http://kotaku.com/5896996/the-next-playstation-is-called-orbis-sources-say-here-are-the-details
Oh goody ♪
Urgh, well thats no good. I guess i'll hang on to my PS3 then. Its not a huge deal, but that still sucks.
Deeply, deeply upsetting. There's just so much wrong with that entire quote I don't even know where to start. Say goodbye to buying used games. Say good bye to good old fashion trading games between friends and family(Sony: FUCK nepotism) Goodbye rentals, I'll miss yee. The games you buy are now locked to your PSN account. That's a little extreme don't you think?
My favorite bit is how you can't play PS4 games unless you're hooked up the internet. There are so many problems with that statement alone. My ethernet cable is on the 3rd floor vs my PS3 that's on the bottom floor. The wireless connection is utter ass, so I barely play online PS3 games. Now you're telling me I can't play unless i'm connected period? Hell, there are times where I don't even want to go online because I just want to play a game without getting PMs / requests from friends and the like.
I'm a dedicated gamer, but I might just skip out on the PS4. There's just too much bullshit. Hopefully its just a rumor, but Kotaku and Sony are pretty tight so i'm not sure. These are dark, dark times.
EDIT: Oh and the "one account per game system" is already in place for the Vita. So if you and your brother wants to play a game under seperate accounts than you're fucked. It's like taking 1 step forward and 3 steps back.
Oh goody ♪
SO LONG, PS3 GAMES
Remember how the PlayStation 3 swiftly dropped the ability to play PS2 games? Well, our main source tell us the Orbis won't even bother, and that Sony has no plans to offer backwards compatibility for its existing catalogue of PS3 games.
Urgh, well thats no good. I guess i'll hang on to my PS3 then. Its not a huge deal, but that still sucks.
SO LONG, USED GAMES
BACK IN DECEMBER... A post left on Pastebin back in December also referred to the PlayStation 4 as Orbis, calling it a codename in the same vein as Microsoft's Durango. The system specs in that post differ significantly from what Kotaku has heard, and the lack of a hard drive by default goes against the idea of downloading full games to the system.
The Pastebin post also mentions that big name developers like EA were disappointed by an Orbis much less powerful than Microsoft's next machine, so there's a chance that it's the story of an earlier prototype that didn't make the grade. We've reached out to EA for comment.
Just like the next Xbox/Durango, we've heard from multiple sources that the Orbis will likewise have some kind of anti-used games measures built into the console. Here's how our main source says it's currently shaping up: new games for the system will be available one of two ways, either on a Blu-Ray disc or as a PSN download (yes, even full retail titles). If you buy the disc, it must be locked to a single PSN account, after which you can play the game, save the whole thing to your HDD, or peg it as "downloaded" in your account history and be free to download it at a later date.
Don't think you can simply buy the disc and stay offline, though; like many PC games these days, you'll need to have a PSN account and be online to even get the thing started.
If you then decide to trade that disc in, the pre-owned customer picking it up will be limited in what they can do. While our sources were unclear on how exactly the pre-owned customer side of things would work, it's believed used games will be limited to a trial mode or some other form of content restriction, with consumers having to pay a fee to unlock/register the full game.
This would allow used games to continue to be sold at outlets such as GameStop, while also appeasing major publishers who would no longer have to implement their own haphazard approaches to "online passes".
Deeply, deeply upsetting. There's just so much wrong with that entire quote I don't even know where to start. Say goodbye to buying used games. Say good bye to good old fashion trading games between friends and family(Sony: FUCK nepotism) Goodbye rentals, I'll miss yee. The games you buy are now locked to your PSN account. That's a little extreme don't you think?
My favorite bit is how you can't play PS4 games unless you're hooked up the internet. There are so many problems with that statement alone. My ethernet cable is on the 3rd floor vs my PS3 that's on the bottom floor. The wireless connection is utter ass, so I barely play online PS3 games. Now you're telling me I can't play unless i'm connected period? Hell, there are times where I don't even want to go online because I just want to play a game without getting PMs / requests from friends and the like.
I'm a dedicated gamer, but I might just skip out on the PS4. There's just too much bullshit. Hopefully its just a rumor, but Kotaku and Sony are pretty tight so i'm not sure. These are dark, dark times.
EDIT: Oh and the "one account per game system" is already in place for the Vita. So if you and your brother wants to play a game under seperate accounts than you're fucked. It's like taking 1 step forward and 3 steps back.