Why compete when you can use control over the platform to eliminate competition?
Besides, if they buy the game back from you then they would have to acknowledge your right to sell it.
You draw at least one incorrect conclusion. There is no way that Microsoft is going to allow users to transfer their licenses so freely. I users could do that then there would be no reason to restrict their usage. If I could just transfer my license to you, then I don't have to give Microsoft or anyone else a cut. I could just give you my license to Gears and you could give me your license to Halo and we both keep rolling. The whole point of this entire excercise is to eliminate that ...
Ah yes, but he doesn't have to share his games because he owns them.
See what rights you get from owning something.
@Muerte2494
I don't think that the policy works as described in the article. Once the second user installs the game then the system prompts him to pay a fee, which is the cost of the full price of the game.
If it worked as it is described in the article then the internet wouldn't be going ape-$#!+.
P.S.
Microsoft is going to be vague on the issue until AFTER E3 because they don't want the gamers to know. They wa...
Microsoft isn't going to right any ship, they are doing exactly what they have wanted to do all along. They want to eliminate the used games market. In order to do that small developers must be forced to play ball or else. Can't have them going off the reservation later.
Pretty much.
A publisher who is afraid that if he uses it a large portion of his customers will move to a competing platform.
Yes, Don, I do want it to ignore the web, WHEN I WANT IT TO.
But, your machine won't play a game unless I connect to the internet to register that game. I'm not buying a game machine that does that, I don't care who made it, Microsoft, Sony, or anybody else.
Right now Sony says that they are not going to require an internet connection and you say that you will. Therefore I say that I am buying a PS4 and not an Xbox 1 Jr. If Sony says that they...
Will this Xbox mini have to check in over the internet every 24 hours?
JBallerX, the notion and definition of ownership is important. If Microsoft does indeed do what they are saying that they will do now (that's IF they do it), and you decide to buy it over the competition which does not. Then you will be weakening concept of ownership. That will make it harder for the next person to own and control what he buys. Then next generation they or some other company will go just a step further.
I had a PS3 and a Xbox 360; I gamed more on the ...
Hey, if your son is not connected to the internet then Microsoft doesn't want him as a customer anyway.
That is what they are saying isn't it.
Everybody has been so busy raising hell about the used games fees, fees that cost as much as the full game, and the mandatory 24 hour internet check in, that we have almost completely overlooked the fact that there is an always on camera that is connected to the internet sitting in your living room.
This isn't just a possible scenario. It is what they have been planning all along.
If by "re-think" you mean "don't do it", then I agree with you.
Root is right, this is what they are going to do, unless the hardcore backlash forces them the backtrack. Phil Harrison is an effin' VP, who was answering questions from the press. He gave a standard, vague, company line response to the question at first. It was only when Kotaku asked for further clarification did we get a clear answer. This is the plan.
In fact, seeing this makes me believe that the initial rumors were true,.... at that time.
And ...
Yes, damage control.
@Pyrrhus & LOL_WUT
They are on the same page. Microsoft still thinks that they can make this online required work but they can't if the gamers know the truth.
But, the truth has this uncanny way of coming out.
The hardcore gamers are freaking out. Microsoft can feel them lining up to buy a different console. Hence, we get more vague statements to cover-up the crystal-clear statement from a Micr...
Why,... their reason is that it's not about guns.
Platnium Games needs to beg, borrow, steal and do whatever else it takes to get Bayonetta 2 into the PS4 release window. It'll probably do 2 million copies over the first year.
There is a reason for that. It was really that bad. And being bad on Playstation is death for a hack-n-slash.
I think that the PS3 has already passed the 360 if you go by the actual numbers released by the Sony and Microsoft. That's what I had heard anyway.
That is the wrong question. The answer to your question has already been given, "it's up to the publisher" meaning if the publisher wants to charge, then the publisher will charge, but if the publisher does not want to charge, then there will be no charge.
But the correct question is, "Will the PS4 require online registration of its games before the games will work". I believe that question has been asked and answered already as well. I don't be...