A group of enterprising gamers filed a class action lawsuit against the company Sony Interactive Entertainment – the platform owner is accused of creating an artificial monopoly in order to make PlayStation Store the only platform through which you can buy digital content on the console systems of the family Playstation… Writes about this edition Bloomberg…
The essence of the claim on the part of the plaintiffs is that two years ago the leadership Sony banned third-party companies from selling codes for digital versions of PlayStation games. If you want to buy a particular project in digital form today, you can do this only through the PS Store.
According to the statement of claim, the complexity of the situation is added by the fact that digital versions of games in PlayStation Store are often much more expensive than physical publications, so the lack of potential market alternatives only leads to additional costs.
“Sony’s monopoly allows the company to charge prohibitively high prices for digital versions of PlayStation games. It is not uncommon for a digital store to have a price tag that is significantly higher than a similar item in a physical edition available from a nearby retailer. Today, digital versions of games [в PS Store] also cost much more than they would otherwise be in a situation where there would also be competitive retailers in the market selling codes for digital products [для PlayStation]”, – the document says on the part of the plaintiffs.
At the time of this writing, representatives Sony The lawsuit was not officially commented on.
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