J_Allard said:
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? 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. |
1. Does the PlayStation 4 always need to be connected to the internet, I asked?
"You can play offline, but you may want to keep it connected," he suggested. "The system has the low-power mode - I don't know the official term - that the main system is shut down but the subsystem is awake. Downloading or updating or you can wake it up using either the tablet, smartphone or PS Vita."
Are all of those things optional, though? For people who have broadband data limits, for example? They can customise everything?
"Oh yes, yes, you can go offline totally. Social is big for us, but we understand there are some people who are anti-social! So if you don't want to connect to anyone else, you can do that."
INTERNET NOT REQUIRED. COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. YOU ARGUING THIS SHOWS YOU PUTTING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND. NOT AT ALL LIKE THE XBOX1 (Caps so you can see it clearly)
2. Nothing different then whats been availbe this entire generation. The thought that EA is doing it because Sony has something for them is sheer speculation and flawed logic. The Sony exec says more than that. He says that people buy games and expects them to play it anywhere and that is what he expects too. HEAD. IN. SAND
