For the company Sony filed a lawsuit again. As reported by foreign media outlets, in the United States, a California court accepted a new collective complaint filed by a group of gamers upset by the fact that the platform holder “artificially restricts the sale of digital copies of games for consoles. Playstation off-court PS Store“.
The new lawsuit in many ways almost mirrors previous… In particular, the document criticizes the decision Sony on the prohibition of the sale of digital codes and cards with digital codes for games for consoles Playstation… The disaffected accuse the platform owner of a monopoly PS Storethat deprives the audience of more profitable alternatives.
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In addition, a fresh statement of claim directed towards Sony, also mentions the console in a negative way PlayStation 5 Digital Edition with a missing disk drive. Selling such iron Sony deliberately creates conditions in which the distribution of digital content can be carried out only through its internal tools and platforms, the lawsuit notes.
“Users who are limited to only one source of digital content on PlayStation consoles are forced to pay extra for games, which simply could not be in the conditions of fair competition with the free retail market,” the lawsuit says.
Previously, PlayStation owners could buy cards with codes for specific games for their consoles at various sites or simply pay for digital codes on sites like Amazon. Today, on the latter, you can find codes for games for Switch and Xbox, but not for PlayStation.
Sony representatives to date, there has been no comment on the situation.
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