Sony Reportedly Bans a Ton of PS4 and PS5 Games From PlayStation Store – Goodbye Silly Easy Platinums games

Sony has reportedly banned a ton of PS4 and PS5 games from the PlayStation Store and will clamp down on future releases that fit the parameters set by this new policy. If you’ve noticed that the PlayStation Store has been overrun with shovelware nonsense games it’s because a ton of shovelware nonsense games have flooded PSN. People are attracted to these games due to a very easy or quick 10 to 30 minute platinum trophy. And because they are the most bare-bones assets flips a few sales made them profitable. The whole thing is apparently coming to an end.  A new report has relayed word that developers and publishers have been sent a letter by Sony that says it will be cracking down on spam and duplicative content.

“Sony Interactive Entertainment strives to ensure that customers can search and discover the full breadth of experiences on PlayStation, and that partners have a fair means of being discovered. When partners oversaturate or ‘spam’ PlayStation Store with many variants of the same type of content, it can negatively impact both the customer and partner experience,” reads the letter.

So what is changing, well “products whose functionality and/or assets are copied or are not meaningfully different from products already published on PlayStation Store, irrespective of the publisher of record” are deemed “spam” and “repetitive.” And if a game is assigned these tags it won’t be allowed to release on the PlayStation Store. This also applies to “multiple concepts and product variants, published by individual partners, that have duplicative functionality or experiences, differentiated only by minor variances of functionality or assets.”
Personally we all know a fair few of these types of games;