It may be on its way out, but that doesn't mean Sony shouldn't give its last-gen console a few tweaks to go out with a bang.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and CFO Lin Tao talked about the state of the PlayStation business and the strategy and targets going forward, including how they're responding to the tariffs.
Sony announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, and things are certainly looking up, despite a decline in PS5 sales.
If their profits fall next quarter, we'll probably see more price hikes. I can't imagine having to pay £20 a month for PlayStation Plus.
Decline in hardware sales.
Behind on lifetime sales and decline in first party sales.
Third party content and PSN came through to save the day.
Things will improve starting with the next Ghost game.
Hopefully a steady flow of first party content by end of '25
It already did by outselling the Xbox 360.
1. YES! YES! YES! That is what I've been advocating since the PS4 reveal event, if they were not going to put backwards compatibility in the PS4 then at least bring it back in the PS3. To this day I've always thought it was a stupid idea to remove that feature. My PS3 & PS4 are my main consoles right now and a lot of the time I get the itch to play PS1 & PS2 games, Bringing backwards compatibility back would make it very convenient for me and a lot of people too. Imagine having access to your entire PlayStation library with only two consoles. Not only that, but it would give the PS3 even more longevity than what it already has.
2. This is a possibility and would be a nice addition in a redesign.
3. I don't see this happening especially with the incoming PlayStation TV which sports a DS3.
4. I don't see thing happening either, especially when most people can access the internet with many other devices. Most people don't even bother with the PS3 browser, hell most people don't even bother with the PS4 browser.
5. YES!!! this is a must, the whole disc tray redesign was a bad idea.
6. Not sure about that one.
7. That's never happening.
8. Not sure about that one either.