{"id":8109,"date":"2013-02-22T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2013-05-22T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:00:56","slug":"the-problem-with-the-play-station-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-problem-with-the-play-station-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With The PlayStation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022213_0344_TheProblemW1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony recently unveiled its next generation console and the event has drawn a fair amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/majornelson\/statuses\/304396492314128385\">criticism<\/a> for failing to show what the device will look like. Russell Brandom wrote that there&#8217;s something far more important that Sony was missing: women.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony&#8217;s event lasted more than two hours and involved 20 different speakers. Not one of them was female.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just Sony. There weren&#8217;t any women during the launch of the Wii U, HTC&#8217;s phones, or anything that Apple has ever released in recent times.<\/li>\n<li>The problem runs deep \u2013 only 11% of employees in the game industry are female.<\/li>\n<li>Yet women make up almost half of all gamers.<\/li>\n<li>The industry is continuing to alienate women by abusing those who play games online or releasing ads like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grassisleena\/status\/304396563386621952\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If women were given a chance to truly shape the industry it&#8217;s likely that they would make new types of interesting and enjoyable games that the male dominated industry has yet to consider.<\/li>\n<li>There is some hope. Microsoft is expected to release the next version of its Xbox soon, and the Xbox development team has a high proportion of females.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the gender politics of games, some shocking examples of sexism in the industry, and why women don&#8217;t get the voice they deserve over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/2\/21\/4013500\/no-women-onstage-at-Sony-PS4-event-game-industry-feminism\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/2\/21\/4013500\/no-women-onstage-at-Sony-PS4-event-game-industry-feminism\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony recently unveiled its next generation console and the event has drawn a fair amount of criticism for failing to show what the device will look like. Russell Brandom wrote that there&#8217;s something far more important that Sony was missing: women. Sony&#8217;s event lasted more than two hours and involved 20 different speakers. Not one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022213_0344_TheProblemW1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}