PlayStation 4 to lock out used games

[Slacker Magician]

Hmm, looks like I'll stop spending money next gen. Maybe I'll be able to retire 10 years early, and play the backlog of games I own

Sounds like a plan .

Corporations doing everything in their power to increase marginal profit, even if it means fucking over their user-base? No way.

Rumors like this tend to underestimate the amount of used game sales.


As for the supposed resolution the console will render games at... Fat chance. Monitors, Projectors, and TVs capable of the resolution are in the 10,000+ range. The cheaper TVs and monitors are $10,000+, most don't even have a price. You would be better off hacking up a few low cost monitors and combining them in a single custom frame. Then consider the GPU requirements to play with acceptable graphics (IE. around the level of RE5). I can't see any single GPU, currently out, pulling it off .

I'm with crusher here, I don't buy used games, so this won't really affect me. But I can understand both points of view. Game companies need to make money and new games can be expensive, that's why people buy used games... perhaps big game stores should renounce to part of the benefits they get selling used games to reach a compromise.

They are a business all the same, why should they give up their profit because another company doesn't like the current laws?