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Welcome to the razor-and-blades model, where the razor is a five-hundred-dollar plastic box and the blades are seventy-dollar digital downloads. Sony routinely sells physical hardware at a brutal loss just to aggressively lock you into their enclosed digital ecosystem. Once trapped, they take a massive thirty percent cut of every single game, microtransaction, and cosmetic skin you inevitably buy to justify owning the console.
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