With bandwidth capping becoming the norm in the US, and that the US gov't. cracks down on copyright infringement much more quickly than in other countries that have a more liberal policy towards internet use, and respect user's privacy as well, this comes as no surprise.

Okay, without any actual statistical figures none of us have any God damned right to speculate on jack sh*t.

Firstly, we don't know if the U.K and the U.S.A are 6th and 7th and the only difference between the top ten nations is about four or five guys.

Secondly, HOW? How do you know this? Did you take torrent websites? What about usenet? Or websites like rapidshare and megaupload? Do you know how much of the world's piracy is done on websites like that and you're telling me that out of every single file uploaded onto megaupload with names like DAO.rar or rld-c2.rar that you know the nationality of everyone who downloaded those files?

Thirdly, who gathered this information? How reliable are they?

Fourthly, people pirate for reasons that simply can not be reduced down to an equation that focuses on nationality, this is the case with most things in real life. If you think that a phenomena like piracy which exists across a massive mulit-cultural communication device like the internet without borders, a place of anonyminity and the ability to detatch oneself from any sort of responsibility, can be categorized into nations and it will provide any sort of real insight well then I'm sorry, you're an idiot.

Oh Italy is in the Top 5. Shame on my country :)

what,wheres fckin Malaysia!!!!

All you have to do is look at NPD every month and you'll come to one simple realisation: Americans BUY games. . .ALOT. How do you think they have single handedly managed to keep 360 not only affloat but still ahead of ps3 after 5 years??. They buy games. Simple

Where's the source for this? It doesn't show it in the article.

But if it's true I'm more suprised by China than the others simply because I didn't think they'd be interested in western games.

this has a lot to do with their own countries enforcement on pirating and sharing files.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau