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Can Sony survive in Japan with used game DRM?
long answer; nnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooopppppppeee
Short answer: nope
Can Sony survive in Japan with used game DRM?
In the US tethering requires an additional monthly charge and has to be unlocked by the carrier
Actually while nowhere as big as eu/us markets Japan does infact have a rental market for books games and dvds, and an expansive used game market too.Well IIRC Japan has no rental market, so used games are a huge thing. With you being able to do what you want on PS3, Vita, PSP, DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U, Sony would probably struggle in a country where people will trade a game in within 2 days of buying it because they finished it!
This "Polygon is in bed with MS bullshit!!1" really has to stop. It's silly.
Well IIRC Japan has no rental market, so used games are a huge thing. With you being able to do what you want on PS3, Vita, PSP, DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U, Sony would probably struggle in a country where people will trade a game in within 2 days of buying it because they finished it!
In the US tethering requires an additional monthly charge and has to be unlocked by the carrier
No.. this hasn't been the case for a while. We are free to do what we want now with our data plans.
Google "verizon tethering lawsuit", brah.
The real question is how can MS expect to revive themselves in Japan with the Xbone's used game DRM BS?
They aren't in cahoots with Microsoft. Their self-indulging and embarrassing documentary was sponsored by Microsoft (or rather Internet Explorer), their self-indulging and embarrassing reviews editor is a corporate apologist, and their soft-balling, review re-rating, exclusive review-taking, clique-tweeting and tact-lacking attitude rubs people the wrong way.I see a lot of allegations that Polygon is in cahoots with Microsoft. Is there any *actual evidence* for this?
LOL these people need to seriously get out of their parents basements and get a life, it's a video game console for Christs sake........you'd think Microsoft was selling their daughter into the sex slave industry.
No idea if TinFoilHatMan is, but I know one thing, he's an awful poster.
To be fair, the sex slave industry wouldn't have ownership over the daughter, but merely the license.
oh man I Fucking knew it. I responded to that guy... the like steam, nonsense, is obviously a taking point. But it falls apart with anyone who knows what steam is.
Well, that site wasn't founded up to $750k by MS in the first place ?
Biting the hand that feeds, eh? If that's so, then Polygon has got HUGE GUTS.
terrifyingly realistic
All it needed was more social/cloud/connected whatever.
Well, for now, we're all kind of safe. It's not going to be very different from the PS3, with a few changes, but who knows what the long-term future holds if MS ends up succeeding over these coming years. Maybe Sony will decide to take the absolute piss then too.All it needed was more social/cloud/connected whatever.
I don't expect them to bring up DRM during their conferences, but I *do* expect them to sell us the conditions that will *require* their DRM or paint those restrictions as an enhancement if you tilt your head and squint.
So I expect to see plenty of reasons why I would never, ever, ever want to be unplug my internet cable or kinect or whatever murder-death-fu- robot the PS4 will have watching over us.
Looks like Polygon saw their credibility in the gaming community going down precipitously (apparent Xbox favoritism, the outlier TLOU review score), and now they're in a desperate haste to salvage their sinking ship.
I remember visiting Polygon by chance--a site I never even heard of--on the day of the disastrous Xbox One reveal, and seeing absolutely no negative articles about the Xbox One whatsoever. Maybe they're trying to align themselves a bit more evenly now.