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@DustinCanFly Curious to know why Sony backed away after working with him on death stranding. Maybe his newest game required vastly more resources? Death stranding wasn’t exactly a major seller.

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@thegameawards GTA 7

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@ArdentVision1 Performance is pretty solid

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@Polygon Slay the spire 2
Mewgenics
Resident Evil 9
Pragmata
Saros
Onimusha
Dawnwalker
Mina the hollower
Marathon
Esoteric Ebb
Nioh 3
Pokopia

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@Big__TeeJ The game is releasing on Series S. If it can run locked 30 on Series S then surely a 40 FPS mode is plausible on PS5 Pro.

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@Joni0xj @DustinCanFly At least you can carry your physical games collection forward and play them on next gen hardware. Otherwise your physical games are stuck to old hardware.

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@_MambaForever_ Imagine thinking any company actually cares about you lmao

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@RinoTheBouncer “All the way to” merely August 30th shows how unserious these people are about this issue. If you really cared, you’d sell your PS console and never give Sony another dime.

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@_Firehawke_ @JellifishPirate @Sony That’s not how antitrust law works. A company controlling its own hardware, platform, distribution and pricing is not inherently illegal. The issue is whether it has monopoly power and uses exclusionary or anticompetitive conduct to acquire or maintain it.

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@_Firehawke_ @Sony This is getting sad.

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@Chaosyn @wgardner83 @eurogamer “I couldn’t possibly have access to that” is just admitting you have no evidence. I’m not saying Sony never overrides publishers; I’m saying you haven’t shown it happens regularly. The filing proves Sony can set the final price, not that it routinely ignores publishers’ pricing.

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@Chaosyn @wgardner83 @eurogamer The document proves Sony can override the publisher, not that it routinely does. “EA could want $50 and Sony would charge $70 anyway” is your speculation. Show an example of Sony overriding a major third-party publisher’s price upward.

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@Chaosyn @wgardner83 @eurogamer Sony is the retailer and has final authority over the PSN price. Nobody disputes that. Publishers set the commercial pricing by proposing the wholesale price and suggested retail price. Sony isn’t independently deciding “Madden should be $70”. EA does.

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@Chaosyn @wgardner83 @eurogamer That’s not what the 2022 filing says. It says Sony and the publisher agree on a wholesale price, then Sony sets the retail price as the retailer. It does not establish that publishers just suggest a price and Sony independently decides what to charge.

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@wgardner83 @eurogamer Sony doesn’t set prices for the vast majority of games on their storefront. They’re set by the publishers and they all have massive incentive to price their games competitively as they’re competing with thousands of games.

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@DoesItPlay1 @kagatoASUKA89 Being sued and settling isn’t a ruling that Sony has a monopoly. Sony denied wrongdoing and the court explicitly says it hasn’t decided Sony violated any law. That case was about banning third-party digital game codes, not proof that PlayStation itself is a monopoly market.

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@kagatoASUKA89 @DoesItPlay1 A closed storefront isn’t automatically a monopoly. Sony controlling sales on its own hardware is platform control; to call it a monopoly, you still have to prove PlayStation is a distinct market and that Sony has monopoly power in it. “Only store on PS5 = monopoly” is not enough

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I like digital games

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@DoesItPlay1 This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how markets and competition work. You’re treating “multiple stores on the same box” as the only kind of competition. PS still competes with Xbox, PC and Nintendo for buyers and game spending.

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@RinoTheBouncer Do you like games or just the format?