Square Enix sold Western studios for a relatively small $300 million, because Sony was interested in buying its Tokyo division. Stephane D’Astous, founder and former CEO of Eidos Montreal, said this in an interview GamesIndustry.biz .

The District Court of California was not convinced by the arguments of a group of gamers who accused Sony of monopoly a year ago. Judge Richard Seeborg upheld the company’s appeal, but indicated that the plaintiffs could still try to appeal the verdict.

Sony has received another class action lawsuit due to faulty equipment. This time, the PS5 is at the center of the dispute. According to dissatisfied users, sometimes the console suddenly turns off right during the game. Although almost two years have passed since the release of the PS5, the company has allegedly not yet released a patch that fixes this problem.

Сегодня Sony Interactive Entertainment объявила о запуске нового подразделения в Китае — China Software Business Department. О нем пока известно немного, но, согласно документам компании, возглавлять его будет Шон Келли (Sean Kelly), бывший глава китайского филиала PlayStation.

Таким прогнозом поделился аналитик гонконгской фирмы TF International Securities Минг-Чи Куо (Ming-Chi Kuo). Однако он отметил, что точная дата релиза VR-гарнитуры во многом будет зависеть от графика разработки игр.

У Sony новые проблемы. Как сообщают «Ведомости», в конце прошлой недели 28 россиян подали иск к компании в Хорошевский суд Москвы. Они недовольны, что с начала марта не могут пользоваться PlayStation Store и покупать игры.

During the presentation to investors, Sony also mentioned the sales of its PC games. Apparently, Horizon Zero Dawn is showing the greatest success so far.

Sony held a presentation for investors on the development strategy. Among other things, she said that she intends to continue developing towards cross-platform, going beyond consoles and stopping “limiting herself to a rather narrow part of the market.”

The other day, Asian players started complaining about the new version of PlayStation Plus launched in the region. Allegedly, when switching to more advanced levels, users need to pay extra if they bought a subscription with a discount in the past. Now Sony has stated that everything happened because of problems in the operation of the service.

A letter from the Hong Kong support service was shared by one of the ResetEra users. It says that players who once bought PlayStation Plus at a discount and now want to upgrade to a more advanced level in an updated subscription should compensate for the resulting difference. The service will calculate the required amount automatically.

The launch of Sony’s updated subscription service is not going very smoothly. On May 24, it started working in Asia, and almost immediately local users started complaining about problems.

Sony is great at making money on subscriptions. This conclusion can be reached, judging by the presentation from the last public strategic meeting of the company.

This became known from the second volume of the book Ultimate History of Video Games, excerpts from which have recently appeared online.

According to Reuters, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida touched on this topic during a strategic briefing. He said that the company wants to play a leading role in the upcoming metaverse.

The other day, the media reported that Sony forbids internal studios to speak out on the topic of abortion in the United States. But that didn’t bother Bungie. The developers of Destiny 2 said — “no one will be able to put a muzzle on us and prevent us from standing up for a just cause.”

Insomniac has already faced a ban. Its head Ted Price (Ted Price) said in a letter to employees that a few days ago the studio decided to donate $ 50 thousand to the organization WRRAP, defending reproductive rights. Insomniac contacted Sony to discuss the company’s position, and in response received the following — you can make a donation, but you absolutely cannot announce it, as well as talk about abortion rights.

The last two weeks in the United States have been hotly discussing the possible abolition of the constitutional right to abortion. Jim Ryan, the head of Sony’s gaming division, did not stand aside either.

At the end of March, Jim Ryan announced that Sony has no plans to add its latest AAA games to the PS Plus subscription. Now Hikori Totoki, the company’s chief financial officer, has spoken almost the same way.

At the end of January, Sony announced that it was going to buy Bungie for $3.6 billion. Almost four months after that, the US Federal Trade Commission became interested in the deal, sources tell The Information.