You can get banned from connecting your console to their services if you’re caught using pirated games, or you’ve tampered with the system. There’s ways around it though, and some people don’t care if they’re locked out of services as long as the system still plays the pirated software.
That’s a point against Sony, specifically being a closed system. Having to buy games on Sony’s store requires getting a PS5/6 in the first place, but why get one when PCs are open, and usable if Valve goes rogue too?
Honestly, when I wrote it I was thinking “Sony doesn’t have to compete against relatively easy piracy like Steam and GOG do”. I don’t even remember what my actual point was, but I think it was precisely against Sony as in “there is no easy alternative if Sony goes rogue, your PS OS belongs to them, so they have not such incentive to make things good, therefore the risk is higher” or something like that lol.
Sony thinking they can just pull a Steam way too late in the game, and with Steam and GOG as competitors 😂
Well, consoles are a pretty closed enviroment. There is no piracy as there is on PC, if still some.
There is a lot of piracy for consoles. It’s just a matter of time.
Aren’t they usually “pirate and you will you lose any right to ask for help with your console, anywhere, ever again”?
You can get banned from connecting your console to their services if you’re caught using pirated games, or you’ve tampered with the system. There’s ways around it though, and some people don’t care if they’re locked out of services as long as the system still plays the pirated software.
That’s a point against Sony, specifically being a closed system. Having to buy games on Sony’s store requires getting a PS5/6 in the first place, but why get one when PCs are open, and usable if Valve goes rogue too?
Honestly, when I wrote it I was thinking “Sony doesn’t have to compete against relatively easy piracy like Steam and GOG do”. I don’t even remember what my actual point was, but I think it was precisely against Sony as in “there is no easy alternative if Sony goes rogue, your PS OS belongs to them, so they have not such incentive to make things good, therefore the risk is higher” or something like that lol.