Wow, Sony’s innovations include rootkits on music CDs you purchased, taking away your ownership of your games, and turning your entertainment devices into PoS kiosks for Sony Group Corporation.
They’re always looking for new and exciting ways to say “fuck you” to their users.
It really illustrates how far gone this regulatory regime is — that it’s even possible for a company to stay profitable while displaying such unending contempt for their customers.
It’s a fucking NFC reader slapped into a controller. If they get a parent for this bullshit, I’m patenting boogers & suing Sony C-suite execs & the patent office for having them.
Didn’t the Wii have this already too for their amiibo or whatever?
Those weren’t a payment method though, so it’s completely different… /s
Close, amiibo started with 3DS/Wii U (and they can still be read by switch 1 and 2 joy cons).
There had been other NFC readers for games before, they were just not integrated into controllers as far as I know.
Sony and MS are moving gaming community to Steam the fastest. Like they don’t even want our money or something.
Stole this from Reddit, definitely had a laugh.
They even set it up so you can buy Fruit Ninja with foodstamps!
Abolish patents.
Could be an interesting idea if used for more than just payments.
Like, reading a chip from a controller to make stuff happen in a game? That’s basically what was called toys-to-life games. Skylanders, Lego Dimensions, Disney Infinity, and for whoever remembers that, Ubisoft’s Starlink.
They’re almost all dead and only Nintendo’s amiibo kind of survive.
