Sony slaps gamers in the face....again

Motoman · Post by **Motoman** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:28 pm

http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/ps3/game/n ... ionId=1006

[PS3] Sony makes moves to stamp out lucrative second-hand market
Words: Matt Cundy

Wednesday 24 May 2006
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."

So to sum it all up, Sony is trying to make their games their own property and the gamer plays $50+ to just play the game and therefore he can NOT sell the game disc. Jeez, is Sony trying to lose next gen on purpose!!

daleighan · Post by **daleighan** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:29 pm

Wow sony is stupid

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:31 pm

Yeah! people finally begin too see it! Now let's sing it all together: Sony is stupid sony is stupid. (k this whole post was a joke not a nintendo to playstation flame)

Post by **Skyone** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:50 pm

Oh my god, it's just like their dumbass music thing they did a while back. I really don't give a crap, I'm going to buy PS3 games just to resell them.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:53 pm

Haha Xbox 360 and Wii will win!

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:10 pm

as i said before

Wii will
Wii will
rock you

Wii are the Champions!

Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:28 pm

It was rumored they were going to do this. I just never thought they'd be so stupid as to implement it. I mean seriously, they may think they'll be getting more profits since all games will be bought new, but now videogame stores and customers alike will be mad. And with the high price of new games this next gen, I bet more people will wish they could buy pre-used games.

Just checked out the Sony forums, and most of them are just calling it false. I still think Sony might try this, since they've done it before with music CD's. Who knows, but I really hope if they do decide to go along with this that people'll be very against it. Perhaps it will just take a relatively bad selling console for Sony to realize they must think about the consumer.

Xiro · Post by **Xiro** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:28 pm

there will be ways around it. if you can rent games from blockbuster then you could rent a game to EB for 9999 years without technically selling it.

Post by **Skyone** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:24 pm

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/24/rumo ... sony-nope/

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:39 pm

Really all Sony is doing is making a reality what the music and movie indestries want to do. Tell you that you don't own the product you bought. Infact Windows is that way, you don't own it you simply are using it under the license agreement by Microsoft.

Sony doing this as I mention when I first read this is that people are not going to buy as many games as they normaly would. Why would you when they make it harder for you to sell off old games? You'd likely buy ones you know you'll be coming back to and rent the others.

Sony may think this is a good way to keep pirate at bay or make more money, but it wont. It will only alienate their customers.

eastsider_1 · Post by **eastsider_1** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:26 pm

First off, how reliable is GAMESRADAR? Second, no one knows how good the Wii will be, same goes for PS3. As for the XBOX 1&1/2, look-up reviews on how good it is. Many reviews say it could be better. Just wait, and look up the reviews online, then buy the system if you still want it. Besides, I don't think Sony will do something like that. Do you hear of Nintendo doing obsurd things? I don't. Only time will tell.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:47 pm

ya nintendo dont do such things couse Nintendo thinks things through.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:10 pm

Wow I was about to put the PS3 behind the XB360 if this was true, thankfully it isn't. But it would have been a great thing to ridicule.