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superchunk on 22 May 2013
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joeorc said:


this does not sound like its dodging the Question:

I sat down with Yoshida a few hours after the PS4 reveal tonight and one of the first things I asked was whether used games would be blocked.

"Do you want us to do that?" he asked.

No, I said. I think, if you buy something on a disc, that you have a kind of moral contract with the person you've bought it from that you retain some of that value and you can pass it on.

Do you agree, I asked?

"Yes. That's the general expectation by consumers," said Yoshida. "They purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere, right? So that's my expectation.

No one ever said you couldn't "play" used games... just that there will be a fee associated with it. For MS that fee (at this time of understanding) is 100% on all games. For Sony its "up to the (individual) publishers".

 http://www.screwattack.com/news/sony-hints-ps4-does-contain-feature-block-used-games-its-publishers-use-it

How did so many people miss this tidbit that was prominent on many sites just after the feb 20th event?