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SvennoJ on 27 April 2016
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zero129 said:
Swordmasterman said:

Until the present moment the PS4K, is just a Rumor, that Sony, don't think that is worth vanish with it.

if hypothetically it became true, even so this will not be the same as DRM, because people of the entire world will still be able to play without aways online mandatory, and Microsoft, don't gave another option when they launched the Xbox One, Don Mattrick, said that if people don't like the idea of Aways online, that they purchase a Xbox 360 Instead.

I must admit i didnt get cought up in the whole DRM thing that time so i dont know much about it.

But i thought you didnt need it online always? i thought it worked kinda like the way Steam does??.

I also hear that they where allowing people to trade and sell their digital and retail games.

But like i said im not sure on the whole thing didnt really read up on it much.

Damn, where were you during the reveals :)

The original XBox One was going to require 24h check ins.
Physical games needed to installed and registered to your account, after which the disc would not be re-usable, merely an install disc that checks if the license isn't in use yet on another console. There were plans to allow some retailers to resell games for a fee, which would remove it from your account. Hence the mandatory 24h check ins to see if you still have rights to all your games.

Basically this would kill the free second hand market, no more ebay, no more lending to friends, only selected retailers. Plus no internet, no play.

After the initial backlash MS reveiled plans that you could share your games with upto 10 people by giving them access to your digital library where they could check out one of your games for a while. They never really made the details of this plan clear and speculations went from max 1 hour access (glorified demo) to groups of 10 people only having to buy one copy of a game with upto 2 people being able to play it at the same time on different machines across the country.

The whole DRM thing was scrapped and the game share plan never materialized. Consumers didn't want the former, and I guess publishers weren't too happy with the latter.


Anyway not comparable. Yet if few people buy the NEO it will be a short experiment as well. Ofcourse Sony could simply phase out the base model. It might be 349,- base + game, 399,- standalone Neo this year. Next year just standalone NEO at 349,- 399,- with game, no more base model.
Without a 299,- slim I expect sales to slow down. However if the NEO is a success somehow plenty of refurbished models will become available in stores from people upgrading.