Sony to go full retard with PS4
Sony to go full retard with PS4
PS4 will lock out used games, and no PS3 game compatibility
http://www.gamespot.com/news/next-plays ... rt-6368582
http://www.gamespot.com/news/next-plays ... rt-6368582
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PS4 no comment LOL
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Sony lost my support a long time ago, so this doesn't surprise me.
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good, no more playing with poor people.
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Meh. I'll wait until that's official.
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Who cares. Consoles are for kids.
Thick, solid and tight in all the right places.
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"They" claimed the next XBox was going to do this as well, but that has been refuted as pure speculation. I'll see what happens. I've rarely bought used games so I don't think I'd be that bothered by it. What would bother me though is if this prevents me from sharing games with my brother, which we've done on a few occasions.
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for once me and the dipshit agree...gg homo...LawL wrote:Who cares. Consoles are for kids.
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You're supposed to get a console to play new games, not old ones. Consoles are cheap cause they're sold at a loss which is covered by the licencing cost of games. Sony know what they're doing.
Backwards compatibility can be fun, but when the resolution of the screen is going to be higher, and the games weren't made with that in mind, what you need is updated conversions. If people are getting a new generation console and only playing old games on it, they're being skanks and they kill progress.
You'd be as sensible if you complained that your Blu-ray player doesn't have a VHS cassette drive
Backwards compatibility can be fun, but when the resolution of the screen is going to be higher, and the games weren't made with that in mind, what you need is updated conversions. If people are getting a new generation console and only playing old games on it, they're being skanks and they kill progress.
You'd be as sensible if you complained that your Blu-ray player doesn't have a VHS cassette drive

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When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii
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Notable exceptions being all of Nintendo's game devicesDon Carlos wrote:When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii
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Memphis wrote:Nice 20 year out-of-date factoid there grandadDTS wrote:Consoles are cheap cause they're sold at a loss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader#ExamplesWikipedia wrote:In the current generation of consoles; both Sony and Microsoft have sold their consoles, the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively, at a loss and made up for it through game software and accessory profits.
Moron.
Only the GameCube was different, which they made to be sold at "break-even or higher prices" - "BREAK EVEN" meaning NO profit - so they still were supposed to get their profit from game sales.
When consoles are first launched is when they are at their highest priceDon Carlos wrote:When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii

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The PS3 is £190 in Argos. How is that $800? Australian dollars? 

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Well they said the blue laser diodes* were very expensive ("Them blue lasers are expensives"), which made the price of the PS3 very high until they figured out a way to make the blue laser diodes cheaper.
*(for the Blu-ray drive)
*(for the Blu-ray drive)
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GameStop could refuse to stock PlayStation Orbis, says Pachter
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People want freedom, they don't want to be treated like feedbags. Backward compatibility can mean a lot for those who care.DTS wrote:You're supposed to get a console to play new games, not old ones. Consoles are cheap cause they're sold at a loss which is covered by the licencing cost of games. Sony know what they're doing.
Backwards compatibility can be fun, but when the resolution of the screen is going to be higher, and the games weren't made with that in mind, what you need is updated conversions. If people are getting a new generation console and only playing old games on it, they're being skanks and they kill progress.
You'd be as sensible if you complained that your Blu-ray player doesn't have a VHS cassette drive
1. will give extra intensive to upgrade their system, sooner rather than later because they know that even though they will slowly build up a new game library, they will have their old games to content with, without having two systems set up all the time, while also enjoying some new game releases.
2. better performance means better loading times for old games (as well as performance), hence better experience.
3.why does the old games have to run in super high resolution? can't they just run at their own resolution? lol?
4. both systems are using bluray, so nobody is forcing them to fit in there two diff. formats, so your dvd/vhs argument is unfair, and idiotic.
I don't even own a console , but that kind of regression in this market is pretty much guaranteeing that I never will.
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Cause they would have borders.Tsakali wrote:3.why does the old games have to run in super high resolution? can't they just run at their own resolution?
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obligatory "lol, consoles"
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notable is that nintendo charges outrageous fees to publish for their platforms, and that they charge topdollar for all peripherals.Eraser wrote:Notable exceptions being all of Nintendo's game devicesDon Carlos wrote:When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii
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Don't people want backward compatibility simply because there's limited space under a TV, and having three consoles under it might make you look like some kind of cunt?
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I am fully aware of mass market economics, but you are also missing out on the other side of production. Yeild become higher on the componants they use in the new systems. Take the PS3...the blu ray lazer diods had an attrocious yield rate when they were first made hence the £400+ price of the PS3. The 360 had a slightly more standard PC based system without blu-ray so was cheaper, but even still, it was expensive because the tech used was quite up to date.DTS wrote:When consoles are first launched is when they are at their highest priceDon Carlos wrote:When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii, cause they haven't gone into such massive mass production yet, to keep the costs down. (The more they make, the cheaper it is. That's mass market economics.)
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Hey, Don Carlos, nice to see you're so knowledgeable on the subject (some of which I already stated in the thread, i.e. blue lasers) but I don't see what your point is.
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but trix are for uLawL wrote:Who cares. Consoles are for kids.
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