Well said.

I don't understand this brand loyalty people have to companies that screw them over.

Microsoft and Sony should be begging us for our hard earned money, not have people defending them through some sense of loyalty to a brand.

are u not reading or something...i just said i can play my games without going online and u keep bringing up online passes on third party drm when they cant if i dont go online. point is

1. I can play my games on ps4 without ever going online

2. I can allow my friends to borrow and play those games or rent them without going online.

You cant do any of those on xbox. stop bringing up online passes and all that bs because u know that the biggest problem with all this is the fact that they wont let you play your games on xbox without going online which is a load of bullshit. 

Very glad you got the point of the thread. Many did not and just came in defense of Sony or argued about the patent itself instead :)

Now, we can still talk about DRM of course!

Regarding your point, I am not disgreeing at all. I think it would be hard to argue that no-DRM is better than DRM for the end user :)

My reality is that, on a personal stand point, it does not bother me that much; and at the same time I really find the fact that you need to connect to the internet once per 24 hours really not as drastic as some seem to believe. I have a lot of game on Steam and it is way more drastic than that... Same for downloadable games on console... I actually see this as an advantage (because you install the game and forget the disc)

Now, if the console makers let us sell back our game online on in-store (and it looks like we will be able to do so), then the only draw drawback is to be able to lend a game disc to a friend... But again, you cannot do that with digital games or most of the PC games today.

Two people that get it.  Stand up for yourselves people; do what YOU want.  Stop talking like you are on the board of directors for any of these 3 companies.

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?

And this is just another example of no clarity or real answers being taken and interpreted as an actual answer. If you click the link for "buy, play, trade used games on PS4" in the article, you see all the Sony exec really says is "PS4 can play used games". The Xbone can play used games as well.

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.