Apparently some lawsuits have started on Sony’s potential price-fixing of all games on their platform since they’re now the only retailer. Before anyone gets excited, these are probably going nowhere, but it’s neat that something is happening. The idea seems similar to the Epic vs Apple/Google lawsuits.
Isn’t this the same line they used with Steam?
Can’t you just… buy a different console?
But what if you already bought a console? It shouldn’t be held hostage by Sony selling games at 100$ in the future. A PC without Steam is still a PC.
This is a feature they’re rolling out, specifically with an eye towards the PS6. As far as I’m aware, that console hasn’t even been released yet.
If Sony is retailing games for $100 on their new console, that would strongly dissuade me from buying the console.
When the PS2 released, it was a cheaper blueray player than the current iteration of retail blueray players. People would buy the console just to watch movies.
The direction consoles have gone make them more like PCs with a home entertainment configuration than video game machines with some extra bells and whistles.
Tbh, I think Valve needs to design an addon for the Steam Machine that’s a blu-ray player that hooks onto the side or bottom, and add support for running blu-rays from Game Mode. It wouldn’t require any extra ram or storage, so it wouldn’t fluctuate in price but add value
Congratulations, you just invented Sega CD.
PS2 was a cheap DVD player, PS3 was a cheap Blu-Ray player, but your point stands.