But how many are they actually selling?

The only reason you're so gung ho on the PC now is because you can't get a console dev kit, and the bar for entry is lower on the PC. But that doesn't mean that people are going to buy the same-screen after-school multiplayer games you want them to buy...for the PC. Pc gamers don't want them and console gamers are happy with what they have.

Yes, somebody is paying....Americans . American's are subsidizing entertainment for the rest of the planet. And I don't think a bunch of eastern european freeloaders and a few American cheapskates on Slashdot should be convincing Americans to stop paying too, because somebody has to pay.

The various industries are profitable and still exist, but I don't think people should use that as a justification to continue piracy. It's still wrong.

I remember when people used DRM as an excuse to pirate music. Some music may be DRM free (I don't count Spotify and Pandora as being DRM-free), but the same people still pirate the music...just with new excuses about how Music companies are evil and artists don't make money.

And you know what would happen if video was DRM free. one Russian would download it and then upload it with a trojan to russianmafiatorrents.ru.

This stuff costs money to make.. If people want our games, music, books, movies, they should pay, and not enable piracy. If people can't afford it, they shouldn't pirate it and do without. Just because I don't have the money to buy every PS4 game doesn't give me the right to break into gamestop and steal copies I didn't pay for.

More likely it was because there were good games other than Dance game-foo, or party-game foo, or cute mii-sports pack-in-foo. Sure there's Zelda and Mario....but that's not enough.

And until the supposed steam machines reach the shelves, their vaporware. And besides, PS+ has benefits besides online play.

But you're doing that to everyone else.

Oh that's right, anyone who disagrees with you is an SJW. Social justice is a good thing buddy, maybe you're one of those "I've got mine who cares about women, minorities, gays, whatever", but that's just being selfish.

They aren't? Who runs the charitable organizations and social service organizations?

How am I shaming you? And if I was, might there be attitudes you should be shamed of?

What, so we should expect less from boys? That's part of the problem now...parents now aren't expecting or teaching their boys HOW to sit down and do quiet play or reading but focusing on their athletics.

How are conformity and group awareness feminine traits?

How are those masculine traits? Aren't grades themselves objective? Why does everything have to be a competition...we live in a finite world, shouldn't we be cooperating more?

You don't know girls very well to say that individual expression and achievment is a masculine trait. So all those girls who are valedictorians, or who win academic competitions, or get PHD's aren't feminine. Are you living in the 1950's mindset of gender?

If you're upset that men can't tell sexist jokes or come-ons all the time and get away with it...then get over it. I don't think fallacious accusations are keeping men out of education.

The numbers of male teachers are still higher than they were in the 20's, 30's and 40's. Men seemed to do okay in education then when there were even MORE female teachers so what's the problem.

You know what I think....all this fuss about education being feminized is just whining from guys who are upset they have to compete on a more fair playing field in a changed society. In the old days they could goof off in school and still make good money in a factory job that women weren't allowed to do. Now, they have to compete not just with women but with other groups as well. And they wish things would go back the way it was, when they didn't have to be polite to their "lessers", when they could pinch their secretaries, before feminism and civil rights.

Not going to happen.

What I want is online storage I can just mount to my filesystem, and move files over without the service wanting to keep the files locally because it want's to sync a local and online directory. Heck, I might even want to un-mount it sometime. Most of the time I don't need syncing or versioning, I don't mind if that exists as long as I can turn it off.

What is this, are you 20, living in a dorm/college apartment, and living in 1995? Do you really want to go to the hassle of carting around hardware, setting up networks, coordinating everyone's free time, just for LAN play in this day and age?

Japanese flavor may have mattered to the excessively japanophilic otaku...but they/we aren't as big a market segment anymore. Making PS4 development friendlier to US and indie developers has most certainly helped the PS4.

Shawn Layden is CEO of SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America) not SCE(i). SCEI is led by Andrew House. Layden is under him. SCEI's former head, Kaz Hirai, runs Sony as a whole now.

Which is a good thing, it basically means the gaijin are running SCEI now so we get a better designed console without a crazy arcane architecture and less of the "lets treat the bigger American market like crap and restrict SCEA from doing what's best for the American market and fawn over SCEJ" from SCE.

I have no love for SCEI when it was more "Japanese" in flavor. They're the reason the PS2 didn't get a retail release of the PS2 HDD and BBN.

Sounds about right.

Serious. Think about all the second/third worlders supporting piracy on Slashdot. The hungarians/romanians/russians saying they pirated everything and then complaining about how no one wants to pay for their own software they make so they're thinking about emigrating...but that everyone should pirate Game of Thrones because media companies who want to make a profit are evil.

Or the swedish game designers who admit to pirating games themselves, and tell everyone else to pirate theirs. Leaving the game development to be paid for by Americans.

It is a threat, people aren't paying for stuff they obviously want. Software, hardware, physical goods, doesn't matter, it's still taking something without paying. Even the Humble Indie bundles get pirated. People can go on how Sony or Microsoft and other companies are evil and information wants to be free and all that.....but really it's just a bunch of people who don't want to pay. And the more we as gamers tolerate and condone piracy, DDOS attacks against servers, the more things Sony and other companies believe they have to do to protect their stuff.

We might think it's no big deal when some kid pirates a few games....but what happens if that kid grows up and keeps on pirating. We've got adults bragging about it on Slashdot. In the old days it was "Sure kids pirate, but once they get a job they'll pay for games", but it's not the case anymore.

yeah right? has that actually happened? Do you really think that's going to happen? I don't think so.

And the consensus was that guy was a frivolous overly entitled jerk.

What shit? The only shit of that sort I see is thrown around by MRA's claiming that OTHERS are throwing it around. Sure there's always a couple of UK radfems still living in the 70's and spreading their stuff to the US, but they're getting older and won't be around for much longer.

But it's not less, why does it have to be less? Because Mr. epyT-R on Slashdot who seems to have a grudge against feminism/women/diversity in general, says so? It's not what the actual statistics say. Sure there's more of a fuss about the demographics now. The reason for that is because elementary teaching WAS considered purely women's work in the past, and in fact one of the few jobs women were "allowed" to do, now we realize we as a society goofed.

I had plenty of male teachers in elementary school, my father (and mother) had precisely zero. High school was 50/50. Maybe your area was not the norm?

considering that TFS said that TFH (The Fucking Hackers) started out by targeting Blizzard and later switched to PSN. and are now targeting Xbox Live. I think talking about Starcraft but focusing on PSN is wrong.

These jerks are targeting everyone. PC and console, Microsoft and Sony.

My reply is tongue-in-cheek, not serious.

Maybe they just didn't like the IBM PC and DOS? Maybe they preferred Apple or Commodore and the change to the IBM/Intel/MIcrosoft hegemony, drove them off?

Hell maybe it was the money. "Oh this C64 and 1541 isn't that expensive, I can even hook it up to the TV, I can learn about computers and there's even a $50 word processor"

"IBM wants me to pay over $2000 for a machine without a monitor....and it doesn't come with any software and the word processing package costs $249? I've got groceries to pay for."

That's not true, there are actually more male teachers now than there were when my dad (born in 1927) went to school.

There is no "toxic environment". The truth is, most men don't teach because they view it as a low paying low status job dealing with people "kids" they don't want to have to deal with. In other words. Men are more selfish.

There used to be more of male nurses/nurses aides. They were called orderlies. a bunch had been medics in WW2. A bit later times changed...and well... female CNA's were cheaper because men were paid more than women...it was just what was expected.