07 May 2021, 12:05 am
Sony has been sued after allegedly limiting its consumers to purchase games on the PlayStation store. Moreover, the class-action lawsuit covers even some big game retailers like GameStop and Amazon.
On April 1, 2019, the PS5 console maker has blocked the big-game retailers like Amazon and GameStop from selling the downloadable codes for the PlayStation games. This means that to buy digital PlayStation games, the only place that you could go is through Sony-being a huge game store monopoly.
Sony s Latest Lawsuit Covers PlayStation Game Exclusivity
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According to the May 6 report of Comicbook, the lawsuit which Sony currently faces alleges the Tokyo-headquartered electronics company about its policy that swiftly and effectively foreclosed any and all price competition in the retail market for digital PlayStation games.