Is it Possible for Sony to a be a WORSE Company?

[Dylan Yoshi]

Yes, it is.

http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/ps3/game/news/article.jsp?articleId=20060524153157765035&sectionId=1006

What the hell were they thinking when they came up with that?

[Gold Jinjo]

What the hell were they thinking when they came up with that?

They like to put profit before consumer needs. Plain and simple. The second-hand market isn't profitable for Sony, nevermind the fact that it still makes up a large portion of the industry. But who cares about that... let's just do away with it and keep all the money for ourselves.

Scum of a company.

[Ice Lightning]

So basically this is just a scheme so that Sony can make more money by not letting you buy second hand games. If you want a game you have to buy it new from a shop. Sony seriously is just in it for the money.

Does this mean games can't be rented either?

[Gold Jinjo]

Does this mean games can't be rented either?

They can't be rented. You probably can't even take a legitimately purchased* game over to a friend's house... if that rumor in the past turns out to be true where Sony would lock a game to the first PS3 it's put in.

*Keep in mind that games you buy for your PS3 won't be legally yours. You're just "purchasing a license to use it". Now, tell me, why should a "license" then cost the exact same as the full-priced game on a competing system which you actually will own 100% of?

[Grey Jinjo]

I'm waiting for them to encrypt codes in the controller ports so you can't use any third party hardware.

[icegod]

A report from website GamesRadar claiming that it will be illegal to sell used software for the PS3 has been officially denied by Sony today, with a spokesperson telling GamesIndustry.biz that it is "false speculation."

GamesRadar yesterday reported that Sony was warning high street retailers that the sale of pre-owned games would be illegal due to the licensing terms of PS3 software, which would mean that discs technically remained the property of Sony.

However, a Sony Computer Entertainment UK spokesperson today outright denied that any such message had been conveyed to retailers - telling GamesIndustry.biz that following conversations with the firm's European parent company, neither division has "any knowledge" of such a strategy.

"We have definitely not been communicating that," UK spokesperson Jennie Kong confirmed. "It's false speculation. We don't have any further knowledge about this topic - either officially or unofficially, to be frank."

It would appear that the report is based on the resurrection of a much earlier rumour in this regard, which surfaced most recently last November with claims that PS3 software would "bind" to the first machine it was played on, and would be unusable on any other system.

At the time, Sony completely debunked the rumour - telling UK newspaper The Guardian in no uncertain terms that: "PlayStation 3 software will not be copy protected to a single machine but will be playable on any PlayStation 3 console."

[Mandy]

I'm waiting for them to encrypt codes in the controller ports so you can't use any third party hardware.

The 360 does that, I'm pretty sure it will be the same for PS3.

[Ice Mario]

Yeah, Sony flatly denied the rumour yesterday.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=17283

Doesn't affect me anyway, i'm not remortaging my house to get a PS3.

[P.o.t.O]

The Revolution is still better.

...or Wii.

[BKSonic1234]

I still don't plan on owning a PS3, or should I say, PEES3. :D

[Hakey Wake]

The PS3 is region-free, time for Nintendo to "steal" something from Sony. (for a change)

[Heffy]

.... Good lord. T_T

It's times like this that make me glad I'm a Nintendo fanboy...

[Tanjo]

wow i seriously considered ditching sony there, but seeing as it isnt true im sticking with them and nintendo (i might get a 360 for banjo).

[Gold Jinjo]

(i might get a 360 for banjo).

Are you really willing to pay 500+ dollars for spiffier graphics? If you do thats sad.

Are you willing to pay 500+ dollars just for Banjo? If you do that's sad ;)

:rwpunch :)

[Minjo]

.... Good lord. T_T

It's times like this that make me glad I'm a Nintendo fanboy...

I must agree.

[vaticandrummer]

The Revolution is still better.

...or Wii.

QFT


It seriously didn't surprise me that an article like that would crop up, rumor or not. Sony's a bunch of money loving bastards, and I'll wait patiently as they are obliterated in this coming console-war. I can't say I love Microsoft either, though.

Oh, and Mandy: my stepbrother owns a 3rd-party X360 controller. He doesn't use it for the X360 (but for PC), but if the X360 won't take 3rd-party controllers, then how come companies are making them?