PlayStation 4 will not block pre-owned games - Sony exec confirms.

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The PlayStation 4 will not feature technologies that make pre-owned games unplayable on the newly-announced console, according to a senior executive at PlayStation.

After a long period of speculation regarding the PlayStation corp's stance on pre-owned games, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told sources that used games can function on the next generation system.

But he did not confirm whether PlayStation 4 customers would have 'original owner rights' to second hand games, or whether users might need to pay for online passes or other such rights.

"The general expectation by consumers is, if they purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere, right? So that's my expectation."

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CentPosted:

Sweet, this better be on the xbox also.

SOGPosted:

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Hall
Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They better, or it would be a huge mistake for Microsoft.


I see them doing it, what Sony did here makes up for the backwards compatibility issues.


I hope both features will work on the 720.


As do I, I don't think it's that easy to use backward compatibility though. They are disks designed for that specific console, however they may add downloading old games like the PS4 is doing.

imgurPosted:

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Hall
Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They better, or it would be a huge mistake for Microsoft.


I see them doing it, what Sony did here makes up for the backwards compatibility issues.


I hope both features will work on the 720.

imgurPosted:

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Zwrq
Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They should, IMO.


It wouldn't be a smart decision on Microsoft's end,IMO.


If they don't they'll take a huge hit.

SOGPosted:

Hall
Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They better, or it would be a huge mistake for Microsoft.


I see them doing it, what Sony did here makes up for the backwards compatibility issues.

HallPosted:

Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They better, or it would be a huge mistake for Microsoft.

PGAPosted:

Zwrq
Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They should, IMO.


It wouldn't be a smart decision on Microsoft's end,IMO.

imgurPosted:

Woobie Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


They should, IMO.

imgurPosted:

CL4PTRAP I hope microsoft don't block pre owned games they will loose alot of monies


They'd be dumb to...

WoobiePosted:

Good that will save a lot of people money, hope Xbox follows the same route.


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