Pretty much.  The profits Gamestop makes on games resales is ridiculous, if I were Sony, I'd want to stick it to them also.  But, not if it means translating those costs to the consumer.  So, I personally think that until they can figure out a way to take a big bite out of that without hurting the consumer, most companies won't do anything.

Doesn't matter what the Ps4 reveal said, you're simply going by public statements and have no real clue about what actually went on behind closed doors.  You're as much in the know, as I am.

consumer may decide not buying ps4 or its games. and sony probably weren't allowed to disclose real reason as they probably signed nda covering alot of aspects and can publically discuss them. ms have even more subs so they would risk losing even more subs (sony didn't had even 4M against ms 40M+ subs at the time) so this don't make much sense.

I don't rule out the possility of sony looking at the subject just wanted to confirm that there is no basis besides it make sense trying to profit on second hand (ps pass was a not overly customer burden but they discontinued it) giving discount on digital is quite enough on the no second hand drm subject.

The pass itself wasn't overly a burden, but the pass itself coupled with Gamestop's ridiculous markups is pure insanity from a consumer perspective.   Which is basically where the translating costs to consumers thing comes into play.

yep that was a problem. but consumer have the more troublesome option of trading game directly instead of being screwed by gamestop paying low on used and selling it with a premium... but we have to consider they take all the risk so they deserve more profits on the operation.

Microsoft wanted 0 risk and full profit that was abusive.

I'm just grumpy i didn't get to play Dragon Age 5 days early!

This.  Microsoft's $50 price cut and bundled games are a devastating hit to Sony's marketshare.  Sony not doing the same is just stupid.  Instead of dropping the price, they could atleast bundle more games.  Bundling a game they lose the possible sale of that game and maybe $1 for the amount to manufacture the game, so have four games bundled with the PS4, all first party exclusives, and Sony really loses nothing on the sale of the console and aren't forced to drop price but it still looks like a great deal.

I love the Playstation, but it's Sony being Sony.  It's been decades and they still haven't realized how bad their complacency hurts them in the long run.

Feel sorry for you... is digital a possibility to you?

If we go by their shipments figures, projected sales and everything else they will probably sell almost 100% of their inventory for the period and the cost to produce more + cost to cut prices (make bundles) would shrink their profit instead of risen... so maybe they decided they didn't need to attack when MS did it... Just waited and kept their plan for BF bundles.

Why did the OP never update the title of this thread ...