Sony wiped over 1k shovelware games off the PlayStation store without warning

eurogamer.net

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croes

18 hours ago


6 comments

parliament32 16 hours ago

Watching the embedded "gameplay" video, I can see why. It's a pretty obvious "pay us a couple dollars and we'll inflate your trophies".

I haven't heard the term "shovelware" before though.

  • add-sub-mul-div 15 hours ago

    It's an old term from the 90s for a high volume of low effort, low quality software. Unsurprisingly, the LLM era has resurrected the term.

    • baud147258 15 hours ago

      I've been hearing the term since Unity made easy (easier?) to create low effort assets flips.

      • AdmiralAsshat 12 hours ago
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        It's much older than that. We'd call low-effort licensed games from no-name companies that were primarily designed to trick Grandma at Christmas "shovelware" as far back as the GC/PS2/XBX era, and that's just as far as I can remember seeing it in print.

mtndew4brkfst 13 hours ago

I knew before I opened the article that this was going to be about or at least include the Jumping <Food> entries. Happy to be right, and for them to be gone.