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PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games
silentbrad writes "Kotaku reports some 'details' about Sony's next console given to them by a 'reliable source.' They say that the console's codename is Orbis, and it is planned for release by the 2013 holiday season. Developers are reportedly being told to plan for an AMD x64 CPU and AMD Southern Islands GPU. Further on, they mention that there will be no PS3 backwards compatibility and, like rumors about the next Xbox, will have anti-used game DRM. Specifically, 'new games for the system will be available one of two ways, either on a Blu-Ray disc or as a PSN download (yes, even full retail titles). If you buy the disc, it must be locked to a single PSN account. ... If you then decide to trade that disc in, the pre-owned customer picking it up will be limited in what they can do. ... it's believed used games will be limited to a trial mode or some other form of content restriction, with consumers having to pay a fee to unlock/register the full game.'"
... until Sony gets hacked, PSN accounts are lost and everyone's games are rendered useless. That lawsuit should be epic.
If you do this, I won't buy it. Lots of people won't. Stop this stupid BS.
You really need to learn to think in the long term. People will pay a lot for a game when it first comes out, but if you do this DRM crap, you MUST follow through and offer older games at much lower prices, and continue to do so for YEARS if not DECADES. Used game stores do this for you, and allow people with less money to remain rabid fans, and buy your big games when they first come out. If you kill the used game market, you cut those players off. Once they are cut off, they will find other things to do. YOU DO NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN.
If you must have DRM, you need to offer games from old systems that run on emulation on your new systems for free or next to nothing, and you need to offer older games at prices that used games get now. You need to keep people playing. If you keep playing these stupid DRM games without offering a substitute, then people will stop playing, and you will go the way of the music industry. Maybe someone like Apple will come along and save your sorry ass, and drag you kicking and screaming into a new, profitable business model, but I wouldn't bet on it.
A rented games is an used game right? What will happen with services like redbox,blockbuster or gamefly?
Because i can buy AAA titles all day off of Steam for less than $20, often less than $10? Anybody who pays $60 for a game that is so hamstringed by DRM is frankly insane. This kind of stupid shit is why I'm glad i just finished converting my kids over to Steam off the consoles. Now instead of $60 a game (more like $90 when you figure in the DLC that more and more games are having locked onto the discs) my boys get their games for $10-$20, often WITH the DLC, and those nice new PCs (one with an AMD quad, the other AMD Hexacore, both with HD4850s) they can not only play games and watch video but do their schoolwork, chat, play against each other over the LAN or meet up with me in Steam for a match, oh and with solid caps they'll easily last until 2020 and probably beyoond with nothing but a $60 GPU upgrade in a year or two.
As we have seen with the Vita (sales have dropped more than 72% since launch) people are getting tired of overpriced DRM in a box. All they are doing is slitting their own throats and they are welcome to it as the cheap multicores and TVs all having HDMI more and more of my customers are switching to HTPCs. they are cheap, do so much more than gaming, and with wireless controllers play games with better graphics and better responsiveness than the consoles. All i have to do is show folks how I can play a game AND have a chat session open AND rip a DVD and all at the same time and its frankly an easy sale. Valve has it right with Steam, make it easy, simple, and cheap. The new consoles will take tow of those three away, so let them rot.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.