Comments | kiraseldon: You're kidding. Right? RIGHT!?

kiraseldon

You're kidding. Right? RIGHT!?

Nov 18, 2005 23:28

Sony's just filed a patent on technology to make a video game unplayable on any console except the one into which you first insert it.

Fuck you too, Sony. Fuck you very much.

Computer gaming looks better and better...

rants

Comments 9

Agreement! aletathuvis135 November 18 2005, 19:03:31 UTC

Playstation 2 had two great featueres:

It played Dvds
And
It played the old PS1 games.

Of course, you had to have the ps1 memory card to save but...

I guess Sony can't take the loss of sales that would've happened if people could re-buy the games for that console.

Re: Agreement! kiraseldon November 19 2005, 01:18:57 UTC

Yeah, really! I hope they realize how many sales they're gonna lose if they go through with this. I don't even BUY new video games, by and large, I get them all used... this would eliminate the used video game trade completely!

Re: Agreement! kiraseldon November 19 2005, 01:21:58 UTC

Well, to be fair, it would eliminate it *for Sony games*.

Apparently they don't want to have a unified online service for the PS3, either.

I'm sticking with my PS2.

kahmelon November 18 2005, 19:27:26 UTC

Screw that, I'll just play PS2 games for the rest of my life.

Sadly I have so little time to game that I'll end up doing that anyways just to get through the games I already have ^_^()

kiraseldon November 19 2005, 01:21:12 UTC

Ha.

Actually, I could probably play PS2 games for the rest of my life quite happily. Assuming my PS2 never breaks down *knock on wood*... graphics just aren't as important to me as story and character development.

sub_divided November 18 2005, 20:00:02 UTC

Stupidest thing I ever heard.

kiraseldon November 19 2005, 01:23:38 UTC

Well, Sony was also the company that made music CDs that would kill your computer; music CDs that would install hostile software invisibly on your computer; and now video games that can't be sold, traded, lent, RENTED... they kind of have a history of doing *incredibly* stupid things to hurt their customer base.

sub_divided November 19 2005, 01:54:44 UTC

It'll be a Japanese thing only if it ever leaves the ground at all. In the US the rental market is a significant percentage of the video game market, in Japan renting is illegal.

Those things didn't really take off though did they?

sub_divided November 20 2005, 05:19:51 UTC

Used video games are big business in Japan, though. That would kinda spike Sony's wheels.

As for those other things... well, each of them resulted in a fairly big kerfluffle and then died away without apparently hurting Sony's market share much. And Sony *is* still putting nasty stuff on its audio CDs...