To be fair, security issues are pretty much a necessary evil in this day and age. In order to truly be safe, you'd have to give up online shopping completely and even then apparently you're still at risk of being defrauded if you use a credit or debit card (obviously you shouldn't be letting other people see you enter your PIN number though) in RL.

My credit card company kept trying shilling me on some expensive ass $20/month package that included identity theft protection, emergency overseas accidental coverage, etc. a year ago and I was like "no, no, no" and they were like "but sir, identity theft is a major problem if you do online shopping, online banking... blah blah blah." Sadly I have to wonder if maybe these banks have a point. These security issues these days are getting really real. I wonder if credit card companies and banks in the future will pull the "oops you didn't sign up for our theft protection services, so we're not going to help you get your stolen money back" card on us to cover their own ass and screw us over.

Even then... I mean, no one ever buys anything from PSN, and it still happened to them.

Fox news make the Daily Mail look like the pinnacle of the media

Sony dun pissed off the wrong people though. I don't know how the hell Microsoft is safe from their wrath after mass-banning a whole bunch of modded Xbox 360's though. Microsoft kinda put their dick in the hornet's nest too.

 Console  gaming will evolve. To what? Can't say I know. Something like OnLive maybe.

 Not to mention smart-phones cannot sustain the gaming market and there will always be gamers who look for games that they cannot offer but PC , handhelds and console can.

Fixed :D

Of course the future is Futurama's Iphone, a projector behind the eye and a speak being jammed into the ear.

You'll find that tech people are always in a rush to declare something "dead." You'll see things declared dead long before their time, or while they're still kicking. Next time you see a website or magazine article that says something to the effect of "10 technologies that are on their way out" or something, you'd be surprised

It's unique to the tech sector, and a good way of showing how you separate a techie from a gamer, or show more techie-minded gamers (who view device function as creating obsolescence in devices with fewer functions)

Your not thinking of the future right though. I don't see portable gaming the way it is now in 10 years time to be the same. Obviously people will miss playing games on a huge screen I mean most people spend thousands of dollars on a big theater system just to play there home console.

So think of it this way, a portable console you can plug in or preferably have some device that plugs into your tv so you can wirelessly access your tv to play the game you have for your handheld with amazing graphics. Then when you have to leave or sick of playing in the house just shut the tv off and continue playin on the handheld wherever you want. That would be the future of gaming.

PC gaming IS dying, as far as AAA titles go.  Flash stuff, and stuff like Farmville go on.  But large budget stuff has been absorbed by consoles.  Now, it is like if a genre can jump to consoles, it does that.  PCs still remain, as an entry point into the game business, but not the main platform for doing gaming.  Now, maybe the next wave of gaming devices may appear, like OnLive or something else, but gaming on the PC is way marginalized now, outside of a few niches.