Sony fails to stop $7.9 billion lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices
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Consumer rights champion Alex Neill launched the suit against Sony back in August 2022. He accused the Japanese giant of breaching competition law by abusing its market...

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  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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.