I was going to skip 5 and get a 6 when it finally came out but I guess 4 will be my last playstation
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It looks like I'm in the same boat. GTA VI id the only game of this generation to get my attention and I'm not paying $600 to play it. I'll just borrow a friend's console and then go back to sitting this one out.
I do kind of take issue with the presentation here. Pointing to the number of countries without access is rather misleading because it gives a country as large as Pakistan the exact same weight as somewhere like Tuvalu. In terms of population, the list of blocked countries is I believe around 30% of the world population. That's definitely still significant and IMO worthy of a headline on its own, but the way this article focuses only on the raw number of countries feels disingenuous for the sake of being able to showcase a big attention-grabbing number.
Why does the article say the EU can't do anything when this is a literal monopoly? Yes we can't force Playstation to keep selling disks but forcing them to allow other storefronts on the system sounds very achievable to me.