Edge reports durango to block used games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[danawhitaker]

I kinda dont see it as a crazy risk making a console not able to not play used games. I think nintendo microsoft and sony are all tired of getting their profits raped by gamestop. If good games are made for the ps4 and they are reasonably priced people will definitly buy them. I know there are other places to buy used games, but I think many consumers only have the choice of getting video games new or used from local retailers, so they always end up at gamestop.

The one risk I see is what happens when a game's been on the market for a year or two, and you can't *find* new copies anywhere. Then you're forced to go the Gamestop route. If Microsoft theoretically does this, that means that publishers will have to keep up the supply of games or people won't be able to find them at all. And while I know they don't directly make money off the second-hand sales, they might still end up losing out on potential revenue from DLC purchases as well as just making consumers frustrated at not being able to find what they're looking for.

I've sometimes wondered if that hasn't driven used sales a bit. When I'm buying games for my daughter, I always try to buy new games because they're usually gifts. But occasionally I've run into titles that have been out for several years that I wanted to buy her that I couldn't find new anywhere local. I could sometimes order online, but I couldn't find a new copy in stores to save my life. Perhaps they'd do a better job of this under the locked-to-console model.

[bb_hood]

The one risk I see is what happens when a game's been on the market for a year or two, and you can't *find* new copies anywhere.

I would agree with this in the case that you would need a disc to play, as opposed to downloading all the content from the playstation network. I think eventually there will be no media and the content will all just be transferred online and bought from the playstation network. I think this would eliminate the need to go out looking for older games. The current library of games currently on the playstation network is pretty big, and over time the older stuff gets cheaper (so many really good cheap ps1 titles for example), and they often have sales. They dont remove the older titles from sale so nothing becomes rare or unavailable, just cheaper.

[danawhitaker]

I would agree with this in the case that you would need a disc to play, as opposed to downloading all the content from the playstation network. I think eventually there will be no media and the content will all just be transferred online and bought from the playstation network. I think this would eliminate the need to go out looking for older games. The current library of games currently on the playstation network is pretty big, and over time the older stuff gets cheaper (so many really good cheap ps1 titles for example), and they often have sales. They dont remove the older titles from sale so nothing becomes rare or unavailable, just cheaper.

Yeah, some of us still prefer purchasing physical media though. I love technology, but I have yet to embrace digital content. Blizzard games are my only exception to this, and that was to negate standing in line on launch night so I could play with my guild immediately when the expansions went live for WoW. Developers have already said that this generation won't be fully digital, so I may have to worry about that a generation or two from now. But not yet.

[bb_hood]

Yeah, some of us still prefer purchasing physical media though.

I understand this and I think alot of people feel this way. Its ultimatly up to sony to create a product that you want to buy. Here is an example of how I think digital downloads CAN BE (not nessecarily ARE, though) better than buying media on disc. Both me and my brother wanted to get Marvel v Capcom Origins so we could play together online. Its a 15$ download in the playstation store. The game was not released on disc because its probably not finacially feasable and/or there is just not a big enough audience. Also, because you can share your account with one other user, we were able to split the cost and share the download, so it cost us both 7.50$ each, and we both can play it all we want. If we needed the disc we would have each had to buy our own hard copy, which also would have cost more due to packaging costs.

[Words iManifest]

Edited...Sorry, had a few windows open and replied in the wrong topic and not sure how to delete.