@GamerMani Maybe the service itself hasn't been hacked (completely debatable, it has certainly suffered from the denial of service-type hacks that this article talks about, but hacked in the same way PSN was last year, not that MS has admitted to) but plenty of games that run on the service have and continue to be hacked today. There is an entire "sub-industry" of console hackers worldwide who's only goal is to find new and interesting ways to cheat at all console games, regardless of platform.
Wrong. You might own the disk the game is on (some people will debate that), but you have only ever licensed the software itself, you don't own it in the least (read an EULA sometime, you might be surprised); the disk and the software on it are legally two separate things. This is the basis for all the arguments about used game sales. Since the software on the disk is not owned by the people selling it, only licensed to them, but still owned by the publisher, they believe they are being cut out from sales and profits that are legitimately theirs. Why software is considered exempt from common sense that applies to every other retail product out there, I don't know, but that is the way it is. All digital distribution has done for us is change the medium used to deliver that license software to us; instead of a disk with files, we get a download with files... which we can then burn to disk, if you want to keep a backup, as long as you don't buy from DRM-laden distributors like Steam, Origin, etc.
Because stories about secure, stable game companies are such big news (sarcasm). No one actually writes news stories about companies that are just doing their jobs, are not hugely in debt and can still pay their employees because that is not news, that is the norm. When you only hear the bad news about the gaming industry, you get a warped perspective on it and a couple of companies having issues does not mean the dozens, if not hundreds of other studios out there are perfectly secure places to work. As a social worker, you should have more than just "suspicions" about an industry or what you read in a handful of news articles, especially if you are going to be giving others advice about that industry.
@Mega-Tom Uh, I believe the Xbox 360 also has a 5400 RPM drive. At least one of the hard drive models used in it are the Western Digital Scorpio BEVS series drives, which are only 5400 RPM. The only real difference between the PS3 and the 360 drives is the 360 drive is easily removable.
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