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Here the article details about how playing a used game on a console other than the first one it was played on may be out of the question for wannabe PS3 owners. Although this may cut back on piracy and may help solidify potential sales of games to consumers, this is definetly a huge blow to the gaming community if it goes through. No more letting friends borrow, buy, trade games. No more taking a game over to your friends house to beat up on him/her in PDZ... unless you bring your $300+ console out of the house to brave the harsh elements like the infamous dropping bug and spilling influenza that goes around (though you dont have to leave the house for this to happen). The choice came from the higher ups, as well as Ken Kataguri himself. Unless they allow some type of exception code or similar, tis will be a sad day for Sony Loyalist and Fanboys alike along with the rest of the PS3 potential customers.
Here the article details about how playing a used game on a console other than the first one it was played on may be out of the question for wannabe PS3 owners. Although this may cut back on piracy and may help solidify potential sales of games to consumers, this is definetly a huge blow to the gaming community if it goes through. No more letting friends borrow, buy, trade games. No more taking a game over to your friends house to beat up on him/her in PDZ... unless you bring your $300+ console out of the house to brave the harsh elements like the infamous dropping bug and spilling influenza that goes around (though you dont have to leave the house for this to happen). The choice came from the higher ups, as well as Ken Kataguri himself. Unless they allow some type of exception code or similar, tis will be a sad day for Sony Loyalist and Fanboys alike along with the rest of the PS3 potential customers.
This also would not hinder piracy at all. Piracy isn't taking a legal game from one house to another, its mass producing a single copy. In this case it claims to be removing the authenification code from the game dvd after it is read in (as if Sony would spend extra on a DVD writer feature). Easy solution, make copies before you try to load the game on a console. Also, what happens if you had a hard drive crash (or whatever permanent storage is being used with the ps3). Now you have a bunch of games you can't play and a broken ps3. This would kill the legal game rental industry which Sony wouldn't want to do either. It's fake and not going to happen.
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