Forbes:

[Ser_Luke]

A Narrative Of Sony And PS5 As ‘Anti-Consumer’ Is Starting To Take Shape

Sony is in a strong position with the PS5, but it's starting to feel like they know that a little too well.

www.forbes.com

All Microsoft's efforts to paint themselves as "pro-consumer" are starting to bear fruit, while Sony, staying with the industry standards or even moving in the opposite direction, is starting to feel a little "anti-consumer" to some potential players in contrast.

What am I talking about? A number of issues.

The thing that set this off most recently was Sony and Insomniac detailing the upcoming release of Spider-Man: Miles Morales which can be bundled with a PS5 remaster of the original Spider-Man. But unlike Xbox and its Smart Delivery upgrades, free upgrades of last gen games to next gen, that is not the case with Spider-Man, which does not have a free or even cheap upgrade path for PS5 as part of this bundle

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[Ser_Luke]

Oh my gosh my stupid phone I go by mistake before I finished typing

 

[SgtCobra]

Other thread about this was locked.

 

[pswii60]

In before the anti-contributor posts.

 

[EssBeeVee]

other thread got locked

Forbes Contributor: A Narrative Of Sony And PS5 As ‘Anti-Consumer’ Is Starting To Take Shape News

Link Article goes in details about the the recent price hikes to $70, no clear upgrade path for recent games like TLoU II and GoT, Xbox PR dunking on PS5s fuck-ups, and etc. The recent Spiderman news in particular seems to have been a step too far, even for Sony, according to the author~

www.resetera.com

 

[Siinova]

Gonna get locked.

 

[gogojira]

The other thread was locked because I guess people can't handle this topic.