No PS3 pre-owned games if the rumours are true

[dick dastardly]

Will Sony be releasing any good news this year?

"High street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

We assume that the thinking behind this move will ultimately be to stop PS3 games being resold several times - which currently snatches potential sales away from Sony - and to counter the impression in consumers' minds that games are only really worth their pre-owned price and are not worth buying new.

When we contacted Sony, it issued us with the following statement: "We have made all of the official announcements at E3 and cannot make any further comments at this time. We will be announcing more news running up to PlayStation 3's launch."


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

[wolves_wanderer]

So they want £425 for the console and at least £50 for the games which you don't own and can't sell?

microsoft said:

[mr_yogi]

Some Other Web Forum I Read said:

Originally Posted by Shifty Geezer Here's what my 'insider contacts' had to say : Sony are going to make second hand games illegal, but aren't ready to announce that yet. All the developers are really happy with this. They see the second hand market akin to piracy, with the shops making money off their work that cuts into their profits. The devs are going to drop all software development for XB360 and Wii in the middle of 2007. Apart from 1st party titles, there will be no games on any machine other than PlayStations. Some might question the validity of this info, but it does make sense...

[FourWheelDrift]

And just who is going to stop you selling your PS3 game to a friend or via a jumble sale or boot sale market. Perhaps Sony are going to employ spies who check up on all game purchasers on an annual basis where they cross reference reciepts with the games........... Oh I almost hope it's true.

[mr_yogi]

Weeeeeeellllllllllllllll, the conspiracy theorists are thinking that Sony are going to use some kind of ID Key which is downloaded from the internet and placed on your hard disk (a bit like Steam )?

Of course this kinda rellies on you having your PC connected to the net me thinks.

>> Edited by mr_yogi on Friday 26th May 17:19

[UncleDave]

There will always be a way round it

[mr_yogi]

In actual fact the only thing I can see this helping is to make pirate copies more appealing, if they crack the PS3 copy protection.

OT: Does anyone know if pirated games are available for the 360?

[Mr E]

FourWheelDrift said:

And just who is going to stop you selling your PS3 game to a friend or via a jumble sale or boot sale market. Perhaps Sony are going to employ spies who check up on all game purchasers on an annual basis where they cross reference reciepts with the games........... Oh I almost hope it's true.

Simpler than that. The games will require activation (so the PS3 will need to be online to do anything), and once activated and linked to that MAC address, they simply will not play on anything else.

Methinks it's bluff and bluster, and methinks that they'll climb down and have some sort of control that's less limiting, and the people will think they have won when in fact they have not.

[Civpilot]

Well if internet activation is required then they can stuff.... my PS3 would not be connected to the internet. period.

if sony did that they would deffo loose alot of sales me thinks.

[therossatron]

Rumours are false, not to worry!

[Mannginger]

mr_yogi said:

[quote=Some Other Web Forum I Read] Originally Posted by Shifty Geezer The devs are going to drop all software development for XB360 and Wii in the middle of 2007. Apart from 1st party titles, there will be no games on any machine other than PlayStations.

Having just bought a 360 I sincerely hope not!

Phil

[mr_yogi]

no need to worry it was verymuch tongue-in-cheek

[tim2100]

Shame they are rumours.

It would be great for XBOX 360 owners if they did that, as the sales will be non-existant for teh PS3 if you never own the games.

so to stay in business all the developers will go to XBOX.

[DucatiGary]

sony are also planning to sell new games through online download rather than in store, considering retail outlets make more on used games, and now they are being cut out of both new sales and used, I think there will be some very unhappy people in the industry.. .. .. .. ..

[deckster]

What bored hack dreamt up this non-news story? This just describes that way that almost all software is licensed anyway. Read the small print (you know, the bit that you always just click 'OK' on) and you'll see that you don't have the rights to resell it anyway. You never have 'owned' any software, you just have a license to use it, and these licenses are almost never transferable.

[therossatron]

tim2100 said:

Shame they are rumours. It would be great for XBOX 360 owners if they did that, as the sales will be non-existant for teh PS3 if you never own the games. so to stay in business all the developers will go to XBOX.

It would be great if Microsoft monopolised another market???

[ps2gamer890]

The whole PS3 is a complete farce. It costs too much, nintendo ripoff controller thing, blah blah blah. I'm getting a Nintendo Wii, my first departure from the world of Playstation ever.

[UncleDave]

Stick with the PCs

You can get a brilliant comp for the same price or upgrade yours to an excellent spec.

Then just wait a few months for the games to be made for PC in additon to PS3