Topic: Blocking used games...

[Lelygax]

They wanna do a amateur move? Let them. When the shit hit the fan they will learn from their error.

[X]

They wanna do a amateur move? Let them. When the shit hit the fan they will learn from their error.

Or they may never learn depending on how egocentric they are. When a company refuses to learn from past mistakes they fall and fall hard. Hard enough that they cannot even begin to pick themselves up off the broken concrete.

[Lelygax]

Thats exactly what I meant, they will learn, the only question is if its before or after abandoning the game market share. SEGA vs Nintendo have been a more interesting and enjoyable competition than Sony vs Microsoft vs Nintendo anyways...

Sony died for me since PS3 have abandoned backward compatibility, that my personal opinion.

[X]

Sony died for me since PS3 have abandoned backward compatibility, that my personal opinion.

I have an older PS3 so reverse compatibility isn't an issue. But it is for the newer models. However you can download reverse compatibility programs off the PSNetwork for the newer systems.

[JR]

I'm taking these rumors with a huge grain of salt. They said the same about the PS3 before it came out, but it never happened. My personal opinion is that Microsoft won't follow through with this.

The real pisser is that this idea will probably be thrown around for console generations to come.

[JR]

According to this Sony is not blocking used games for the PS4.

[Shiroi Koumori]

That is good news. But the price of the console is still an issue.

[KaZudra]

Lets time I saw, PS4 is in the $700 territory, which is bananas.

[Kingshango]

According to this Sony is not blocking used games for the PS4.

Your move now Microsoft. The fact that they haven't addressed it and Sony did is worrisome.

Lets time I saw, PS4 is in the $700 territory, which is bananas.

Im expecting it to launch at $599 for the base sku and $699 for the premium sku, no way will that thing  cost any lower than $500.

[X]

I also heard it was to be launched with an in or around $500 price tag. If it were to cost $700 then there's got to be some seriously expensive state-of-the-art tech in there.

[Abnormal Freak]

And it's when consoles cost that much that I start seeing the glory of the whole PC gaming thing. ;p My biggest reason for never having a PC of my own has always been initial cost of building one and also adding components over time to soup it up, whereas with consoles you pay a base price ($200–250) and never have to upgrade anything, save for the N64's expansion pak.

But when you have consoles costing upwards of $500, no way, dude. At that point, throw in a few hundred more and get a really nice gaming computer that'll last you a long time, not something that essentially has inferior tech out of the box.

[son_the_vampire]

ill pay $700 for just the controller {sarcasm }... im sure it will be promising and if not the first gen, then the updated, energy effiecient "slim" will be the one i wait for. This day in age waiting for a console launch just doesnt seem right. I live in NY and was lucky to grab a ps3 at launch... it could've easily sold for $1000 but i think it was worth more just having one (till it died on me) Best part was being able to still play my older titles and not have to fork out $$$ on some uninteresting launch titles. Im glad Ps4 isnt going that used game route. Could Los2 be pushed and be a successful Launch title you think? or even a Collectors edition Bundle like PoR did for the DS.... ahhhh dreams!

[Ratty]

And it's when consoles cost that much that I start seeing the glory of the whole PC gaming thing. ;p My biggest reason for never having a PC of my own has always been initial cost of building one and also adding components over time to soup it up, whereas with consoles you pay a base price ($200–250) and never have to upgrade anything, save for the N64's expansion pak.

But when you have consoles costing upwards of $500, no way, dude. At that point, throw in a few hundred more and get a really nice gaming computer that'll last you a long time, not something that essentially has inferior tech out of the box.

Particularly considering how much you could save just waiting for steam/gog Christmas and summer blowout sales. Potentially hundreds of dollars a year.

[Abnormal Freak]

Yeah. And I'm tired of getting forked over on poor console ports, particularly when on release the superior PC version costs TEN BUCKS LESS.

In addition to wanting a PC instead of the next Sony/MS systems, I want an all-region Blu-ray player, so I might as well get a tower, put a nice BD-ROM drive in there, and watch Region B/C discs that way. For a year I've been toying with the idea of getting a dedicated, hacked all-region player, but it makes more sense just to get a nice PC and some good software. I'm dyin' to get the UK Blu-rays for Tetsuo: The Iron Man/Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Zombie (new master from the negative, better than the shit we got here), Return of the Living Dead, and the upcoming Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator BDs currently being scanned/cleaned up from the negatives in Germany. There's also the Cowboy Bebop TV show Blu-ray that's oncoming, so hopefully that'll be no less than Mighty Sweet Titties an' Ham.