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Originally Posted by bubbsy
yup, i think MS are going overboard in their attempts to over monetize on things that have been open to gamers forever. That being said, is it clear that sony isn't doing this? I'd be shocked to hear MS has decided to announce all these restrictions that weren't their before, only to have the competitor not have any such new roadblocks.
Either that's where they industry is going (ie. both sony/ms are planning to monetize even more out of the existing consumer behaviours) or MS is just stupid.
I'm leaning to the prior, but hoping for hte latter.
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Sony hasn't released as much info as MS on the subject, but they have said that they will not implement mandatory game registration for any of their titles nor require any publisher to do so, but publishers may implement it if they so chose.
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At a roundtable this morning, Sony's game studios chief, Shuhei Yoshida, told reporters that any requirement for users to register a game online in order to play it would be left to game publishers. Sony won't require that."
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This clears up a few things:
1.) The PlayStation 4 can play games offline without having to be online. This was clarified the day of the PS4's reveal back on February 20th.
2.) Sony will not have any mandatory DRM for used games. You can buy, play, trade used games on the PlayStation 4 just as usual. No additional registration fees, pay-walls or internet registration required.
3.) If you so choose, you can play games from disc, download them from the digital store or remote load them. Sony doesn't mandate any method over the other for multi-format titles.
4.) Just for extra clarification the PlayStation 4 does not and will not require a constant always-on internet connection.
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http://www.cinemablend.com/games/It-...One-56264.html