Your personal data in PSN is more profitable than actually selling the game in 180 other countries.
The continued enforcement and even expansion of the delisting in these countries, which we now know was done by Sony is proof-positive that they’re just going to try again to enforce this at a later date.
It won’t happen, though part of me just wishes ol’ Gaben would up and find a loophole in the Sony contract and tell the Helldiver 2 devs to directly partner with Steam. Not because I think it’s a legitimately good idea; because the pure chaos this would cause would be extraordinary.
A couple of things we’re learning here:
Your personal data in PSN is more profitable than actually selling the game in 180 other countries.
The continued enforcement and even expansion of the delisting in these countries, which we now know was done by Sony is proof-positive that they’re just going to try again to enforce this at a later date.
It won’t happen, though part of me just wishes ol’ Gaben would up and find a loophole in the Sony contract and tell the Helldiver 2 devs to directly partner with Steam. Not because I think it’s a legitimately good idea; because the pure chaos this would cause would be extraordinary.
more profitable in the short term
there’s no way you can build a 10- or 20-year business plan around that.