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Sony fails to stop $7.9 billion lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices from going to trial (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you imagine how much better everything would be if we didn't allow monopoly play stores on our computing devices?

One argument people say (especially in Apple camp) is that centralized app store is convenient and high quality but that quickly reveals itself to be bullshit in practice. Playstation store is an absolute joke that could be replicated by software engineering students. It barely works and has zero features past 2 paragraph descriptions and some random screenshots. Now, look at open platforms like PC - Steam is by far the best app store on the planet, no contest.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendo store was a nightmare. I could not for the life of me figure out how to unsubscribe from their stupid Nintendo online thing, thought I finally got it, still got charged, ended up having to remove my credit card info from my account to get them to stop stealing from me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

sounds like a feature to me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing with Sony though, is that people buying a ps5 with no drive already knew they would have to purchase games through the ps store. They chose to get a diskless system. Console makers don't make their $ off selling systems. They make it off game sales. If they don't get those, they aren't going to make a system that goes for $500 when a comparible PC to game on is a lot higher in price. PC's are sold to make money on the PC sale. Consoles are not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah no. If sony can't pull this off somebody else will. We don't need to protect mega corporations when the demand for this is massive someone else will gladly swoop in and take the piece of cake. Steamdeck already showed that you don't need vendor lock down to make a successful product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then somebody else will? Buddy, you think the only other two console makers aren't doing the exact same thing? Hell, Nintendo is worse than Sony on game and game store control. No game console makers allow for third party app stores. The closest you're getting is buying a PC.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah man modern consoles are just gimped pcs. There are thousands of manufacturers and hardware developers that would love this. You can already see this happen in saturated and captured market we have today with Asus Lenovo and Nvidia making their own handheld consoles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You skipped over the biggest handheld PC maker of all. Valve with Steam Deck.

But once again, all of those are PC's. They're not game consoles and thus none of them restrict what you can put on them. You'll also notice that Steam Deck is the only one that has good gaming capabilities with a price around $500. You know why? They own Steam and even though you aren't forced to do it. Most PC gamers buy their games through Steam. So Valve didn't go into the handheld market to make a bunch of money selling hand held systems. They did it to make money on game sales, just like a console maker. That's why there's ten fold more Steam Decks that have been sold vs all the other handheld combined. Because all the other ones that give a good gaming experience are hundreds more dollars, because those makers like Nvidia, Asus, and Lenovo actually do have to make their profits off the hardware sale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah man I think the market here is way too big to not win if there's a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What vacuum? Almost all games are cross platform. Portable and non portable is covered. Where's a vacuum?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

"Looks like we can't bribe our way out of this one boys" Sony, probably

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Sony tried to block the case, arguing that it was "flawed from start to finish," but the CAT has just granted approval for it to go to trial. However, the tribunal did stipulate that anyone who made PlayStation Store purchases after the case was filed last year should be removed from the proposed claimant class.

As if we all knew the details of Sonys deals and price cut of game sales...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if we'll be able to make claims for this lawsuit??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You'll probably get a coupon for $5 off your next Playstation store purchase of $100 or more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Won't this fail the same way Epic failed against Apple?