Oh come on. Sure, they should’ve, but let’s not kick these guys now—they actually listened and made a change in a timely manner.

No. Most people are going to cruise with the default setting regardless of what it is, and those who do opt in will be a self-selecting sample and statistically useless.

If the data was anonymized I would agree that this would be an arguably valuable service with no real cost.

I don’t know for sure about this but I wonder if it had anything to do with the new privacy laws that were passed in the EU. Just recently I have been getting emails from sites where I buy my games and all of them have said that I have to opt in to share my data even though I live in the United States. It could be…

I understand the type of information that was on Facebook, as in addresses, phone-numbers, emails, political beliefs, family members, etc.

Well... yeah.

I... get removing the songs from any reprints of the game. I can even get behind any new downloads or sales...

I can’t really say any of the music from GTA 4 and 5 really stick in my mind. It’s all pretty forgetable to me. Unlike Vice City’s perfect soundtrack.

I think it’s less of an issue with Microsoft since I have no doubt all your stuff will still run on the next “generation” that seems to be their main focus now. With a PS5 though I do wonder if they will invest in backwards compatibility with the physical discs or even your digital library. They seem to be all over…

I think you’re warping history on what actually happened....

I doubt that. Sony tried something very similar with remote play with the PSP/PS3/VITA/PS4. It was cool playing console games on the go, but it never really fell into their ecosystem. Sony likes to make great first party game that push the envelope in graphics, sound, mocap, ect. Just everything that creates a…

I bought a 360 about six months after they first launched. I got my PS3 in 2007—and, to be honest, I never looked back (apart from Halo titles and Mass Effect; I didn’t have a gaming PC at the time, so I got my ME goodness there—that’s changed in the interim).

It was really Demons’ Souls and Yakuza 3 (and, of course, Me…

2020 makes the most sense to me. Next years marks the 25th anniversary of the original Playstation launch in Japan, but 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the worldwide launch of the system. Honestly I’m far less curious about when it’s going to launch, and much more focused on its capabilities. It’s utterly baffling…

Well, the Wii technically dominated the 360 era, it’s just that it faded so much near the end that people forgot the giant headstart it had...which feeds even more into your narrative given Nintendo went from dead last in the Gamecube era to way in front in the Wii era to even further in dead last in the Wii U era to…

2025 is absurdly late. Keep in mind that’s 12 years on the market. For a frame of reference, that would be like if Sony were still supporting the PS3 as their only console this year.

I didn’t get my PS4 until mid 2016 so maybe I missed something, but I don’t really recall the false fanboy hype for PS4. It just seemed like everybody was happy they weren’t going the XBox One always online route that Microsoft backed away from before launch.

I just can’t imagine Sony wanting to launch a new generation anytime soon. Hell, even 2020 seems early at this point, considering they’re taking all the names, selling gangbusters, the only reasonably successful name in VR (not a huge bragging point but still), and their only competition for best hardware is at best…

I know what you are saying, but this is hardly the same. In the Hulk Hogan case, Gawker barely had a legal leg to stand on.

that particular company is having a fairly bad last twelve months.