Chark said:
CCFanboy said:
Digital media is not the future if we say it isn't. Yes technology moves fast but physical media will be around for at least another generation.
The problem with the games market is they are too expensive. Either make cheaper games to sell at cheaper prices or stop pushing what people won't accept. It isn't just used games that suffers. Some buy pre-owned because they can't find a long out of print game and have no choice to buy it used. People can actually get into games through buying a pre-owned game cheaper and then may want to buy the sequel new since they liked it. Then you have people who cut costs of new games by trading in their old ones. Trading in is actually the key reason this is flawed and problems arise.
The reason this works for music is because you can get songs for measly pennies on i-tunes. Games cost £40 a piece. Patenting this just proves sony have actually been thinking about this. There is just so much wrong with an idea like that. |
But we don't know anything about how they would implement this. Perhaps each game is allowed 2 users, perhaps there is a few dollars to buy an unlock code to reactivate a disk, perhaps their digital media offerings will be competitively priced, perhaps they will implement this if games are capped at a certain price to prevent them from becoming even more expensive. There are a variety of ways that this patent could be justified. Expecting it to be flat out implemented and in a market like that of this gen sounds terrible, but it is only one possibility so people shouldn't condemn the idea outright.
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it would be the best option, because what developers complain is that they don't make any money through used games, so, if you buy a 2nd hand game, you need to pay few dollars to reactivate it($1-$5) allowing you to play it, and finally those few dollar will go to dev's belly.
