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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.'"
You expect this kind of craven, heavy-handed behavior out of a Samsung or a Panasonic, sure. But Sony?!?!?
Why not? It's not like the consumers are protesting or anything. They'll buy it no matter how restrictive it is because they've become accustomed to it from years of using ipods, windows vista, dvds, etc. There isn't a popular consumer entertainment product out there that doesn't have some form of content restriction.
Don't blame Sony: Blame the idiot consumers... they'd probably buy a three coiled shit if it had 'Sony' emblazoned across the front and some semi-naked girl promoting it. The primary demographic for these games are people who are under 25 years old, have a lot of disposable income (teenagers!), and that group doesn't remember a time when DRM wasn't ever-present. Anyone my age (30+) can and does call me when they can't find a torrent or piece of software they want. Anyone under the age of about 25 is afraid the FBI is going to bust down their door and rape them with an anal probe... even though none of them have ever met or known anyone this happened to.
So strike my last... don't blame Sony. In fact, don't even blame the consumer: Blame yourself, the one person who has the facts, the technical expertise, and the social awareness of the problem. You can't count on the kids these days to know better... fuck, they can't even do basic division anymore their education's been so watered down. From everything I've seen of the teenagers today, their education has been shit, and I don't think that's accidental .. we're moving in a direction of having this country be run by a very few haves, and a whole lot of have-nots. I don't feel this is accidental... DRM is just one front in a very large war against the working class.
Footnote: HEY SLASHDOT, using a greater than sign by itself should not mean your html parsing code goes all pac-man on the rest of the comment.
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