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New Blood Interactive says Nintendo is being selective about which games can launch on Switch 2 and wants to avoid a Switch 1–style flood of shovelware; the company has dev kits and a 120fps Dusk, but Nintendo has not yet granted launch approval.
Sony has delisted 1,194 PS4/PS5 games from the PS Store (primarily ThiGamesDE titles) as part of a wider push to improve online safety and storefront quality; many removed titles are low-effort “shovelware” with easy platinum trophies, and the move follows a joint safety pledge by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, hinting at further publisher removals across platforms.
Sony reportedly pulled hundreds of ThiGames titles from the PlayStation Store, trimming a catalog long viewed as shovelware that flooded the store; estimates of the total titles vary (roughly 150 SKUs to many more), and there has been no public comment from Sony or ThiGames.
Sony reportedly removed more than 1,000 games from the PlayStation Store, all from a single developer, ThiGames, effectively erasing the catalog while leaving unlocked trophies intact; no official comment has been issued. The move follows a previous crackdown on a similar shovelware publisher and underscores ongoing store-curation efforts on the PS5 storefront.
The article discusses the issue of exploitative triple achievement stacks in Xbox games, where developers release multiple identical versions of the same game to sell easy Gamerscore, and argues that Microsoft should use the Xbox Play Anywhere program as an opportunity to eliminate this practice and improve the quality of the Xbox store.