SvennoJ said:
CladInShadows said:
Only thing that gives me hope is that Microsoft essentially does it with all its backwards compatible games. But you do need to insert the disc the first time. Still, there are other ways to register your game online if Sony wanted to allow it.
Also, there is no way in hell Sony will charge 700 or even 600 for a discless console. I'd say best case scenario is 500 for disc based and 400 for discless. More likely though is 500 and 450. But if Sony wants to succeed, they will not charge 700. Play Asia has no inside info.
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Don't you need to insert the disc every time you play the game to verify you still own it? What would be stopping people from passing the disc around to get free games? For a disc less console you would somehow need to send in the disc to switch to a digital license.
And yup, depending on how much Sony likes the digital margins, the could easily drop the disc less version down $100. New games are the same price on PSN as in stores, sometimes still even cheaper in stores. That's a lot of extra cash for first party games. (Dunno how it works with 3rd party but I guess Sony charges some money for hosting it on the psn store as well)
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You know what, you're right. I was under the assumption that there was some kind of unique identifier in the disc that would or could transfer it to a digital license. In the case of the PS4, I'm sure there must be something...bar code, some serial number on the disc. Something that could only be redeemed once.
Or maybe there isn't and I'll be getting a disc-based console.
