ONE game over and over and over.

Consoles are the dominant platform for single player at least because that's where the money is. Console gamers are willing to spend money on games, while many PC gamers seem to care more about buying hardware for e-peen bragging rights and benchmarks.....and then spend their time playing one map in DoTA or de_dust in CS.

selection bias...we all know that PC "master race types" like you tend to be pushy about PC gaming and tend to "encourage" others to go PC and tend to only hang out with other PC gamers and know little of consoles in general And it's worse if said "master race type" is from the UK or Europe.

PC has always played second fiddle to consoles in sales in general, for AAA titles anyway. In general mindset, there are only two time periods it didn't play second fiddle.

84-86: From the Death of the 2600 to the rise of NES. The C64 was king, it was cheap and most people who had one used it as a game console and only knew enough basic to load games from tape, or used cartridges. It helped that the C64 is a game console at heart.

93-95: DOOM and it's clones arrive, these were games the 16bit machines couldn't do well. this period ended with the PSone.

It's had a bit of resurgence with the Indie/Kickstarter/early access thing, indie devs are often don't have enough money, or experience to do a console port right away. Sometimes the dev is PC partisan, especially if they're in Europe. But usually a port will happen.
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yes, but each of those discs was sold new for $60.

Imagine a new console game selling 500000 copies whether disc/download at 60 bucks vs 1000000 copies at 5 bucks.

How dare you disparage the mighty Flumph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

The Flumph is most certainly NOT a lame....oh wait...it IS a lame monster.

Sony takes mice and keyboard seriously with their Playstations. PS2's, PS3's and PS4's have USB ports for a reason. However Sony leaves it up to the developers to decide if they want to support keyboard/mouse and in what way. Requiring mouse/keyboard game control is probably not in their TRC requirements.

PS2: If a game has text chat or text entry, it almost always supports keyboards. That includes the settings disc for the Network adapter, and RPG Maker Keyboards/mice for game control is rarer, a few FPS's do like Half Life, FFXI, EQOA,

PS3: If a game or app uses the PS3 text entry widget, it automatically supports USB keyboard. Game chat, naming enchanted items in skyrim, signs in Minecraft, whatever. Keyboard for game control is rarer, again a few FPS like Dust514...but strangely, not the Orange Box. You can use keyboard/mouse to control the XMB.

PS4: like the PS3 there's pretty much automatic support for keyboards for text entry. There's at least one game that can use mouse/keyboard for game control in addition to chat and that's War Thunder. War Thunder also supports HOTAS, and uses the the PS4 Camera to use head tracking for view control.

but what if the old machine doesn't have it? Be just as difficult to get Trumpet Winsock on an old machine as get files off of it.

Start by uploading the public key to the keyservers and putting it here:

https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...

Don't worry too much about the WoT, though carry around your key fingerprint with you so if you ever meet a gpg user in person you can show them that, they can copy it and then get your key. And sign your e-mail.

Let me guess, you're playing a lot of early access indies and "indies in general" that's the only way to have a library that large...and with that many Linux games on Steam.

Sure the small timers can do a Linux build... in fact what they're probably doing is taking their PS4 version and ./configure make make installation-package or whatever for Linux (or vice versa)

But when it comes to games that aren't indies...well Linux is less well represented on Steam.

claws-mail

http://www.claws-mail.org/

This is what IMAP is for. Just access your gmail over IMAP as the nerd gods intended with multiple gpg-supporting clients on multiple devices. Even if you don't use gpg, using gmail over IMAP is the way to go, you don't get the ads that way.

Well, one can always use a gpg supporting mail client on an android device so that one doesn't need access mail insecurely over a web kiosk or internet cafe.

While I did generate at my first gpg key on a PS2 Linux kit, that's a serious edge case there with that vita statement, tepples. There ARE clients with gpg support for Android.

While the "user popup overlay thing" we usually get doesn't have the field to upload the key, I recently discovered you can upload them if you use this URL, which gives you the field to put it in.

https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...

I think Mail.app interfaces with OSX's built in "passwords/keys/keychain" feature to generate an S/MIME key if you don't want to use one of the comodo freecerts.

https://sendgrid.com/blog/end-...

I always sign my mail and follow a couple of mailing lists where gpg usage is not uncommon.

Well, it's "some" better. The gpg4win download contains everything a windows user needs because it includes the windows version of claws mail, which has gpg support built in; the windows version of Kleopatra and GPA, two GUI's for gpg.

And the gpg4win documentation is "somewhat" better than it used to be. At least the PDF version is,

http://wald.intevation.org/frs...

  the HTML version still has sucky navigation:

http://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/...

Thunderbird really needs gpg support built in by default, like claws mail does. Technically the gpg support in claws-mail is also a plugin, but the plugin is included by default.

I'm not sure what you mean by that? But yes, it's not optimal on Windows. For us Linux users it's much easier because gpg is usually installed by default and every thing we need is a "yum install" or "apt-get install" away