To RENT games
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2026
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Mother distraught at 9 year old son buys $432,000 on Playstation Store with credit card taken from purse.
call me when you can pirate games with playstation controller
Middle class gonna whore itself out to impulse purchase useless game skins. Middle class? More like idiot class lmao
Oh ya my cousin rather get a personal trainer then vote 🤷♂️
The way Sony are moving I wouldn't be surprised if Xbox retake console superiority, Sony seems terrified of PC and Xbox has merged with it, along with Sony standing firm on your purchased games not being yours.
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I may very well buy this controller in the future, but it would be for playing on PC, so that feature would go unused.
Put your credit card to the controller to resume playing.
and by tap we mean walk past.
Do you need a patent for that? Can you even patent something so silly and trivial?
I took an existing thing and put it inside another existing thing. That's a novel idea, right?
We could put card terminals in everything! Put card terminals in the fridge to pay for food?
I can't think how this is any better than just using the card you already saved on the account. Even from their point of view, this is an extra step in the payment process.
That's why all these microtransactions are in their own made-up currency.
Anybody else want to ditch society and go out in the wilderness and create a combine?
The billionaires are turning us into powerless mindless serfs.
rent
Sonys thing not mine.
Nintendo already have NFC readers on their controllers, so they could potentially challenge this.
Welp. It was a good run.
this is going to be awkward when my taint-chip starts to trigger purchases.
Drink verification can to continue
Sony is really trying to reiterate to consumers that the only thing they care about is your money.
"We're going to design a new controller. Its the exact same, but now you can give us money easier."
Roblox go brrr
IIRC Nintendo already did something similar, though only in Japan. And there was a game using that as input. Not credit cards thought, would be interesting to go into debt...
First, they discontinue the production of physical copies and now they pull off this rent-seeking bullshit.
this is just fucking gross
I wonder if I counts as sony sucking my balls if I tap my balls to the touch pad