The Sony Geniuses do not like to mention any news about hacking on their site, simply because they believe its wrong. Developers put their sweat and tears into each game, and consumers believe getting it for free will benefit them in the future. Well thats how developers close down, when people make illegal copies rather than buying the game. However, this a different story that might help Sony stop the hackers in their tracks. Sony should hire hackers in the community, to help fix this problem. This could be done by giving them a job at Sony, or rewarding them a huge reward to stop the hacking (Say a worth while amount of money, maybe $10K, to stop hackers from breaking the PlayStation 3). Check out after the break on how this method could be in favor of Sony.
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
Doesn't Sony already have "hackers" preventing other hackers from PSN access?
we dont know this for sure. if geohotz were to say be hired from sony (which would never happen) he would slowly fade away from the forums and hacking community. There hasnt been any big name hackers that have disappeared from the hacking community yet.
I believe there was an A&E documentary called "Triple Cross", which perfectly proves why this is a BAD idea.
Ahh yes have Sony pay hackers to not hack is like laying out a Red Carpet to other hackers saying mess with our electronics and we will offer you a job for it.