On PS4 3rd Party Publishers Will Have Final Say On Used Games DRM
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Third-Party Publishers WIll Have Final Say On Used Games for PS4
In an interview with Game Trailers’ Geoff Keighley, Sony CEO Jack Tretton shed more light on how used games will work on the PlayStation 4. It seems that, while the system’s first-party games will be free to trade in or share without restriction, third-party publishers can choose to behave otherwise.
Tretton’s remarks start at about 1:08:00 in this segment:
“If the consumer pays x amount of dollars for a game and they don’t have the flexibility to get some additional value out of it, it changes the way the perceive the value of the game and it takes dollars out of their pocket to buy a new game... We just want to give the consumer flexibility.”
Asked what Sony’s response would be if publishers wanted to restrict used games sales, Tretton replied:
“We create the platform. We’ve certainly stated with our first party games, we’re not going to be doing that. But we welcome publishers and their business models to our platforms. There’s going to be free-to-play; there’s going to be every potential business model on there and again that’s up to their relationship with the consumer and what they think is going to put them in the best stead. So we’re not going to dictate that. We’re going to give them a platform to publish on."
On DRM:
"The DRM decision is going to have to be in the hands of the third parties. That’s not something that we’re going to dictate or mandate or control or implement."
Tretton also said that a PlayStation Plus membership will be a mandatory purchase if you want to play multiplayer for PS4.
Third-Party Publishers WIll Have Final Say On Used Games for PS4
In an interview with Game Trailers’ Geoff Keighley, Sony CEO Jack Tretton shed more light on how used games will work on the PlayStation 4. It seems that, while the system’s first-party games will be free to trade in or share without restriction, third-party publishers can choose to behave otherwise.
Tretton’s remarks start at about 1:08:00 in this segment:
“If the consumer pays x amount of dollars for a game and they don’t have the flexibility to get some additional value out of it, it changes the way the perceive the value of the game and it takes dollars out of their pocket to buy a new game... We just want to give the consumer flexibility.”
Asked what Sony’s response would be if publishers wanted to restrict used games sales, Tretton replied:
“We create the platform. We’ve certainly stated with our first party games, we’re not going to be doing that. But we welcome publishers and their business models to our platforms. There’s going to be free-to-play; there’s going to be every potential business model on there and again that’s up to their relationship with the consumer and what they think is going to put them in the best stead. So we’re not going to dictate that. We’re going to give them a platform to publish on."
On DRM:
"The DRM decision is going to have to be in the hands of the third parties. That’s not something that we’re going to dictate or mandate or control or implement."
Tretton also said that a PlayStation Plus membership will be a mandatory purchase if you want to play multiplayer for PS4.
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We pretty much knew this going in.
The difference between PS4 and XB1 is that with XB1, it's so ingrained into the system that there isn't even a mechanism that will allow you to do things like trade or rent games. With the PS4, you can, unless the game developer specifically makes it so that you can't. At that point, it's on that game company not Sony. -
And all those Sony first party games will remain drm_less
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Let's see which publishers out there fancy ? off their customer base.
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dontdiedontkillanyon wrote: »Let's see which publishers out there fancy ? off their customer base.
yup we bout to found out easy this way lol. I be you EA gon be one of them that wants used game DRM. They already make you have that code to play online with they greedy ? .
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Didn't they eliminate the code rule though
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Lmao
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earth two superman wrote: »And all those Sony first party games will remain drm_less
correct all first party games will remain DRM less just the 3rd party games are on a studio by studio basis.
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earth two superman wrote: »Didn't they eliminate the code rule though
yep .......... so they could lay the blame on the console makers and make themselves look like the good guys. 2 years in a row voted worst company in America -
but they brought back battlefront so everyone loves them again
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earth two superman wrote: »but they brought back battlefront so everyone loves them again
true im sure ea/dice will make it goat since they do battlefield too but still ? ea's greedy ass
