**Rumor** MS/Sony tie games to console no used games

[Bluecast]

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/co ... urs-937822

[Who Really Cares?]

This has been going around since before the current consoles. Not going to happen anytime soon.

[Bluecast]

Little worried as SEGA and Ubi Soft ties my saves to a console. Won't let me copy or backup. Nintendo ties some digital games to a system and saves.

[MiTT3NZ]

This would be 100% foolproof and has exactly zero chance of backfiring in any way whatsoever.

[Samanosuke Akechi]

Hackers-"Challenge accepted"

[Spokane]

This would be 100% foolproof and has exactly zero chance of backfiring in any way whatsoever.

Sarcasm? No?

I can't tell its you mitts, your both serious and sarcastic all at the same time, it's who you are.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

This would be 100% foolproof and has exactly zero chance of backfiring in any way whatsoever.

Hackers-"Challenge accepted"

These men remember the PSP.

[Bluecast]

Hackers or not this would kill the sales of both systems

[Sonikku]

It would be suicide if only one of them was doing it, then gamers would merely jump ship. The magic of capitalism. But when collusion happens between competitors to get behind the same sordid game plan and effectively block off consumers' only escape route, it can work.

[Bluecast]

Imagine buying a DVD/Blu Ray but you are only allowed to watch it on one player.

[Sonikku]

That's actually not far from the truth, looking at the future. Always on DRM. As things become more convenient and people use physical media less and less, the powers that be plan to implement their idea of ensuring all movies you watch have to check before they can play. When you go to watch a movie, it cross references whether or not you are "entitled" to watch said movie you paid for over an internet connection to their server and if all the stars line up between the player/internet connection/HDCP they let you watch the movie. Hollywood in general looks to be moving in this direction in the next generation of home video, selling it to consumers as a convenience for not having to swap discs despite being a trojan horse of shackles underneath.

It would not surprise me at all if tying games to consoles is the way the gaming industry is moving in as well. On the contrary, with development costs rising next generation and developers screaming bloody murder at Gamestop for not paying a cent of used game sells to them, I suspect the dwindling 3rd party developers that remain are pressuring the consoles makers to do this. They want you to buy New, where they always get their cut.

[Sonikku]

Nobody would ever go for something this bad, it'd totally fail outright.

[Sonikku]

Why, if anything, EA thinks always on DRM is for our own benefit.

The industry insanity and self delusion is there. I'm not saying this is definitely happening, but it sure as hell is far from impossible. I can already see the way the wind is blowing in the entertainment industry.

[Who Really Cares?]

Hackers or not this would kill the sales of both systems

which is why its not going to happen plus they would lose support from stores that make money from pre owned sales.

[Riku Rose]

I'm just so bored of rumors for the next gen systems now.