Shovelware that plagues the Playstation Store is a story like time. Regardless of whether it is a game that was developed with a simple platinum or only general garbage titles that do not benefit anyone, these types of games were essentially available, since digital shop fronts became clearer at home consoles. However, it looks like this PS Store.

How can PS Store Shovelware exist?

As reported by Rebekah Valentine at IGN, hundreds of games, which are referred to as shovelware or “slop”, not only the PS store, but are also advertised in certain sections of the digital store front. The “Games to Wishlist” section is most made with these types of games, especially for PlayStation. So how is it that these games are able to find a place on the shop?

A mixture of the certification process for a specific platform (in this case PlayStation) and developer of the system seems. In an even more general sense than in the article, a developer Sony is described who they are and what he wants to publish in the StoreFront.

If this is approved, access to development baking portals and devkits would access you. Then a form is filled in in which the game is described. PlayStation then begins with the certification process, in which it checks whether the build platform requirements can both technically and also ensure that no laws are interrupted. If it passes, it can be published on the shop front.

According to the report, this process is quite similar for all platform owners. A primary way, however, is how you are examining applications. Microsoft controls playfully, while Sony distinguishes developers or publisher. This means that the developer or publisher has once been approved, and the process of bringing a game into the PS Store is much easier, which may cause the developer to pump many games into the shop front within a small time frame. This in turn can lead to sales, new publications and recommendation pages of shovel.

“With all consoles, you have the opportunity to imagine, but you are also on these automatic lists,” said a developer. “If people only crap into the system, they will be pressed down the list. Every list. The systems are overwhelmed and they are pushed out there. I have been working on my game for six years, someone else has been working on his game for six months and makes a dozen copies of it … it is only crushed. “

It is currently unclear whether Sony is planning to take measures to this shovel problem. In the past it was reported that the simple platinum games of the PS Store such as Press X were banned for trophies. So while measures are not taken at the moment, there is a possibility that Sony can do so in the future.

(Source: IGN)

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