Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices

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• Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, absolutely. Companies like Sony, Microsoft and especially Apple would rather pay huge monthly fines than opening up their platforms.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The “huge fines” aren’t huge enough if they can continue to be fined and still make a profit.

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    • Noerknhar@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microsoft is going in that direction now, thankfully.

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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Kanzar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • afansfw@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Assuming they are forced to open up their platform, I’m sure they would be required to make changes to make it possible for others to use it.

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• Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish it covered how they went from selling cards giving time for PS+, to requiring mismatched currency cards for PS+.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait what? I’m mostly steam now so I’m out of the loop. What the fuck…?

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t get how Apple has to open their shit up (although they’re certainly dragging their heels over it and sulking like a toddler) but Sony, MS and Nintendo don’t.

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  • lustyargonian@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Microsoft seems to be preemptively doing that already.

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    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not because they’re required to, but because their console platform is dying lol. I mean, I welcome the changes, but I’m sure long-time Xbox users are not as happy with it.

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• Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…?”

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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