05-30-2006, 02:21 PM
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Sony are going to have a problem with this as a concept to implement. Just think of how many stores there are in you area which rent games.
Now, I occassionally rent a game if i am looking for a quick blast of something over the weekend - and in my local store you can rent a movie and a game over the weekend for £6. Now back when i bought my first PS2 in early 2001 i rented alot of games simply because i couldnt afford them after forking out £400 for 2 games and second controller as well as the ps2 (obviously i wasnt married then!!  )
This worked well for me as rental was cheaper then and i played about 30 games for the price of buying 2!!
My local store turns over nearly £3 million in games rentals and sales annually (there are 4 games rental stores in a town of 45,000 people) so its serious business. Sony would have a serious problem trying to justify that you couldnt resell games and by the same case rent them as only one person would be buying the licence.
The other side of this licence issue would be that the games therefore should be possible to copy as once i would have my licence and games disk, i would have to copy it so as not to damage the original disk and since the licence to play one disk of the game would be mine, and my ps3 will only play one disk at a time, what legal justification would Sony have to make the games duplication proof?
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