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What's your thoughts on Sony pushing PSN down on PC gamers' throats? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by josephsh5@lemm.ee to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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This is affecting many PC gamers around the world, such as myself, as the last 3 PlayStation releases on Steam have been blocked in many countries. I wanna know what's your take on this. Please be respectful, and thank you. 😊

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[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The PS5 doesn't have a web browser. What CPU+GPU Sony makes you pay for the PS5? Well, if your PS5 is turn on and you want to check a web page, you'd better take a cheap android phone out (heck, a old blackberry would do) so you can check the website you want to... because your PS5 can't.

Sony, simply, live in another universe... they still have pockets to buy game studios and bribe exclusive in our dimension, but they simply don't actually exist in our reality. That's all I can think about Sony and their commercial practice: they take money from our reality (fewer and fewer each year), but they have no idea why.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They probably removed the web browser because the PS3, and PS4 have both been hacked through it. So instead of fixing the exploits they just said screw it and just removed it.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I agree. Incompetence is not an apology for their mistakes, instead the fact that Sony don't address their security issues make it even worse.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Funny part is, the browser most likely still exists in some aspect, probably through the manual section or something like that. So the PS5 will provably also be hacked through the WebKit. Lol

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's stupid but completely irrelevant.

And I kinda get it. I doubt lots of people would use it for the amount of support the browser would need over time.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

You can find a decent web browser on... basically anything: cheap smartphone, cheap smart TV (even non android/apple ones) and... Well, basically anything but Sony. Also Sony is the company that leaked customers private data. They are just incompetent.

But the omission for a web browser count more on the fact that you can play webgl videogames for free (instead spending on their store) than any security concern they may have (force customers to make PSN accounts after they were repeatedly breached is tell-tale about their security concerns)