Microsoft is future proofing you with DRM

[Euphoria14]

pbroy said:

Euphoria14 said:

People don't need to think outside the box as everything they need to know is right in front of them. They are already looking at it in a real world sense whether it applies to here and now or years in the future.

 

 

The box that I was talking about is people automatically hating the online registration DRM, just becuase it has it. In the real world, policies can change. But if the system doesn't have it from the start, then it's not universal. This is where the 360 failed with the optional hard drive. This where the PS3 failed with the no vibration in controller, because it's last gen.

Xbox One will have mandatory registration from the start. Lets say some PS4 devs decide they also want to protect their games the same way as Xbox One. Guess what, you just became fragmented. Some games will have an online counterpart and some games won't. Your online library will be lacking some games, unless you purchase the online counterpart. Like you said, you can go strictly digital, if you want to. That would be the only way to garuntee you registered as owning a game.

There is something that PS4 doesn't have. It's TV... :P

Ok, for real now. You can transfer your license to other people, you can't do that on PS4. Which could be another option of selling your game. Where else can you sell a digital copy you bought?

Ah, I gotcha, and yes I know that when it comes to digital it is nice that you can sell your games. However, I believe if you buy a game from someone that way it becomes locked to your account permanently. I could be mistaken, but I am pretty confident that is the case. 

Still, it's much better than any other digital selling option you have, even with it's catches.

 

Originally when I heard about the registration thing I was hoping it was a system where the game comes with a re-usable code that can only be linked to one system at a time, so when selling it you could de-activate the code and the disc is free to go on another console. Kind of like how with itunes how I can only link my device to a certain amount of machines and if I wanted to link it to another I would have to de-activate any of the other machines.

Don't know exactly if they could have done something like that here, but it would have been a nice thing.