It’s only taken what feels like eons for Sony Interactive Entertainment to finally make a PS Store change that PS5 and PS4 players have been begging for. We recently reported that the company has been quietly nuking thousands of shovelware games and dozens of devs behind them. Now, one of the banned devs has revealed that Sony has officially revised its publishing policies.
Dev confirms Sony has implemented new, stricter PS Store game publishing guidelines
Previously, Sony would only remove the most notorious shovelware devs and their games after lots of hue and cry, with many of the devs returning under new names. Players wondered why Sony couldn’t implement a system to filter out low-effort junk rather than picking and choosing what to remove after games were published.
It looks like our prayers have finally been answered. According to Afil Games, a studio behind nearly 1,000 low-effort titles, Sony has officially implemented stricter game publishing guidelines, as a result of which dozens of devs have lost their contracts. This explains the recent bloodbath that saw Sony remove thousands of games from the PS Store nearly every week.
It’s been a slow process, but we’re getting there. There are still plenty of low-effort games on the PS Store, but it looks like Sony will get around to nuking them sooner or later.
