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J_Allard on 07 June 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:

You don't need an Internet connection... unless a 3rd party company requires it.
You can sell/buy/play used games... if a 3rd party company allows it.

When Sony actually comes out like MS did and gives some actual concrete stuff on how this works, something deeper than "well hey its up to 3rd parties" then you can talk about head in the sand little buddy.

Hey unless I am dated on some of this. In which case by all means, enlighten.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/It-Official-PS4-Feature-Used-Game-DRM-Like-Xbox-One-56264.html

This is like the 10th time I have seen a Sony enthusiast link this article to lets take a look at it.

1.) The PlayStation 4 can play games offline without having to be online. This was clarified the day of the PS4's reveal back on February 20th.

That's nice that you can play games online. Of course.. you can on the Xbone as well. If you click the link in the article for "play games offline", you see a dude saying PS4 is not a permanent connection device. Neither is the Xbone.

2.) Sony will not have any mandatory DRM for used games. You can buy, play, trade used games on the PlayStation 4 just as usual. No additional registration fees, pay-walls or internet registration required.

You guys are harping on the "Sony will not have any DRM" part of this comment but are leaving out there "mandatory" part. That is the most crucial part. If publishers are putting DRM on the Xbone, why would they not do it on the PS4? Look at the extremes publishers went to this gen to combat used games. Preorder incentives became ridiculous. When that was done, online passes came about. When that became common use, the online pass even seeped into games that had no online. EA recently got rid of the online pass. Do you think they did in out of the kindness of their heart, or because they have something better (for them) coming down the pipeline?

And this is just another example of no clarity or real answers being taken and interpreted as an actual answer. If you click the link for "buy, play, trade used games on PS4" in the article, you see all the Sony exec really says is "PS4 can play used games". The Xbone can play used games as well.

3.) If you so choose, you can play games from disc, download them from the digital store or remote load them. Sony doesn't mandate any method over the other for multi-format titles.

Sony doesn't mandate it, but it's still up to 3rd party publishers. If EA wants to require you to install and register Battlefield 4, that's how it's going to be. Some people white knighting for Sony also claim this is "no different than PS3". It's not the same as PS3.

4.) Just for extra clarification the PlayStation 4 does not and will not require a constant always-on internet connection.

Xbone does not require an always-on connection either.

That article does nothing but stengthen my point. We don't really know a thing until Sony comes clean. Not going to bother talking about this again until after E3, assuming Sony provides some real answers there.