Manufacturers of custom side plates for the PS5 have a tough time. Sony usually acts quickly against the suppliers. Now a retailer is offering them again and even provoking the PS5 manufacturer.
This is what it’s about: Currently, the Playstation 5 is only available in white. However, the console’s side plates are easy to swap. Since Sony has not offered any other variants so far, third-party manufacturers have tried to bring their own color variations to the market in the past – particularly sought after are apparently black side covers.
However, Sony had a say in this and took action against the retailers. For example, in the case of Customize My Plates, which was forced by Sony’s lawyers to cease selling colorful side plates. Apparently, the custom side plates infringe on patents. As CMP, the company then even made a second attempt.
Now, another retailer, DBrand, is taking the plunge and offering black custom side plates for the PS5 – in a sleek matte tone. Knowing that legal consequences could arise, DBrand is even mocking Sony.
“Get your own before Sony’s lawyers do.”
This is what the retailer says: Regardless of the fact that Sony has been brash in threatening legal action against retailers, DBrand is promoting its side plates on its own website quite aggressively and even provoking the PS5 manufacturer.
The product page states at the top: “Darkplates. Go ahead, sue us.” Overall, the entire description of the product is quite humorous and sarcastic.
It is stated, among other things, that they deserve a Nobel Prize for having rectified Sony’s “monumental successes in bad design.” They also emphasize that the side plates are “totally legal.”
The retailer is asking for another Nobel Prize for its “Middle Skins.” DBrand even offers additional skins for the center piece of the PS5. So far, this piece would show more fingerprints and scratches than “the prison cells” of their testers.
Through these, they have also found out that “99.98% of all people” can successfully attach a Darkplate to the PS5.
On Twitter, the manufacturer writes: “Get your own [custom side plates] before Sony’s lawyers do.”
It remains to be seen how Sony will respond to this provocative advertising. It is quite conceivable that, in this case, lawyers will come into play again and the retailer may have to take its product offline soon, just like in another case, where black side plates were offered.
Perhaps interested customers will also be positively surprised and Sony will rethink its policy on custom side plates. We will keep you updated on this.
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