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Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I do have a strong suspicion that the end of the road of this type of move is going to end with an anti-trust case. Like, I don't see any way to avoid that.

You can't have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.

It may not be the US doing it, but I do think that some country is going to antitrust them.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 4 months ago

    My big problem besides the price monopoly is the lack of true ownership for digital media. It’s just expensive licensing that can be taken away or altered at any moment. If Sony gets his way, we are looking at a very dark future for gaming

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You can't have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.

    Didn't the EU, who have some of the strictest rules in that regard, rule that walled garden ecosystems are allowed in their case against Apple?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    they made the statement with apple but then decided the exact opposite with google. I think Sony will run into similar issues as google, but we will see

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