Forbes: PS4 is terrorist communication device

[jlmurph2]

Insidb said:

jlmurph2 said:

Talk about it with who? Were there accomplices? I don't think an organized attack by a terrorist group in multiple locations at the same time is the same as a school, theater or church shooting by some guy with mental problems. I don't really understand the connection between Xbox and school shootings in the first place.

Well, if one buys into the videogames lead to mass shootings in America, the next logical step would be to tie to the most used console and the console most used to play FPS games in the US. That console would be the XBox (X360 and X1), so it would have less to do with a peripheral and more to do with the offered content. In that case, it's a lot easier to say so-and-so shot up such-and-such and played this on that, as opposed to these terrorists may have used this to communicate about that. The former is a much more easily established and concrete link.

I think, in both cases, it's fairly absurd to overlook the very obvious and very real social problems that lead to each of these forms of terrorism. These sensational types of articles cast the gaming society in a very poor light, but, to quote Nightcrawler, "If it bleeds, it leads."

No, the next logical step should be "What games are these people playing". Which is what happens. It happens all the time with GTA, COD and I'm sure it even happened once with Mass Effect 3. It doesn't matter what console they're buying it on if the games aren't exclusive to that platform.