This idea that the video game industry is above all other industries (imagine if you didn’t REALLY own the car you bought.  That if you sold it the person you sold it to only got the chasis and no wheels until they payed the original manufacturer more money.  Or imagine if you bought a book and didn’t REALLY own it and if you sold it or let your friend borrow it chapters were missing unless they payed the author more money.)  Thinking about it like that makes you see how absolutely ridiculous this is.  I think I am done with the console gaming industry after this generation.

Oh & forget about asking a buddy to borrow a game to try out…or swapping titles after you each have completed the respective game.  

If you don’t have a desktop or decent laptop then thats too bad but other wise you could download the game and play, if you like it then buy it

sooo much better in my opinion 

discs leads to pirates
ways to hack system
less reliable than a hard dives
they would need to sell it to business for much cheaper so they can also make a profit

all these restrictions maybe a way to push as towards downloading right from them  for higher profits. 

mass effect on psn £49.99 hmv 27.99 discount= amazon £22.99
fifa psn  £55  hmv £29.99 amazon not checked maybe a lot cheaper
call duty mw3 psn ? live ? amazon around £29 tesco £25 when brought with psn £25 points hell yeah.   

hell no. if this is the case. good bye console  
if psn and live sells games through downloads only it will be for directs profits. they would get twice as much then acting as a supplier

they woul have full control

If a game is locked to an account I have to log in at my friends house as me to play, hopefully saved games will be cloud based and not on the HD and that’s a death to renting games as they will be useless once registered to someones account and I assume you MUST have an intenet connection to play which is stupid, internet for online games and updates only, a console should be capable of playing games offline.

Now, they stopped making units that had BC in them back in 2007 (the first 40GB model, I believe), but any unit that was sold with it still has it.

By stopping the backward compatibly, and now locking a game to a console. So when kids of divorced parents change houses they cannot take games with them? When they have friends sleep over they cannot bring games? When your console dies or is stolen , you have to buy everything all over again? Both Sony & MSoft forgot it’s younger kids that drive the market. They have almost total failure of developing games for younger players, or considering their lifestyle. They are not developing the younger audience to keep a pipeline of buyers to make future purchases. One of the reasons for PS2 success was PS1 games played on it (with only a couple exceptions), that allowed for a console system upgrade , continue playing games you own, and the ability to move into the next “tier” of games. Both Sony & MSoft have lagged in sales to Wii. Is it any wonder why? Wii although technologically inferior to either of the other systems was backward compatible with game cube. It allowed you to play your existing games AND it gave you the ability to experience new things like the Wii remote which caused purchases for new titles. One of Sony’s biggest mistakes was there was virtually no software for the console when it was launched. Since you couldn’t play your old games, you had to wait for new new titles to be released , or new compatible versions of old titles. Sony effectively made their console not worth purchasing. Never mind the fact that most parents were not keen on dropping $900 (vs $350 for Wii) on a console for kids when almost every title of software was not age appropriate for younger players.