No used games on the PS3?

[LunarWeaver]

My Game Informer this month had an article that said Sony has patented some fancy-pants technology that allows them to include a code on their games and have the ps3 recognize that code the first time it's put into the system and only allow it to work on that playstation from then on. In other words, you have to buy your own fresh copy and cannot buy used games or swap with other people.

Sony says just because they created it doesn't mean they will use it, and I hope to Ganasha they don't. I love Sony and all, and I understand the used game market hurts the industry a lot, but I'm one poor fellow! I need to buy 10-20 dollars games! Agh, if they do this I'll just buy a Revolution...

The article was small in the magazine, barely taking up the bottom corner...Maybe it's not even a big deal yet?

[Flying Mullet]

Wow, I missed that when I was reading it through. Which page is it on?

[LunarWeaver]

It was near the beginning...This comp isn't at my house and the magazine is so er haha...Check around all the news and Loose Talk stuff. It was a left a page I think the bottom left corner. Should be a little PS3 picture.

[Maxico]

This was brought up a while ago and Sony denied it.

End of story as far as I'm concerned.

[Dreddz]

That would suck, but i dought they will go through with it ....

[KentaRawr!]

That would really stink. o_o I mean, that would REALLY stink. I like buying games for $20!

[Dreddz]

Sony would lose more money if they went through with it to be honest ..

[bipper]

How would that be possible? I mean, imagine it. You throw a 'read only disk' into a console that has no real guarenteed internet connection, or network with a home server - or other devices. How would the PS3's be able to 'serialize' a disk and recognise it as being unique. Let alone, how would a server of these serialized disks hold any integrety at all?

It just does not make sence. I think GI = toilet paper if they claimed this to be true. If it is true - damn.
Bipper

[LunarWeaver]

Maxico says this was brought up and dropped already, and that's good enough for me. I refuse to accept Sony would ever do such a thing...In fact, I never made this topic! I deny everything! No such technology exists *Shakes fist in anger*

[Endless]

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=73466

[crono_logical]

Read about this a while ago

Basically, the theory is each game disc is encrypted with it's own key, and a decryption key is stored on an erasable part of the disc. When the disc is put into the console, the console reads the key and stores it locally, destroys the copy on the disc (think of erase disc for CD-RW), then uses the local key to decrypt the disc to play it. On subsequent inserts of the disc, the console will find the local matching key for the disc and use it to decrypt the disc since there's no key on the disc any more. If the disc goes into another console, it can't be read since the key's gone - only the console that first took the key can read it.


Also, Sony aren't a company to take their word for - after all, they've distributed rootkits (malware, plus makes it easier for viruses to hide themselves) on "audio" CDs deliberately which install silently on user's PCs, then took their time firstly admitting it before admitting the huge security impact it imposes on people's PCs. They're still taking their sweet time undoing the mess they've made, trying to water it down so people forget how bad they really are.


PS3 will not be a console for me

[Maxico]

Sony is in essance a group of fairly unrelated companies that mostly work independantly. Therefore one devision distrubting Malware in no way invalidates another devision explicity stating that they will not include these security measures on the PS3.

[here for a limited time]

wow, bye bye gamestop

[edczxcvbnm]

The patent and everything is there but Sony would make too many enemies if they did this. Say good by to Video rentals...not to mention game stores seeing as how they couldn't buy back games because of this and then resell them which is the huge majority of their profits.

It is a stupid market plan. This is probably something that they thought about and came up with as anti-piracy but upon actual market analysis decide it was retarded.

[fantasyjunkie]

Oh, I hope you are right, they would lose out on 3 or 4 hundred bucks from me if they ever did anything like that. For example, Half Life 2 got such an angry response I havent seen anyone else go down that road. And that's just a game publisher, not a big wig like Sony. I think Sony would be risking too much for them to risk doing something like that, especially if Microsoft and Nintendo are not.