How does "Official Licensing" work???
On Fanatec's website on the DD+ page, it says "officially licensed for PS5". Im just wondering what we are waiting for if it was already officially licensed???
On Fanatec's website on the DD+ page, it says "officially licensed for PS5". Im just wondering what we are waiting for if it was already officially licensed???
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I think there’s a small note on the product site which states that final approval of Sony is pending or something similar.
As far as I’ve read Sonys licensing Programm for third party companies is very challenging and Japanese companies tend to cancel or delay agreements last minute.
sony just got fined by the France authorities because of their unclear licensing system.
for the DD+ situation I think there was something like a pre approval from Sony otherwise they didn’t start mass production of the base.
so there are a few possibilities
Auf der deutschen Internetseite steht nicht, dass die Lizenzierung noch aussteht. Auf der englischen Internetseite steht, dass die Lizenzierung noch aussteht. Da ich aus Deutschland komme und die Muttersprache von Fanatec auch deutsch ist, gilt die deutsche Version.
Auf der deutschen Internetseite steht, dass die DD+ bereits von Sony lizenziert wurde
The German website does not say that licensing is still pending. The English website states that licensing is still pending. Since I come from Germany and Fanatec's native language is German, the German version applies.
The German website states that the DD+ has already been licensed by Sony
yeah that’s right just realized that but I wouldn’t put too much into it since we all got the mail yesterday
Thank you for the response. That's pretty convoluted if that's the way Sony and Fanatec are operating. "Officially Licensed" shouldn't mean that they have hopes and dreams of it being approved. I wonder if the hold-up could also be because of the fines in France so they are re-evaluating?
that could be one reason yes why fanatec still waiting, because off that france fine in 20 detsember
there was also other lawsuit happening at november for sony ?
they say by half januari so in 2 weeks i am counting on another update tops januari 20th i hope we have an official date when the licence is done and it cant be send from the warehouse
Damn, December 20th is when the fine happened!!?? That actually make sense then. That's right in between when we were supposed to receive it. I didn't realize it was that recently.
OK so this is actually pretty interesting as they were fined 14million for damaging third party controllers. So this new chip set that the Clubsport DD+ has a good chance of being there to avoid that? Another guess but I can't help but to speculate.
That's crazy. Good precaution if that's true...
damaging the company's reputation as seems Sony played with voltages what shut the unlicensed controllers off.
im assuming this happened kind off some time now and they gathered all the evidence
i don’t think that fanatec themselves started production into the blue and hope for the best but we can’t do more than hope for the best and end get an update mid January.
this could be also issue why some fanatec players been sometimes complain that they loose connection with they playstation
they talk EMI issue but what actually may happen Sony is been manipulate with voltages what causes disconnect
Never had this issue with my DD pro. I thought the random disconnects where caused by the shaft coming loose
shaft loose is totally something else. and i not talk about that
Ok didn’t know about that but theoretically possible when Sony is playing with the voltages to force dosconnects
I also had disconnections. Since I did it in the following episode, I've never had any disconnect again.
1. Wheel Base on
2. Playstation on
3. Playstation Account login
3. USB into the Playstation
4. Register Wheel Base on the Playstation.
Since this order I have no more disconnects
accounting to france it happens at time when playstation 4 does update so i could be that not every user see that.