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 It seems there is a possibility that Sony is planning to make PS3 games playable only on the system they are originally played on, and if you look around a little on the internet this isn't just a rumor.
 This would mean for $60 you would beat a game in 8 or 10 hours and that's that, no trading it in, no renting games for PS3, no taking your games to a friends house and no buying used games.
There is a lot of doubt that they will actually go through with it, but considering how Sony likes to stick it to their customers it really wouldn't suprise me if they did.

 I also discovered that Sony music cd's apparently install some kind of spyware program on your PC that can't be removed without a phone call to sony, I heard they are being sued over this deal, they are also being sued for all the junk PS2's they sold that would start getting disc read errors after a few months of use. I know for the first year after the PS2 launch pretty much every one I knew had to buy a second PS2 due to this problem.
 Then they put out the PSP with known issues that wasn't covered in the warranty.

 I just thought I would put this info out there in case anyone hadn't heard about this stuff, or if anyone has more details.
 So when the PS3 launches, now they are saying maybe 2007, possibly with a $500 or $600 price tag, you will get no hard drive, a boomerang for a controller, a half assed online gameplay setup and $60 games that are useless if your machine dies...what a deal.


 

Man, if that's true, then that REALLY sucks. Not that I was REALLY planning on getting one, the 360 looks a bit better IMO, but now I really don't want one.

I think there'll be a very quick U.turn from Sony on this one if it was ever true in the first place.

As for the software to prevent piracy of their music CD's they are withdrawing that due to Lawsuits against them making changes to your computer without your permission  and Microsoft classing it as a virus.

As for the software to prevent piracy of their music CD's they are withdrawing that due to Lawsuits against them making changes to your computer without your permission

The Makers of StarForce may be sweating.

Clown

Another crappy measure to ensure that it a game can only be played by one person. I would say almost everyone who owns a console has borrowed/swapped games from their friends for a while, simply because you do not stay interested in the same games for all eternity. If this does go through, I bet they'll lose a lot more money on lack of PS3 sales, than on games being reused by others.

 I never loan games out, sometimes my woman will let her niece borrow a couple of games but they are usually older ones, she never lets them take anything recent, it still doesn't make me very happy, I figure I had to pay to play it so should everyone else, and I have never asked anyone to borrow a game.

Sounds like my friend who only has one controller for his Xbox. Whenever my other friend and I go over he always wants my other friend to bring his controllers. Finaly one day he just said no. He needs to get his own extra controllers if he wants to play with friends.