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Official: Playstation 4 Will Play Used Games

Posted by samzenpus on from the gently-used-gamer dept.

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.'"

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  1. They say that now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...but they've done the bait and switch before. I'm sure Microsoft will say something similar before the launch of their console.

    1. Re:They say that now... by Hardhead_7 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, according to this article in Wired the PS4 will be able to do it both ways. Publishers have the option of "registering" their games. Guess which they'll do? This is just a marketing ploy for Sony to be able to say "We aren't disabling used games, the publishers are!

  2. Initially, it will play used games. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just like Linux and the PS3.

  3. read between the lines. by Truekaiser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't pay attention to what he says, but what he doesn't. Sure it will play used games, he did not say what you have to do to play them. They might require you to sign into playstation network and pay an unlock fee which may or may not equal the price of the game as new for example. or you might be limited to X amount of hours to play a game that has been linked to a different console unit.

  4. Re:Until it doesn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because it doesn't follow from "Sony did this bad thing once" that "the malevolent theory I have about Sony is true".

    ...except "bad thing" and Sony is not limited to "once".

  5. Re:Sony removes features by thoper · · Score: 5, Informative

    well, it have been confirmed that the ps4 will not need internet connectivity at all, so games cannot require key registration. source

  6. Re:The slow erosion of our rights by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While this article is framed as a victory for the consumer, it is yet another reminder that technology [such as Cinavia] can, and will, be used to subvert our existing rights [to lend, copy, borrow, make backups].

    Step by step, resistance will be overcome and we shall be reduced to facilitators of consumption, thanks to the ever-increasing apathy amongst the general public.

    If you simply buy and play games (or watch movies or listen to music), you are already just a facilitator of consumption, you just don't realise it.

    The main "right" you have is the right to stop buying/downloading/borrowing stuff and go and do something creative instead, if you're that worried about it.

    --
    To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it