Sony must face a mass lawsuit worth up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims the PlayStation maker abused its dominant position leading to unfair prices for customers, a London tribunal ruled on Tuesday.
    • 佐藤カズマ@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ultimately, I suspect the entire model for digital game delivery on consoles will have to change as a result of this case. Not that those changes would be bad, of course (indeed, they’re sorely needed), but they will occur as a result of console manufacturers having to open up their consoles to…sideloading (not sure this is the word, but it’s all I’ve got right now)?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    The best thing about steam is you can buy keys from other sites, or even add incompatible games so they still showed up in your library.

    PSN won’t even show you the current price for a game you own because it would encourage users to wait for a slae.

    • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      The best thing about steam is you can buy keys from other sites

      The worst thing about those sites is in most cases it results in the developer being ripped off because the keys are either stolen or purchased using stolen credit cards.

      Countless devs have said they would rather people pirate their games than buy keys from those sites

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is true for a small category of sites I won’t name, but there’s also lots of sites that have a direct business relationship with the publisher. Ex: greenmangaming, gamersgate.