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Sony’s Selling PS5 Faceplates After Killing Its Competiton

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Sony’s made it official — colorful PS5 faceplates are in the works. The Japanese giant announced their upcoming faceplates alongside new DualSense controllers to go along with the plates. Cool, right? Well, controversy’s brewing.

Well before Sony announced even the new colors for the DualSense controllers, Dbrand announced its Darkplates, faceplates for the PS5 to make it more in-line with the previous generations of dark consoles. As cocky as they were, they were doing something Sony decided not to from the get-go.

It wasn’t until earlier this year that Sony took action against Dbrand’s Darkplates by sending a cease and desist letter after obtaining a design patent. They did get to start selling them again after modifying its design to include air vents.

Dbrand wasn’t the only victim to Sony’s insistence to keep fans away from third-party faceplates, though. In an admittedly poor decision, UK-based PlateStation5 was forced to rebrand itself as Customize My Plates and then, after the fact, forced to cancel all PS5 faceplate pre-orders or face legal action.

Nevertheless, for those interested, the official PS5 faceplates will be available in 2022. Both Cosmic Red and Midnight Black will be available in January 2022, meanwhile Galactic Purple, Starlight Blue, and Nova Pink will release sometime in the first half of the next year.

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Dbrand Taunts Sony To Sue After Custom PS5 Faceplate Reveal

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Custom skins are its bread and butter and Dbrand has taunted Sony to sue them after announcing its plans to sell matte black PS5 faceplates. The Canada-based company took to Reddit to share the news and toss in a few jabs at not only Sony but also CD Projekt RED, too.

When point-blank asked if they were worried about retaliation from Sony in a similar vein as to what happened to Customize My Plates, Dbrand said they’d encourage Sony to try.

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It’s hard to say if Sony will go the extra mile to sue them, but it certainly isn’t the best idea to encourage them to.

You can read the full announcement here:

As the title of this post suggests, we’re now the global leaders in PS5 Faceplates.

Sue us, Sony.

This project has been in the works since just before we told you not to buy PlayStation 5 skins. Spoiler alert: this is why we told you not to buy PlayStation 5 skins.

After moving a few more chess pieces through four dimensions, we added a new production line to our plastic injection molding facility and got to work. The skills we’ve refined through the past few years of developing the Grip Case has uniquely positioned our organization to create OEM-grade Faceplates: ones with all of the precision, attention to detail, and needlessly elaborate packaging that you’ve come to expect from dbrand.

We’ll be entering mass production on PS5 Faceplates by year’s end. However, we won’t be accepting orders until we have stock at our Toronto HQ, ready to ship. If CD Projekt RED has taught us anything, it’s that selling products before they’re finished is a bad idea.

If you’re among the millions of humans who didn’t get a PS5 for Christmas, stay calm when you see these go out-of-stock. We anticipate that the demand will outpace supply at launch, but rest assured Faceplates will be a permanent fixture in our portfolio.

On the other hand, if you’re among the millions of scalpers hoping to differentiate their overpriced PS5 with a custom faceplate, we encourage you to sign up for the launch notification here.

That’s it from us. Congratulations on surviving 2020. We’ll try harder in 2021.

What do you think? Do you think Sony will take the bait or remain silent? Tell us below!

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