The fact that they just did the most blatantly user-hostile thing, when they are in the spotlight suggests;
- They don’t give a shit about being evil
- They are tone deaf about being evil
- They are critically desperate to implement these user-hostile actions; enough to run the goodwill into the toilet, just to keep afloat!
Resulting in many going to GOG, Nintendo and Xbox.
Today on the news: Sony is a shitty company. Wait wasn’t that yesterdays article?
Apple: where is the line? -sees sony- anywhere behind that, got it.
Lemmy: the Gabe cube is too expensive and performance sucks ass
All gaming companies: let’s shoot ourselves in the foot in multitudes
Gabe: here we go emptying wallets again
I’d rather pay $1000 for the machine to play my games on than pay $1000 per game. 🤷♂️
Eventually everyone will get pushed back to Solitaire, Monopoly or Risk. They’ll soon discover that it’s way more engaging and fulfilling than the enshittified tech crap they try to pass off as entertainment nowadays.
Me and wife been playing Domino’s two nights in a row and having a grand time. I even mention that no matter what those shitty companies can’t take all types of gaming away.
my wife and i like to rotate between backgammon and chess
These consoles are truly just racing each other to the bottom. It’s actually impressive how dumb these decisions are in both quantity and quality.
Remember when Sony was massively successful by delivering what gamers want?
Not really, when was that?
PS1, PS2 & PSP era.
Tbf, PS2 sold itself at the time since it was both a dvd player AND a console for the price of one, lol
PS3… But at the last few years era (“It only does everything” era)
They absolutely cooked with exclusives that people wanted
I see, just before I got my first and only PS product, a PS3, cause money was too tight for a pc back then. Damn, I missed the golden years of PS!? :(
(EDIT: Oh no, that’s not true, I have a used DS5 controller next to me lol)
Looool, money was too tight, so the overpriced PS3 was the answer. Too funny. Thanks for the laugh.
Well, the be fair, I got it (barely) used so it beat buillding my own PC at the time, but you are right, if you know what you’re doing and count the price of games, PC is a no brainer!
I mean, I personally view the start of the PS3 era as part of that same golden period - but it was also the time when we began to see the beginnings of enshitification also:
- Day 1 patches
- Day 1 “on disc DLC”
- Microtransactions
- $10 “online pass” for 2nd hand games
The launch PS3 was probably the peak of Somy giving the customers what they wanted; full hardware backwards compatibility with PS1/PS2 titles, affordable Blu-Ray player, built-in and upgradable HDD, heap of standardised IO options.
It’s just been all downhill from there.
Allowing updates is what made everything go to shit, imo. It should be like older consoles. Whatever you stamped on the disc is what you will be releasing. End of story. Shipping broken (or literally nothing at all, in some cases) is now the standard. Yes games are complex… they always were. if you could fix them after release, you can also fix them before. It’s just greed that keeps one from doing so.
Fuck digital distribution on consoles, fuck dlc, fuck updates. They ruined a lot of things.
Amen!
Targetted exploitation.
When they take away your options, it’s a sign of tyranny.
