Sony Blocks Online Play On Used Copies Of PSP SOCOM Game

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1/ This will hurt the new sales of the title, and in the end - Sony will make less revenue, not more.

2/ Less people will play it online.

And what is the logical next step for this:

a) You buy a new game at the store
b) The game box is an empty shell - it just contains a one-time code for downloading a game
c) Once the code is used, its worthless

I'll say it again: Sony has to get over this - they have to start chasing NEW consumers, and sell more copies of games - rather than squeeze more money out of the limited consumers they have.