• America@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    Bye, Sony. I’ll be avoiding all of your products for the foreseeable future. Sony gaming just talked several other departments out their sales.

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    29 days ago

    Just get a PC at that point if its digital.

    Ask a PC gamer to make it as much as a console experience for you as possible if that is what you need.

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    29 days ago

    “No disc, no sale” or in the words of a wiser man: “Put the game in the box or piss off”.

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    28 days ago

    PlayStation ended with PS3 because that was last console that have not required PlayStation Plus to play online.

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      27 days ago

      I’ve always thought that moving to the internet was the worst thing to happen to consoles. Now they have all the downsides of PC gaming, with all the downsides of console gaming.

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      28 days ago

      They also removed other OS functionality after consoles went live and units were already sold. Glad I never bought one; it pushed me into PC gaming.

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    29 days ago

    They can do what they want, I’m not a member.

    AND I will NEVER be a member. Put THAT in your quarterly report. I’ve got a recommended filing location.

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    27 days ago

    And this is why I have no sympathy for game companies crying about emulation and piracy. Also there is NO reason to harass employees.

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    29 days ago

    The company also listed “forcing someone to prostrate themselves,”

    I have questions. Is this a bad translation as telling them to go fuck themselves?

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      29 days ago

      The translation is most likely correct and references a Japanese custom.

      Prostration is the gesture of placing one’s body in a reverentially or submissively prone position. Typically prostration is distinguished from the lesser acts of bowing or kneeling by involving a part of the body above the knee, especially the hands, touching the ground.

      In Japan, a common form of prostration is called dogeza, which was used as a sign of deep respect and submission for the elders of a family, guests, samurai, daimyōs and the Emperor. In modern times, it is generally used only in extreme circumstances, such as when apologizing for very serious transgressions or begging for an incredible favor.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostration

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    28 days ago

    Sony fully-embracing its enshittification arc.

    I have a lot of Sony gear; I’ve been really happy with the quality… but I’ll look elsewhere as they have been self-destructing as a company for a while now. I know their TVs are going to be crappier than they have been, because they stopped making them themselves. Probably the audio gear will be next.

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      28 days ago

      The first enshitification arc was them removing other OS functionality from consoles AFTER units had already been sold. It’s been a steady decline that is intensifying.

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    28 days ago

    Sony threatens to pursue legal action?

    Legal action has already been pursued, against them. And threats like these suggest it isn’t going too well for them.

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    28 days ago

    Those “protests” are actually pathetic. And . Is it this feels like Stockholm syndrome to me. They’re threatening legal actions against people they actually fucked over? Lol

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    28 days ago

    fuck em. the libraries of their older system are extensive enough that nobody really needs a new digital only system