Playstation 3 Won’t Play Used Games?
According to Games Digest, PS3Blog.net, and other sources, there is a rumor flying around that the PS3 may not play second hand games. The idea is that when you fire up a disc for the first time, it gets marked to play only in this particular console. The main purpose supposedly would be to help stamp out piracy, but it would also mean you can’t resell used games. Furthermore, you couldn’t take your game over to a friend’s house, or borrow his games.
I’ve never tried to pirate PS2 games, but don’t you have to have a hacked system to play pirated games even now? I’m pretty sure you can’t just make a copy of a PS2 dvd and have it work. Should this new rumor to turn out to be true, someone will have hacked the PS3 within about 5 minutes of its release anyhow.
Personally I just can’t imagine this could be true. I do see how game makers (and thus Sony) could make more money by stamping out the market for used games, but it just seems too suicidal. This would be a fatal blow to all but the most diehard Playstation fans, likely sending a great number of them to the competition.
Also, what happens if your PS3 dies and you have to buy another one? None of your games would work on the new console. Do you have to ship them all off to Sony so they can re-stamp them for your new box?
Someone point me to some evidence. I’m calling BS.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:14 am
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PS3 2nd Hand and Rentals Friendly Tuesday November 15, 2005
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Sony has reacted to recent rumors that claimed that Playstation 3 games would only be playable on the console they were first used on. The Japanese consumer electronics giant claims that this is not the case and that PS3 titles will be playable on any PS3 console.
The stories, which begun surfacing a week ago, suggested that a new technology would be introduced by Sony that would include an authentication code carried by each game. Once that code had been read by one PS3 machine it would be unreadable by others. This technology would mean the end of the second hand games market as well as the end of rentals. It was immediately suggested that the recent rants by Epic’s Mark Rein regarding the evils of rentals and second-hand sales was a sign that developers were on-board.
Sony has now gone on record regarding these stories to the Guardian in the U.K. and Jennie Kong, UK PR Manager at SCEE said: I would like to clarify that this is false speculation and that PlayStation 3 software will not be copy protected to a single machine but will be playable on any PlayStation 3 console.
This pretty much puts an end to the rumors, although the detailed accounts of how the authentication system will work suggest that Sony had, at some point, considered such a route. It is still not clear if the authentication technology will be used with Blu-ray at all or if it was simply a research project that will not be utilized in the market place.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Hello Dear Sir Or Madam, my name is James Lee
i will like to no if you do Carry or Sell Playstation - PS1 Games in stock
if you do pleses can you email me the cost of the 19 Sell Playstation - PS1 i hope to hear from you very soon
James
July 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
what about games like pes 2008? apparently you need registration code/ to play online and it cannot be transfered or reset?
March 9th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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