October 2015 NPD Thread! Everything is in the OP!

[OdinHades]

Baryonyx said:
Everyone is celebrating the wealth of a corporation, which doesn't pay taxes at all and due for it's high inflation, your economy takes a hit and your country is sinking deeper into despair of bankruptcy.

You all are celebrating your own downfall and you are proud of it.

Sony is doing the same, but USA's economy isn't their problem, i am sure Sony pays their taxes and helps Japan's economy as we speak.

When the world ends, it doesn't end with a boom, it ends in celebration.

If you think i might be over-exaggerating, it's not my fault that you haven't paid attention to anything except gaming.

Oh please, it's globalization. Everyone screamed for it, now you have it. The US does suffer, but Ireland is more than happy to take 12.5 % of the income of Apple, Microsoft and so many others. Maybe the US should just think about lowering their tax rates. That said, taxes are one of our smallest problems when it comes to financials.

About Sony helping Japan: I can guarantee you that Sony uses every hole in the tax system it possibly can. They don't have the problem of bringing home a shitload of money though, because they barely have any money! =D

If Sony had 150+ billion dollars cash lying in Ireland you can bet your ass that they would keep it there. Why should anyone in their right mind do something else? To be a better person? To save the planet or something? Give me a break. Like governments would do anything good with that money. The german government pays billions and billions for the Eurofighter and some more billions for weapons that don't even work as they are supposed to (G36). They pay billions and some more billions for weapons in africa and are seriously wondering, why the people down there are using them to kill each other. They save banks with billions of euros, although those banks brang us the economy crisis in the first place! And you know how they pay for those billions? With credits from the exact same banks they are giving the money to! It's crazy! All the while the budgets for education and science get cut. Yeah, who needs ITER, screw fusion energy, we have ridiculously expensive wind and solar energy which we have to get out of the net when it's too hot or windy, so we pay the polish money for them to take our energy! And then we have to pay money for energy from french nuclear reactors when there isn't enough wind or sunlight. Ain't that the perfect solution for any energy problems? And you expect me or anyone else to give our money to such mad persons? I don't think so, sir.

Topic: It's nice to see that the console battle is still interesting in the US at least. Next two months of NPD should be really exciting!