The phenomenon of gender discrimination in the gaming industry is also reaching the PlayStation.
A former information security analyst at Sony's Interactive Entertainment Division (SIE) is suing the world's largest console maker for inequality and unjustified dismissals.
The lawsuit was filed this week in California and may even become a class action lawsuit.
The analyst, Emma Mayo, who started working at Sony about six years ago, claims that women in the company earned less than their male counterparts, and did not even get proper promotion options, as she herself was not promoted during all her years of employment even though she sought to improve her professional status.
She said she had complained to her superiors about the culture of discrimination during the current year, and even reached an agreement with them, but was surprisingly fired "shortly afterwards".
Sony explained the layoffs by closing the department Mayo worked in, but according to the employee, she was not part of the department that closed at all.
The offices of Sony's interactive entertainment division in Silicon Valley, Photo: GettyImages
In the lawsuit, Mayo provided examples of alleged discrimination.
She said several male executives, including a security manager named Hugh Sugita, refrained from talking to women when the office door was closed, and if another man was present at any meeting, then Sugita would address only him and not the women.
At times, Mayo revealed, she would pass on requests through her male colleagues, because she felt the principals would ignore those requests if she forwarded them herself.
Mayo also complained that Sony was careful to add more men than women to its ranks.
Sony has not yet responded to the lawsuit, but there is no doubt that it is turning on a red light - another - for what is being done behind the scenes of the video game industry, joining the widespread discrimination and sexual harassment affair uncovered in recent months at Activision Blizzard.
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