Landguy said:
The disc is what Sony conceded on. They knew that consumers and even their own systems weren't prepared to go all DRM all the time. So, they went with the approrach that they were thinking of the consumer by not forcing DRM. A great story and as it turns out, a GREAT sales pitch. Meanwhile, they work slowly to ensure that there is no competition to their service on the dominant selling system. By default, they have created DRM. If 2/3 of the market is on your system and must go through your system only to get the content, then they have most of the control and the gamers and publishers have none or very little. It was just a brilliant play on people emotions to have physical media. |
Nice flawed logic. 2/3 of the market don't have to go through anything, they can just buy a disc and play to their heart's desire.
Also, PS is a closed system which by definition has no competition, as everything goes through PSN store anyway. Nobody is stopping EA, Ubi or Acti to deliver their service. They only need to find a willing medium to do it (seems like there is one).
And also, all of a sudden PS4 has 2/3 of the market. Nice to hear that, particularly after all those threads propagating a narrowing gap, being overtaken by XOne etc. Seems that June NPD report will be astonishing.
Buy more tin foil...