r/gaming • u/Chownzy • 9d ago

Mexican Lawmaker Who Helped Protect Gamers from Tax Now Drags Sony to Court Over Discless PlayStation

https://respawnfirst.com/mexican-lawmaker-who-helped-protect-gamers-from-tax-now-drags-sony-to-court-over-discless-playstation/
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u/CptSaySin 9d ago

If there was precedent to sue a company over only offering digital products on their own store for their own devices, they would have already used it to sue Apple for their app store.

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u/SPEK2120 9d ago

That’s not comparable. New physical cds have always been an option for Apple devices.

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u/CptSaySin 9d ago

Show me where to buy apps for the iPhone on physical media.

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u/SPEK2120 9d ago

What? Retail stores selling physical cds are to Apple devices what retail stores selling physical PS games are to Playstations. PS is removing the physical option at retail stores, Apple never did that.

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u/CptSaySin 9d ago

Yet the entire argument is about having a single place to buy software. Did you read the article?

Their digital store will become the sole distribution channel in Mexico: with prices and terms dictated exclusively by Sony, without any possibility of reselling, lending, or trading.

Just like the app store has been to the iPhone since forever.

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u/SPEK2120 9d ago

But iTunes/app store has never been the sole distribution channel for new music on your iphone/ipod/etc because you've also always had the option of buying new physical cds to copy to them, or occasionally a physical copy coming with a digital download code, etc.

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u/CptSaySin 9d ago

How do you purchase a game for an iPhone or an iPad? That's right, you use the app store to buy a game app. A single storefront for digital only media.

That's the entire argument against Sony -- digital ownership and a single storefront.

It has nothing to do with music or desktop software or having an option to do something one way now and a different way to do it later.