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Sony Removes Over 700 Low-Quality Titles From the PlayStation Store

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Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?



Sony has now removed around 700 games from the PlayStation Store due to quality concerns. Most of these titles faced controversy for including Generative AI content and weren't up to the quality the store offers.

The most surprising revelation is that, among the removed games, around 70 titles came from a single publisher.

Nostra Games, the Cyprus-based company, saw the biggest impact with nearly 90 of its games being removed from the PlayStation Store. This amounts to nearly 700 games if you count all regional versions.

On Discord, a spokesperson from the publisher shared the following message:

Unfortunately, PlayStation Store has removed our games, and we're unable to provide an exact reason because it wasn't shared with us either…
That said, Nostra Games still plans on releasing games on other platforms like Nintendo, Xbox, and Steam. Most of their catalogue consists of simulation games that leverage Generative AI.

Aside from Nostra Games, CGI Lab also took a hit, although the severity was less for them.

Just last month, Sony removed another 1,200 games from the PlayStation Store due to the exact same reason. That resulted in indie developer ThiGames' catalog to be wiped from the platform.

Similarly, a couple of years ago, Midnight Works also had its entire listings cleared from the platform, too. It appears that Sony is swiftly purging the PlayStation Store, likely more now due to the increase in AI-slop, which we can potentially even see more titles being removed from the storefront in the near future.
 
The vetting process is critical for those storefronts now, as you can literally make a game with a paragraph of commands in Gemini.
 
How many games do they offer over other console stores. A thousand ish ?

I get why they would remove older titles, but surely they have the resources to keep them there.
 
This is the only correct response to AI slop.

the purge GIF
 
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Phew, looks like Life of Black Tiger avoided the cull. You can't be pulling that big cat down.

 
Find and Eliminate Low Quality Titles - the game. A must play for all PS owners.

I think they could turn it into a game.
 
I keep putting 'Astro Bot' into the Steam search but no results ever come up. :(
Sony seems to have purged all the games I'm looking for.
 
releasing 70 games from one unknown publisher doing nothing but AI shit for quick cash.. hope the whole studio burns and the whole team start flipping burgers.
 
I guess that's good...but I thought the whole advertising benefit of a closed-off platform is you can curate the quality of the content more.
 
This is the second purge Sony has done, almost 2K low quality, trophy inflating games purged.

Great news, MS and Nintendo should follow suite.
 
Good thing, shovelware was already menacing to suffocate the legit good games by taking a enormous amount of space in digital storefronts, and that was before the Ai slop coming.
 
Phew, looks like Life of Black Tiger avoided the cull. You can't be pulling that big cat down.


PS5pro PSSR2.0 patch confirmed LETS GO!!!!!
 
Strangely I was about to ask has it become too easy to distribute games on current gen consoles because even on Amazon I see games for PS5 , Switch & Xbox Series that look like they should be free in boxes of cereal. They have physical copies of these games 😂
 
Makes you wonder how much shit there is on there if they've removed over 700 games and shit like Taco Run and The Giraffe G are still there lol
 
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Sony has now removed around 700 games from the PlayStation Store due to quality concerns. Most of these titles faced controversy for including Generative AI content and weren't up to the quality the store offers.

The most surprising revelation is that, among the removed games, around 70 titles came from a single publisher.

Nostra Games, the Cyprus-based company, saw the biggest impact with nearly 90 of its games being removed from the PlayStation Store. This amounts to nearly 700 games if you count all regional versions.

On Discord, a spokesperson from the publisher shared the following message:


That said, Nostra Games still plans on releasing games on other platforms like Nintendo, Xbox, and Steam. Most of their catalogue consists of simulation games that leverage Generative AI.

Aside from Nostra Games, CGI Lab also took a hit, although the severity was less for them.

Just last month, Sony removed another 1,200 games from the PlayStation Store due to the exact same reason. That resulted in indie developer ThiGames' catalog to be wiped from the platform.

Similarly, a couple of years ago, Midnight Works also had its entire listings cleared from the platform, too. It appears that Sony is swiftly purging the PlayStation Store, likely more now due to the increase in AI-slop, which we can potentially even see more titles being removed from the storefront in the near future.
Your move Nintendo. Their digital store give me a serious stomachache.
 
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Many of the games are not AI. They were up there in 2024. It's stupid shit like Hentai Store Simulator and they would be BETTER if they were AI slop, they are either just nothing or trophy farms and there are still so many I can't even browse new games. Sony get on this shit. Nintendo too.
 
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Similarly
 
They still have work to do
 
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