Will Sony stop toying with the competition and the prices on the PlayStation Store?
The American class action lawsuit accusing Sony of forcing gamers to pay higher prices on its PlayStation Store compared to the liberalization of the service is in its final stages: a $7.85 million settlement is underway. But the real battle for the Japanese giant is being fought in the United Kingdom, where it risks having to pay up to 2.7 billion.
The RAM drama. Microsoft and Meta raise prices. The American company Qualcomm allies with the Chinese.
The RAM crisis disrupts the market. Qualcomm could produce memory with the Chinese company ChangXin Memory Technologies, while Meta and Microsoft are forced to raise device prices.
Sony, chased by Chinese and South Korean rivals, revises its priorities: fewer devices, more PlayStation.
The Japanese giant, besieged by Chinese and South Korean competitors, is changing strategy: less consumer electronics and more PlayStation video games. At the same time, it is reducing the number of exclusives for PC, a sector closer to its rival Microsoft’s Xbox. The high cost of RAM makes everything even more uncertain and could extend the lifespan of machines on the market, whose prices continue to rise.
Sony PlayStation’s most important match is played in Great Britain.
Millions of gamers called together in the United Kingdom for an antitrust class action that could trouble Sony: according to the plaintiffs, the Japanese giant, holding a “dominant position” in the digital distribution of PlayStation games, has “charged excessively high prices.”
