RazorDragon said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
No.....it would have to be an online client if third party approached it outside of Sonys system, like what Ubisoft account or EA origin account. That is how third party would implement their licensing enforcement. The PS4 will be wholly approachable offline unlike the Xbone because Yoshida said there are people they are selling the console to who dont even have internet.
MS intergrated DRM into the heart of the console, meaning it affects the way you use it from the second you turn it on if you plan on gaming. They never thought about the little guy who has no internet in a rural area because it needs to be online once every 24 hours.
LOL....in no way are their situations equal.
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If there's an online client for every third party game on the PS4, then what's the difference? You still wouldn't be able to play offline like with the new Xbox, the only difference is that a few selected games would work offline while the majority wouldn't. Anyway, we don't know yet if Sony is implementing or not any kind of DRM or how it works, but if the RFID patent is used on the PS4, you can expect no need for a online client for 3rd party games, since the disc would lock itself without the need of internet.
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Not every third party wants to implement DRM, or at least I would suppose so. Many of them are hearing the crowd response from the net because quite a few of them actually listen and report back to their publishers. Activision and EA are the only publishers we can expect to force this on us. If they wanted to put DRM in a game they would enforce it on Nintendo as well via client, so yes it is different. MS is doing the work for them against us so they dont have to and forcing an azure network on Gamestop and used game sellers worldwide.
Sony and Nintendo would be more so in the same boat if this situation were to take place. As far as we know Sony and Nintendo are the only consoles where a game can be enjoyed offline majorly. On the Xbox you've been locked down and really, as it has always been the Xbox is useless without online as it is.
