O veste buna: PS4 nu va bloca jocurile second hand!

[MonkY]

Intrucat stiam deja ca Sony a patentat un mod prin care jocurile second hand sa nu poata fi rulate pe o alta consola, ne asteptam ca la anuntul noului PlayStation 4, sa vedem aceasta mare problema ca devenind o realitate. Din fericire, conform interviului acordat de catre Shuhei Yoshida (seful Sony Worldwide Studios) celor de la Eurogamer, nu este cazul! PS4 nu va bloca jocurile S/H, asa cum se zvonea. Ba mai mult, acesta a facut o gluma, intrebandu-l pe reporter daca chiar isi doreste acest lucru. Funny, heh!

Mai mult, alte surse spun ca "anti used-game patent" nu ar avea nici cea mai mica legatura cu PS4, si ca ar fi un patent prin care jocurile ar detine un tag ce ar putea ajuta gamer-ul sa isi catalogheze colectia proprie si sa elimine posibilitatea de a-l vinde din greseala. Yeah right!

Acum, eu nu stiu ce sa zic... decat ca astept cu nerabdarea "Holliday 2013", ca sa vedem daca are dreptate Mr. Yoshida sau nu. Sper ca si Microsoft sa faca aceeasi "greseala". Aveti mai jos "interviul" complet:

I sat down with Yoshida a few hours after the PS4 reveal tonight and one of the first things I asked was whether used games would be blocked.

"Do you want us to do that?" he asked.

No, I said. I think, if you buy something on a disc, that you have a kind of moral contract with the person you've bought it from that you retain some of that value and you can pass it on.

Do you agree, I asked?

"Yes. That's the general expectation by consumers," said Yoshida. "They purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere, right? So that's my expectation."

So if someone buys a PlayStation 4 game, I asked, you're not going to stop them reselling it?

"Aaaah," was Yoshida's initial answer, but seemingly only because he'd forgotten his line. "So what was our official answer to our internal question?" he asked his Japanese PR advisor. The advisor stepped in but didn't seem to answer clearly, at least to my ears. Yoshida then took control again firmly:

"So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?"

I said I thought that was fine.