PS5 Price Increase Confirmed for UK, Europe, Japan, Canada, and More (Not USA)

https://kotaku.com/playstation-sony-lawsuit-digital-store-ripping-off-1849441245

Basically 9 million people bunched up together to sue sony cause they charge a 30% store fee on what you buy from their store even though most stuff on their store is exclusive to their store. Part of their reasoning is that sony has a monopoly on their games, which isn't untrue, cause it's their games, and also that it's too unfordable to get their games.

I disagree mostly but I also extremely rarely buy any game brand new at full price. From the article from kotaku: "While I’m sympathetic to how inflation makes it difficult for players to afford more games, I’m not sure if I would lump gaming together with a cost of living crisis. Paying rent is a necessity. Playing God of War Ragnarök on launch is not." I think this summarizes it up the best. Like you can't expect to get every game on launch. And $60 is not a big deal once a month I'd say. At the same time, games used to cost more in the past, but the consoles used to be way cheaper if I remember right. At the same time, it's a lot easier to make games nowadays, and these new devs are lazy af, and they release incomplete af games, so I do think that games should be around $40 on release, just because they bs you with dlc afterwards.

I think in general everywhere across the world people's wages are just too f'd up. Some people make too little, some way too much, even if you disregard the 0.1% or 1% or whatever. Things need to come a lot closer. The person who makes $100k a year can easily afford every new game on release so they of course have no problem with this. The person making $20k a year can't afford every new game on release and it would probably be a mistake to buy any new game at full price with that wage so I think it's reasonably understandable why they'd be upset and feel the situation puts them in an unfair spot. We couldn't tell every single person to just start making a million a year, it's literally impossible.

To that degree I definitely support the people upset in the uk, except that they should be upset at the world leaders for not putting any standards, barriers, etc. The unfortunate part, barking at the leaders is literally useless because they make a lot of money, so why would they ever want to change their situation and make it worse to help other people. It's not like they're good people, right? The whole standard is that once you get in a good position you don't want to return to where you were before or make it any worse so it's not really surprising the human nature is to turn a blind eye.

Big fan of this quote from Men at Arms: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.[1]"

Yeah from what I read that's exactly how they were labeled too, basically meaning that if they wanted, they felt comfortable charging even more, and knew that people would need to buy food, and other basic survival and hygiene items regardless of what the price would be, but out of their "kindness" they took those "profit losses" because they were thinking of the struggling people. Wouldn't pay them a livable wage and give them proper vacations and health benefits tho, because that'd mean treating them like humans. The richer they are, the more disgusting they become if you ask me. It goes hand in hand with the billionaire that donates $1000 to a charity, like what a good guy. that 0.0000000001% donation must really make them wonder if they're gonna make it next month and how they're already struggling to think how to recover from the loss.

Sorry I actually didn't understand what you were trying to say. Its in the interest of an altruist to give or share, regardless of what they have, so them being poor wouldn't stop them. But yes, despite gaming being probably the largest digital entertainment form nowadays, most people still probably don't own a console.

I was more trying to point out how all these big companies, be it mcdonalds, or sony, etc., or big ceos like elon musk, or jeff besoz, or even big twitch streamers, music stars, actors, whatever, I wont name anyone specifically there, but you can literally pick any, have made immense sums of money, and when you try and look at the things they have done with this money, it's nothing, it's just been stashed away in safes, nothing of importance has been done with it afterwards, and it's being used to sponsor "gaming compounds" and "tik tok stars" which is incredibly disappointing to think about. At least if they'd back down to leave something for others if they don't want to invest in providing the tools for others to learn and create things but they wont even have the dignity to either of those things. They just want to wait in silence until someone comes up with an idea, then they offer an insignificant amount of their money for it so they can produce it large scale and sell it at inflation price. Even if they donate money they're like donating $100 000 and people go crazy like what a good thing they did in the next 5 minutes they made those $100k back through investments that pay back. It's all a bad joke. Remember when people posted that meme many years ago with bill gates and by the time you scrolled at the end he was getting a Lamborghini?

Exactly, it's insane there's no rules for price gouging, but in the end who owns the gov that rules the people, the corporations. They were allowed to slowly buy parts and people, now they own all of it, and now the same corporations try and push messages like "recycle" and "think of the planet", or bs like "use water wisely", then you realize it's the same companies that are responsible for these things. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7V4PPHijs"

Like yes, I'm gonna give a damn while the people running a multi billion dollar corporation are going to see what corners they can cut, everyone has to pay their taxes, but think of the corporations, lets let them go to ireland or whatever and pay no taxes or almost nothing. Think of all the celebrities that are struggling so much with their millions of dollars they had to get offshore accounts in panama so they can avoid taxes.

GT7 gets good reviews, and i must say it looks interesting to myself too (although i still have to start believing you can play a racer with just a controller and not just a wheel) and i do have a playstation 4.

I believe Spiderman is fully remastered, all build to be 4k. I just don't understand how they can be 25 euro cheaper on keyreseller sites for pc, not like they come from kickstarters or something, but from sony..

I am wondering about Final Fantasy 16 if that's gonna be a ps5 exclusive, but it probably goes to atleast Epic.