121 countries are unable to make PSN accounts, which means that they are unable to use the PlayStation Store. In a digital-exclusive future—which looks likely for the PS6 after Sony announced plans to cease production of game discs in 2028—that means everyone in those countries will be locked out from purchasing titles on the platform.
While I’ve played mainly on PC for 30+ years, I’ve owned most of the consoles, lately due to kids playing on them.
PS6 will be the first non-contender. Simply not gonna even think about getting it. On xbox and playstations earlier we have loaned games from local library, and thats great for kids.
Maybe I’ll have to build pcs for them now. Bad time for that, too.
Well you don’t have to build them right now. You’ve got time. As I understand Sony is pushing PS6 release into 2028 due to all the hardware shortage. Either the bubble pops and hardware prices drop (or maybe China gets its production high enough to bring the prices down) or prices will still be so incredibly expensive that the next gen consoles will also be pushed back. Use the hardware you have right now and let us all cling to the hope that maybe in the future things will be better.
I’m not a Playstation fan, I just want to play on the sofa, so I bought it just for that. It was a PS1, PS3, PS4, PS5… ooh wait, in fact I did have nearly all of them
PS6? No way. For me the PS always was a good offer for couch gaming.
Unless Sony changes course, a future PS6 looks mighty unattractive, price and usage-wise.
My next “console” will be something with Steamos or Bazzite or any wine/proton install. Maybe something that I can also use for running LLMs when I work.
If memory wasn’t so expensive, I’d already have ordered a 128G Strix Halo box (good enough for most games, good enough for a lot of local models)
I hope someone cripple their security, then people living in those 121 countries can grab a jolly roger and help fuck them over, since they always sell their hardware at a loss anyway
Sony doesn’t want to sell to them
But they’ll sure want to sue when they bypass that restriction.
Sony is probably like “fucking over those shit hole countries will be worth it for us to fully control the north American, European and Japanese game sales. Fuck em”
Not like there’s a lack of lock-in platforms.
Good. Get a PC folks. Sony has lost it.
Im already pissed that games like shovel knight and celeste are banned/ unavailable in my country.
banned? Why?
Maddy, the main developer of Celeste is trans. Not that it matters for gameplay on a platformer but the main character is canonically trans as well. I don’t even think it really comes up that much in the story line. It shouldn’t matter.
But because of that, I such a gem of a game is banned in countries that would execute you for being trans.
Wow. The religion of peace strikes again.
I’ve only heard of Celeste because Karl Jobst did a video on it. It looks pretty good, very well made, and top tier movement mechanics
I dunno. Neither are available on the ps store. Go figure.for reference beauty and the beast was banned for a while because of a pig in one of the opening montages.
VPN (at least until they are deemed illegal)
A VPN won’t do to much good for people that don’t have internet, or a connection stable enough, or fast enough to download a 60gb game.
Not to mention unlimited plans is not something everyone has either.
