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Official: Playstation 4 Will Play Used Games
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.'"
Will it have an "Other OS" function too?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Did you ever use the other os feature? I did. Or at least I gave it a shot. It was awful and worse than useless. It sucks that it was stolen from us, but really - nothing of value was lost. Complaining about it is nothing but mindless point scoring against the evil corporation that is Sony, only the vast minority ever used it legitimately and those using it weren't forced to install the psn update. Other OS was nothing but a gimmick (or perhaps a cunning ploy to evade some tariffs). Complaining only shows that you have a preconceived axe to grind.
Microcrud already said their console wouldn't play used games or borrowed games.
This is another fine example of the tech industry learning from the mistakes of Microsoft.
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Okay.
I have no problem telling them.
They upgraded their firmware. They changed their device after it was sold. Who's fault is it?
Shouldn't have upgraded if you cared about 'Other OS', simple as that.
Once you upgrade you're no longer using what you originally bought and paid for. You're using what you paid for and changes from the company that came after the purchase. If you do not install those changes your hardware does not change. Sure, it may cut you out eventually from online services, but again, thats not what you bought, you bought hardware.
What you want is the best of both worlds. You want upgrades at no cost, supporting every feature you want it to support, regardless of how trivial a feature it is, and you want to claim you own the console outright.
Doesn't work that way. If you wanted to keep your other OS, you shouldn't have upgraded the firmware. You should have kept what you bought and paid for, instead you got greedy and wanted more and you get all bitchy when you don't like the terms of that exchange.
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They didn't 'take away' anything. The person who applied the firmware update did. They opted for a feature change. Sony didn't force it on them. You could still put all your old games in and play them if you didn't use the upgrade. Nothing was lost that you bought that wasn't done because of direct owner approval.
My PS3 still has the OtherOS option ... well I assume it does, its been sitting in a box for a couple years now ... so how is it they took something from your PS3 but not from my PS3?
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Sony didn't take away anything. You swapped the old firmware with a feature you wanted for new firmware ... without a feature you wanted.
You could have simply not upgraded the firmware and had no problem.
Would you buy a care from someone, then have them change out the radio for one with new features ... and then act like they stole something from you after you learned the new radio didn't have one of the old features?
They took no action. They gave you an option. You took the option. You made the choice that directly caused the removal of other OS.
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