One company is selling replacement PlayStation 5 cards, telling Sony, “Go ahead, sue us.”
Canadian device customization company Dbrand launched its replacement PS5 cards, dubbed Darkplates, with a blatant attitude towards the prospect of Sony’s downfall.
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As Polygon noted, replacement plates are already on sale. They are matte black and cost at least $ 49 – without the shipping cost.
“With the launch of Darkplates, the unthinkable happened,” says Dbrand on his website. “We took Sony’s monumental achievement in bad design … and fixed it. We can only assume that our awards are in the mail.”
It is an aggressive tone considering the fate of companies that have so far tried and failed to sell PS5 cards. Last year, the company behind PlateStation5.com was forced to change its name and remove images from the PS5 after Sony threatened legal action. Eventually, the company canceled all orders.
The PS5 cards come out with a bit of tinkering – as Sony itself revealed in the race for the console launch in November 2020. At the time, it was felt that Sony was planning to sell its own official replacement cards, although the company is still has not advertised such a product.
The Dbrand plates contain a microscopic texture, just like the official PS5 plates, but it is slightly different from the design of the front button on Sony’s PlayStation.
“When you look at this microscopic texture inside the black plates, what do you see?” Dbrand states in a section of its website with the subtitle “Totally legal”.
“If your answer is ‘a familiar, but legally distinct apocalyptic twist on classic PlayStation button shapes’, you can be one of our lawyers.”
“Go ahead, sue us,” says the top of the site.
According to the Darkplates website, the first three waves of its PS5 cards have sold out. Limited stock of the matte black option for the Disc Edition console will be available for shipment in May.
The question is, is this operation still going on, or will Sony’s lawyers have a say?