Sony hangs Fallout 4’s Playstation 4 players out to dry.

Brilliant, Sony. Absolutely brilliant. Particularly the part where Sony doesn’t even seem inclined to try to spin this – because the PS4 people are gonna be mad about this, and Bethesda is clearly going to be trying to make sure that people get mad at Sony, not them:

After months of discussion with Sony, we regret to say that while we have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4, Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition.

Well. It’s Sony’s company. They can do as they like, of course.  But I suggest that with regard to Fallout 4 – or any other Bethesda product going forward – that people don’t buy it for the PS4.  You’re not going to get the full experience.

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5 thoughts on “Sony hangs Fallout 4’s Playstation 4 players out to dry.”

  1. PS4 was one of my possible new platforms, mostly because I know people who have PS4s and it is a networked, collaborative platform.
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    With this news, I’m .. glad .. I didn’t have the cash on hand for long enough to actually *buy* the thing.
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    Can’t say I’m *surprised*, though .. Sony’s got a *long* history of trying to control how people who have *purchased* things can subsequently *use* the purchased things ..
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    I still have a Billy Joel CD that won’t play right on half the CD players I own because Sony encrypted it.
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    Mew

    1. Sony can and should be sued for that, because you can’t both follow the compact disc standard and have encryption; they’re fatally incompatible. If Sony advertised it as a compact disc they’ve committed fraud.

  2. This sort of thing is happening more frequently, and in more industries. The next thing you’ll start seeing more frequently is an attempt by various vendors to force you to lease their product rather than buy it outright. Software is almost there already.

    1. Should we mention that Apple are killing the “analog loophole” by dumping the headphone jack from iPhone 7?
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      I like my iPhone 6, but .. not buying a crippled phone to support their corporate greed.
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      Mew
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      p.s. anyone know if there’s an iTunes for Android option, and if so, got any success using it?

      1. I got a Galaxy 6 about a month ago. Downloaded Apple Music onto it, could not get it to sync with iTunes on my desktop. I ended up downloading the free version of iSyncr, and it took a little messing around, but it seems to work [it doesn’t play music, and everything else wants you to stream music from their service, but the app that came with the phone, that isn’t Google, does fine.]
        Your experience may vary.

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