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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-faces-dutch-lawsuit-over-artificially-high-playstation-prices
>The Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument has filed a collective lawsuit against Sony, claiming that the console manufacturer has been exploiting its dominant position in the market.
>The group maintains that at least 1.7 million PlayStation owners in the Netherlands are paying too much for digital games on Sony's console.
>Research quoted by the foundation found that, on average, consumers pay 47% more for digital games than for physical ones, and the foundation's chair, Lucia Melcherts, says that people are being "pushed towards 'digital-only' consoles since the latest PS5 generation"
>oopsie woopsie de prices are stukkie wukkie
>>713730372 (OP)Industry-wide trend, there's no chance of this actually doing anything.
well that's been the case for close to 20 years at this point. for whatever reason physical is usually cheaper for new or semi recent games.
probably more competition on retail market. but i don't know, seems like some sort of lawyer cash grab try to make money out of that now. what do customers ever get out of those? like 1 euro each max if they win
>>713730372 (OP)What a retarded claim. If you can't set your own prices, no matter how retardedly high they may be, you're no longer present in a free market.
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>>713730372 (OP)Why are the dutch always so frugal? A normal person brags about how much they spend and a dutch person brags about how much he saved. Is it because of Calvinism?
>>713731892The problem is specifically the part where consumers pay 47% more for digital games while companies are pushing digital only consoles.
>>713730372 (OP)Didnt they also sue and won over loot boxes?
>>713732446I highly doubt 70 euro games are launching as 45 euro games physically there, so they're basically complaining about sale prices then which isn't gonna go through in a lawsuit
>>713732269Most of them still refuse to use creditcards even in 2025. They even came up with their own payment system to avoid having to pay with credit.
>>713732446>consumers pay 47% more for digital games while companies are pushing digital only consoles.Again, so? Don't like the prices, don't pay them.
Video games are a luxury, not a necessity.
>>713733667considering recent credit card censorship nonsense.
maybe having a seperate system is preferable
>>713734048iDEAL getting adopted in most of europe soon under a different name.
>>713730372 (OP)LMAO
But they aren't complaining about the exorbitant taxes, I suppose.
>>713733836Just kill yourself already
>>713734360Ah yes, why don't people dislike money that will go back to national infrastructure and services instead of financing a billionaire's third yacht, the classic conundrum.
>>713730931*oepsie woepsie de prijzen zijn stukkie wukke
>>713734601>money that will go back to national infrastructure and servicesyou mean welfare for third worlders to invade you
>>713732269Because generational wealth. Bragging how you're wasting your family fortune on gambling and luxury cruises sounds retarded, but it's exactly the same.
>>713731340>there's no chance of this actually doing anything.Dutch law firms are also running a suit against a cartel of TV manufacturers that artificially kept prices high back during the '90s, which is going to ask the court for in reparation payments to anyway capable of producing a receipt indicating they bought a set manufactured by one of them during that time. They are *winning* that case.
>>713735525Nice deflection but how does lining the pockets of some rich dude help keep the niggers out of your country?
>>713735003We hebben een serieus probleem
>>713735659Wat is Rutte toch een hielenlikker
Ik wilde Hitler een tikkie sturen voor die fietsen, maar hij is dood.
Wat nou?
>>713732269the dutch are jews but with morals
we have always been a merchants country
It's okay when Sony does it!
People that waste society's time like this should be executed to be honest
>>713736501Your country came up with the stock exchange and shareholders. you ruined everything. Capitalism was working fine until that shit.
>>713730372 (OP)How about the fucking controllers being 88€.
>>713736024start by googling welfare, refugee and immigrant shelters, affirmative action
>>713736586You are the one that should be executed. This will trickle down to every other sector.
>>713736873Larry Fink will be glad that someone learns what he contributed to.
>>713734469>>713734506>no counter argumentI accept your concessions.
>>713737064There was no argument in the first place, just your stupid opinion
>>713737857>There was no argument in the first placeYou not willing to accept the argument is not the same as no argument existing.
There is nothing wrong with a company setting their own prices for their own products that they are selling.
>>713738001I already said I accepted your concession.
