Sony officially states that PlayStation 4 will not have DRM against used games

[Otakumegane]

pezus said:

Otakumegane said:

 

It's not like they suddenly decided to let the publishers do this, they had this in works for a time. This is an outright lie.

And before the Xbone conference mind you. Now theycan annouce that they have DRM in some form because the goalposts have been moved. "Oh at least it's not system-wide" Sony fans say.

Imagine the crap they would have gotten if they annouced this before Xbone reveal. Now it's suddenly acceptable?

Same stuff. This is Sony supporting publisher's decisions to go this route and I ain't havingno part in it. I'll enjoy my PS3, but I'm staying the hell away from this.

Again, they had nothing "in the works" because this was already possible eons ago. ALSO, I'm pretty sure publishers are free to do this on Nintendo consoles as well, or can you prove otherwise? If you can, I'd rather take having games with DRM than having no games at all (that want to have DRM).

Yeah, Nintendo does not nearly have the required expertise of online to implement some thing like an "online check". (And publishers have on 3DS before but that was a software feature and not a hardware one as in Nintendo's hardware did not have means to do this.)

But I'm actually still confused about whether if this is the "disk-based or "required to be online to play the game" restriction. If disk based, that means that something in the hardware itself blocked used games and means that Sony fully integrated it into the system so it could detect a used disk. If so, shame on them.