Originally posted by DanielChanning
exactly that could have been 200 bucks more in the pocket thats how they look at it
Yup.. if Sony had their way a house with 4 brothers in it would all have to buy 4 PS3's and 4 copies of the same game. Its ridiculous! Name another product like this..
DVD's/Blueray - region encoded but region free players are available (or purchase 2 dvd drives, they are cheap enough now, set one to EU and the other to USA and you can use whatever disk you want!). Easily shared among people in the same house.
Music CD's - Copy protected.. but easilly gotten around. Anyone with a cd player can borrow and use the same cd.
books - physical NOT ebooks, they can easilly be shared by people in the same house
ebooks - there is software to remove protection for such files.. easilly shared among anyone in the same house
actually.. this list could go on forever! People can borrow each others clothes, sunglasses, cds, dvds, mobile phones, car, motorbike, ANYTHING!! With consent of the owner of course! Why should console games be any different?
This 2 downloads per account is ridiculous too! Considering there are now THREE PS3 consoles having been released.. think about this.. say you bought the first Gen PS3 fat.. bought some things from PSN. The it broke so you bought the new slimline PS3. Now they have just unveiled the superslim PS3.. my question.. what if you want to upgrade from the PS3 slim to the superslim? You CAN'T then redownload the PSN content you paid for onto that console because its a third PS3 and they only allow 2!
SOOOOOO by limiting it to 2 downloads.. means they are crucifying their new superslim PS3 because a large majority of people that would have bought it would be unable to use the content they have paid for! So Sony are restricting people that would have spent more money on Sony products simply through greed!
If you buy a physical copy of a game you can share that all you want! Apart from perhaps online content, but how many games want a subscription to play online anyway!?! Any download games.. limited to 2 consoles. If they make it so the games are encoded to only the single user that bought it.. they better remove the TWO consoles only thing! Say I own 5 PS4's.. one in my bedroom, one in my living room, and another in my office I would like to be able to play my purchased games on all three! If sony say I cant without having to buy the game again.. then I will get either an xbox or return to being a pc gamer.