I was a PS gamer since the PS1. Thousands of hours spent over decades.
I switched to PC (linux) late last year and my PS Plus membership lapsed in April of this year. I won’t be back.
Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices
Submitted 14 hours ago by Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/108433-sony-faces-another-class-action-lawsuit-over-playstation.html
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Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s claimed that in addition to exploiting its dominant position, Sony bans other potential app stores from having access to the PlayStation platform.
It would fascinating if this lawsuit forces Sony to open their platform to 3rd party stores. I am assuming they would be far more opposed to this than even any multi-hundres million euro fines.
afansfw@lemmynsfw.com 39 minutes ago
How is it even going to work though? The SDK is under NDA, there is no documentation and devkits are not sold freely, so random studios can’t just develop games for Playstation and upload to a 3rd party marketplace
lud@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Yeah, absolutely. Companies like Sony, Microsoft and especially Apple would rather pay huge monthly fines than opening up their platforms.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
The “huge fines” aren’t huge enough if they can continue to be fined and still make a profit.
Noerknhar@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Microsoft is going in that direction now, thankfully.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
To be honest that would just be the end of the consoles system as there is a reason Sony is selling the PS5 for so cheap.
As much as I understand why Apple shouldn’t be allowed to keep everything in the Apple Store, Sony’s situation isn’t the same.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
To be honest that would just be the end of the consoles system as there is a reason Sony is selling the PS5 for so cheap.
They stopped selling them for cheap as soon as they reached market dominance, so good riddance I say.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
No PC that isn’t a lower powered handheld can pick up and play like a console. Consoles are also, at least for a few years, the far more economical decision. It’s maybe changed now but I’d challenge anyone here to match a digital PS4 for $400 USD with a PC. It’s a tall order.
I am now a strictly PC gamer. It’s better for most things. But consoles still make sense to a lot of people.
Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
We sold our PS and now have a gaming PC hooked up to the TV.
Been a few teething issues with convenience issues like being able to turn it on from the couch, but the experience has gotten pretty smooth now.
Peffse@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I wish it covered how they went from selling cards giving time for PS+, to requiring mismatched currency cards for PS+.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Wait what? I’m mostly steam now so I’m out of the loop. What the fuck…?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I thought recent rulings talked about Consoles as a special class that was exempt from being forced to have third party stores. Was this EU only?
dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 11 hours ago
I don’t have explicitly what you’re looking for as I am not a lawyer, but game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device (despite theoretically capable of being one if appropriately jailbroken), and as such, prior case law for PC doesn’t apply.
iOS/Android tend to be classified a general-purpose computing device because it does all the same things a PC does (or did) and more. It plays games and does banking and plays music and browses the web and displays pictures and movies, etc etc. For some, it’s their primary and only computing device.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device
I know that’s the legal argument that manufacturers make, but it’s always been bad faith. Long gone are the days when a console does one thing: play games. Now they stream, have web browsers, social media, apps… they’ve been general purpose for many, many years. Being locked down anti-competitively is not an excuse for something to be locked down anti-competitively.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 57 minutes ago
I like to read the comments left by people/“people” on these types of websites, and all those comments were basically saying that this is a little overstepping since “there is plenty of competition” i.e. Xbox and Nintendo.
One of them even said something about “imagine DRM on like your tractor” or something like that, and boy howdy do I wish I didn’t have to create an account to comment back, “Like John Deere…?”