Has Sony been anti-consumer for the past few years? Crossplay was an issue this generation but I can’t think of anything else.
Nintendo on the other hand (who do their own thing and don’t follow anyone) have been the masters of anti-consumer. They’re still selling you the same games they made years ago which you probably bought at the time then again on Wii, then the Wii U and again for the Switch (and “buy those Wii U games again”).
Nintendo are the worst no contest.
Are they? Nintendo hasn't been forcing developers to adhere to bullshit censoring practices to satisfy their SJW agenda. Censorship of ridiculous things, and not just sexual or adult content, either, pretty much anything that could potentially offend people. They're extremely selective about what gets censored, too. And they've been making ridiculous demands of developers to meet certain publication "standards."
A lot of developers, many once Sony-exclusive, have jumped ship. That's why a lot of IPs that were PlayStation-only are now getting ports on PC and other consoles. And as far as crossplay is concerned, only a few games are even allowed such because they kowtowed to Sony's demands. One of my friends said that some devs even pay royalties to Sony, along with adhering to strict rules, just so their games can have crossplay. A lot of games do have that feature already built-in, but Sony has to approve it for the players to even access it. Just look at Fortnite.
Sony has their heads stuck so far up their asses, they actually think their multiplayer service network is superior to all else, yet the idiots can't even fix it properly when it has issues. PlayStation Video has been broken since September. Thousands of players flocked to Sony's support and various subs on Reddit, complaining about constant PSN errors popping up while playing games, even single-player ones. Ever since they relocated their headquarters to California, they've been making all kinds of bad choices. They cut off web browser-side purchases for their older consoles, and eliminated the wishlist feature for even PS4 users, yet they've done nothing to improve the garbage PSN Store console-side. And now there's the party chat moderation/recording fiasco. Seriously making a lot of people reconsider purchasing a PS5, myself included.
Kind of hope Sony and Microsoft eats at Nintendo's sales so they stop being douche bags
Well, the way Sony's been behaving as of late, they're bound to lose a lot of customers.
What issues have people had this generation? Which store policies? Timed 3rd party exclusives aren’t anti-consumer but if I was still a Nintendo fan I would be sick too.
Their refund policy is a joke. The second you download the game, your right to a refund is null and void. At least with Steam, you can try the game out, and refund it, no questions asked, if your play time is less than two hours (and even then, if it's gone over, you can still contact them and try to get one regardless).