In one-of-a-kind selling of pirated gaming console, Sony has sued a California man for selling jailbroken PS4s on eBay and on his own site. According to TorrentFreak, Eric Sales was selling jailbroken consoles pre-loaded with over 60 pirated games by circumventing the protection measures of PS4s.
Sales is accused of copyright infringement and circumventing the PS4's technological protection measures. He allegedly encouraged people to 'Stop Buying Games.' It is believed to be the first-such lawsuit against jailbroken PS4. The potential damages are expected to run to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Console manufacturers Sony and Nintendo recently released sales reports, with both the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch within touching distance of their immediate predecessors. 82.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold between a November 2013 launch and a July 2018 financial report detailing shipments up to June 30.
Sony stopped reporting PlayStation 3 sales in 2013. It has forecast a total of 17 million PlayStation 4 sales for the fiscal year ending March 2019. As for Nintendo, Sony's fellow Japanese console company reported 19.67 million sales of its hybrid home and portable console, the Switch, between its launch in March 2017 and the end of its most recent financial period on June 30, 2018.
Both consoles are some way off from the title of their manufacturers' crowning achievements. For Sony, that would be the 1994 PlayStation (102 million) and year 2000 PlayStation 2 (over 155 million), and for Nintendo, that's the 2004 Nintendo DS (154 million), the 1989 Game Boy and its 1998 successor, the Game Boy Color, which achieved a combined total of 118 million sales, and the 2006 Wii on a tally of 101 million.
With inputs from ANI
