Sony Patents A Method For Digital Trade-Ins And Gifting
This patent is apparently for a method of digital gifting, as well as digital trade-ins. Gifting, of course, is mostly standard on digital platforms now, but it’s trade-ins that are interesting—digital software cannot be “traded in”, which is usually a knock against it relative to physical, but it seems like Sony is at least exploring ways to enable that on PSN.
Patent filings are not always indicative of final functionality and features—a lot of time they are just preemptive, filed by companies to be monetized should another company seek to implement their functionality. I can only hope that this (and Sony’s backward compatibility patent filings) is not one of those examples, and that Sony will actually look at implementing something like this, because in terms of digital ownership, this is a massive step forward beyond any other platform on the market. Plus, digital gifting will help make up for the blow of not being able to purchase digital game codes from retailers anymore.
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DashiiPosted:
Two_FacedDashiiTwo_Faced If I'm understanding this right, you can trade in a digital copy of a game for a set amount of "currency" relative to the product, country, or PS network. Okay, but what do they do with the "trades?" The whole point of trading in a used hard copy of a game was to sell it for half the price, becuse it was half the quality. Can't tell you how many times I've bought a game from GameStop that had prioblems loading/ was scratched and wouldn't load past a certain point. Seems like a way to make you think you are getting a deal on somthing, when really it should have been at the "trade in price" in the first place. Just another reason I don't buy games at launch and wait until they are cheaper. I got $350 last time I sold my Xbox one X because I had multiple games on it with Xbox Live codes still. I actually hate PlayStation. Just another reason to not buy one imo
You're trading in a pre-owned game. Doesn't matter about the quality. The alternative to this is that you can trade in your digital games and once you buy them, even if you have finished them or don't like them, you can't trade them in. It's not the best way of doing this probably but stop complaining about something that doesn't negatively affect anyone. I don't get your point about you buying games that don't work. That wouldn't happen with this because it's digital. They probably won't even resell the games
You totally missed my point. The point is, it's a digital copy of somthing. There is no hard copy to "trade in"
Basically are just giving them a game to get another game for cheaper (aka trade in), another game that should have been cheaper in the first place. I'm not complaining, I'm saying this is a waste and a rip off to anyone who has bought he game. When GameStop does this with physical copies of games they have and actual physical copy to sell to someone else.
Sony aren't the ones deciding exactly how much every single game is. They're essentially giving you a way to use a game you don't want anymore to get another for cheaper
ZemaPosted:
This is a great idea I hope Xbox does something like this in the future with the whole trade ins
Two_FacedPosted:
DashiiTwo_Faced If I'm understanding this right, you can trade in a digital copy of a game for a set amount of "currency" relative to the product, country, or PS network. Okay, but what do they do with the "trades?" The whole point of trading in a used hard copy of a game was to sell it for half the price, becuse it was half the quality. Can't tell you how many times I've bought a game from GameStop that had prioblems loading/ was scratched and wouldn't load past a certain point. Seems like a way to make you think you are getting a deal on somthing, when really it should have been at the "trade in price" in the first place. Just another reason I don't buy games at launch and wait until they are cheaper. I got $350 last time I sold my Xbox one X because I had multiple games on it with Xbox Live codes still. I actually hate PlayStation. Just another reason to not buy one imo
You're trading in a pre-owned game. Doesn't matter about the quality. The alternative to this is that you can trade in your digital games and once you buy them, even if you have finished them or don't like them, you can't trade them in. It's not the best way of doing this probably but stop complaining about something that doesn't negatively affect anyone. I don't get your point about you buying games that don't work. That wouldn't happen with this because it's digital. They probably won't even resell the games
You totally missed my point. The point is, it's a digital copy of somthing. There is no hard copy to "trade in"
Basically are just giving them a game to get another game for cheaper (aka trade in), another game that should have been cheaper in the first place. I'm not complaining, I'm saying this is a waste and a rip off to anyone who has bought he game. When GameStop does this with physical copies of games they have and actual physical copy to sell to someone else.
MazePosted:
C4Maze I just hope the trade ins are not as bad as gamestop was, getting barely any money back
I think it may be something like steam. I recall seeing something around 2018 about xbox allowing refunds but then seen any updates on it.
I'm pretty sure there is a way to convince Microsoft support to refund a purchase but I think they will only do it once, if they have make an actual method for it like this I will more than likely use it cause all the hyped up games end up being broken and trash.
DashiiPosted:
Two_Faced If I'm understanding this right, you can trade in a digital copy of a game for a set amount of "currency" relative to the product, country, or PS network. Okay, but what do they do with the "trades?" The whole point of trading in a used hard copy of a game was to sell it for half the price, becuse it was half the quality. Can't tell you how many times I've bought a game from GameStop that had prioblems loading/ was scratched and wouldn't load past a certain point. Seems like a way to make you think you are getting a deal on somthing, when really it should have been at the "trade in price" in the first place. Just another reason I don't buy games at launch and wait until they are cheaper. I got $350 last time I sold my Xbox one X because I had multiple games on it with Xbox Live codes still. I actually hate PlayStation. Just another reason to not buy one imo
You're trading in a pre-owned game. Doesn't matter about the quality. The alternative to this is that you can trade in your digital games and once you buy them, even if you have finished them or don't like them, you can't trade them in. It's not the best way of doing this probably but stop complaining about something that doesn't negatively affect anyone. I don't get your point about you buying games that don't work. That wouldn't happen with this because it's digital. They probably won't even resell the games
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