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According to Push Square, the "power outage" protest initiated by some PS5 players has ended its original one-week cycle, but the organizers have not stopped taking action. For now, participants are being urged to continue unplugging their consoles until Sony changes its stance.
This operation was originally planned to last from August 23 to August 30, and end at 19:00 local time on the 30th. Organizers later tweaked their wording, calling the week the "minimum requirement" to participate in the action, encouraging players to stick around indefinitely.
According to the initially announced rules, participants need to stop logging in and playing, and cannot make purchases in the PlayStation Store. The organizers hope to reduce the number of monthly active users of Sony's platform and attract the company's attention.
The report pointed out that the protest was mainly aimed at Sony’s plan to stop producing physical game discs in January 2028. The organizers also believe that the distance between Sony and the player community is widening, so they launched the boycott.
It is unclear whether the operation will be sustainable in the long term. PS5 will soon welcome "Blood of Dawn Treader" and "Onimusha: Path of the Sword", followed by games such as "Marvel Wolverine", "Control: Resonance" and "GTA6". After the organizers extended the protest, it remains to be seen whether participants will continue to abide by the rules.
Sony's latest financial report shows that its monthly active users are approximately 125 million, a year-on-year increase. Sony Chief Financial Officer Tao Lin previously talked about the boycott and cancellation of PlayStation Plus subscriptions, saying that the company has not found any impact on the business due to related events; the actual scale of this action may not become clearer until Sony releases monthly active user data in its next financial report.
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