Sony Fined $14 Million For Damaging Third-Party PlayStation Controllers - eviltoast
  • Risk@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    TIL. But I’d like to know what exactly the damage was?

    Now I’m wondering if all the problems I had with DS4s is related to Sony doing shady shit.

    I still have a DS4 which will sometimes work via Bluetooth and sometimes not.

    • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It’s financial damage, by intentionally causing third party controllers to be unusable when they otherwise work just fine. This gave the manufacturers a consumer impression of being shit when, again there was nothing wrong with the hardware.

    • Grain9325@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      The damage is the frequent disconnections on 3rd party controllers due to a system update which Sony claims was for combating Counterfeit controllers. I didn’t find anything else.