Official: Playstation 4 Will Play Used Games 221
An anonymous reader writes "Quenching some rumors 'Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Eurogamer that PlayStation 4 will not block the use of second-hand games, contrary to various reports, speculation and even a Sony patent unearthed last month.'"
Re:Sony removes features (Score:2, Informative)
Easy, assuming each game copy has a unique key. Then you can do it in software quite easily. "Opps, sorry, Update 6.2.1.7 has detected that this game was registered to more than one console and is no longer playable."
Sure, someone might hack it, but for the vast majority of consumers that would make being able to play a used game a thing of the past.
Re:Sony removes features (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Until it doesn't (Score:4, Informative)
The ps3 with backwards compatible hardware still plays ps2 games.
Re:They say that now... (Score:4, Informative)
I'm sure it will play used games for certain definitions of "play." Don't hold your breath for online play with used games or any other features they feel the used market can do without.
Re:from a Japanese perspective (Score:5, Informative)
It already happened in 1997 and there was no angry mob.
http://www.arts.or.jp/judge/judge_tokyo/t_17.html [arts.or.jp]
It took a group of retailer to fight the will of game publishers to forbid second sales of video games. ...
Don't count on the japanese public to rise up and make a fuss
Re:They say that now... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:So? The games suck anyway (Score:5, Informative)
Support a second controller (Score:4, Informative)
We wanted to say we'll still support a second controller for another hand to join in the game
That is in fact consoles' biggest advantage over PCs. Because consoles are more often connected to a monitor large enough to support two to four players offline, major labels are more likely to develop games that support two to four players offline for consoles than for PCs. Case in point: Where are the PC fighting games other than Street Fighter IV?
This software title is not in service (Score:4, Informative)
Don't hold your breath for online play with used games
Sony and publishers of games on Sony's platforms have already been doing that since the PlayStation 2 by shutting off the matchmaking server of any game that's a couple years old. The most common error message is "DNAS error -103: This software title is not in service."
Re:So? The games suck anyway (Score:3, Informative)