PlayStation Removes Hundreds of PS4 & PS5 Shovelware Games from Its Store
No easy achievements from Nostra Games.
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Sony has been busy lately, delisting hundreds of PS4 and PS5 shovelware games from PlayStation Store and making Nostra Games' life a little more difficult.
The game studio saw all its games, 90 titles and 700 add-ons, removed from the store without a warning, as its Discord stated (via Delisted Games).
"Unfortunately, PlayStation Store has removed our games, and we’re unable to provide an exact reason because it wasn’t shared with us either… For know we are planning to continue releasing on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and Steam. This was just as unexpected for us as it was for you, as we had planned to continue releasing games in the coming years, and you’ve already seen some of them, but unfortunately, this is how things turned out. Thank you for your questions, but unfortunately, we are in the dark as well."
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Additionally, titles from CGI Lab have also been removed, making the number of delisted games closer to 1,000.
It's not clear why Sony purged the games, but it's speculated that such listings of questionable quality are often made with generative AI to cut costs and release seas of similar content for a quick buck, and Sony could be fighting low-effort, or perhaps AI-generated, content on its store.
The company is not willing to make any statements about it yet, but I doubt it's against AI in general. Last year, it appointed AI "as a catalyst for positive transformation and a partner in creativity, based on the belief that AI should support people."
Sony thinks using generative AI is "a starting point for enhancing productivity, reforming work processes, and inspiring creativity," so I don't think Nostra Games and CGI Lab's fault lies in AI-made titles. Or maybe it's different when Sony uses it.
My guess is that Sony decided to get rid of low-quality rip-offs that are so clearly made with no soul, chasing trends, so that they could simply harm PlayStation's reputation.
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