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

It sounds like Sony really doesn't want customers at all any more.

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

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

They're saying this because they know they can wipe their asses with customer complaints since those same customers will happily buy a ps5 if it meant playing gta6 at launch.

And they're probably right.

But I'm doing my part by not buying gta 6 until pc release and it's on sale.

The first few paragraphs basically describe a movement within Japan because entitled (mostly middle-aged and older men, but not exclusively) fuckheads were screaming at staff, forcing them to prostrate themselves on the ground and apologize, and even becoming physically violent. Signs have been up for years about physically abusing station staff and it has continued from there. Just to give some cultural background on that one. Fuck Sony.

What a joke of a company.

I don't understand... If they want so badly to stop being a business, why don't they just quit? 🤔

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

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.

I honestly cannot believe that despite Microsoft's fuckups with XBox that instead it's PlayStation losing the Console War harder.

Legal action to who? Their users?

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.

Fuck off, Sony.

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

Is Sony getting lolcowed?

I've been using Sony products my whole life, not anymore. Sometimes you have to have principles.

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.

Wow....

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

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

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.

You deserve it all, Hideaki Nishino.

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