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J_Allard on 08 June 2013
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Max King of the Wild said:
J_Allard said:

You're not missing anything, it's just a way for Sony guys to excuse the fact that Sony is allowing DRM on their console.

I mean, look at the OP. It is essentially a collection of non-answers and loaded responses that essentially spell out a system where if publishers want to limit your ability to loan/rent games, limit your ability to buy/sell/play used games, and mandate a connection to the Internet, Sony is allowing them to do so. MS simply took it a step further and made it a standard policy on the console.

Best to just wait for E3 or closer to launch for Sony and publishers to fully spill the beans. But it's clear the only people with their "heads in the sand" here are the people shouting about how different this is than Xbone or how it's "just like PS3". It's not. The bottom line is a publisher can do everything they can do on Xbone on the PS4 as well. Sony is allowing it. So it will just be a matter of whether or not the publishers do it.

Ahhhh yes, the biggest offender of them all. Yes, lets look at the OP and all those non answers... Of them confirm multiple times internet is not a requirement and used games can be played... Yes... keep piling that sand on your head buddy.

Yes, publishers can limit the ability of loaning or renting games... with online registrations.... BUT WAIT... That requires an internet connection that Sony confirmed is not required.

I honestly don't know what to tell you. I mean.. you have right there in front of you a quote from a top Sony exec telling you they're leaving the option for game registration there and the choice is up to the publisher. Sony never came out and said an always-online Internet connection was required for PS3 and yet there are games on PSN that require it. And that is a DRM that is worse than what you get with Xbone.

At the heart of all this you have a contradiction. You can't say used games working on the console is entirely up to the publishers, plus game activations are up to publishers, AND also say you don't require any sort of Internet connection. The first two would not work without the other, unless Sony is using some form of DRM that doesn't require the Internet. And in that case, then Internet being required or not required would be entirely irrelevant since the DRM is still there.

"you can go totally offline" doesn't mean much stacked up against all the other quotes about DRM being left up to the publisher. Use your head. I mean, Major Nelson could tweet tomorrow that you can go "totally offline" with the Xbone and he would be right. You don't seem to understand corporate speak at all.