Thanks!

Exactly. Now instead of a system built around digital sharing, we get the exact same shit we did last generation. Online passes and consumable keys and my friends never buying the games I want to recommend because demos take 3 hours to download and 3 minutes to play.

And you know what? If that was all microsoft had done, if they had come out and said 'we're allowing you to trade in used digital games on our store' and not implemented a restrictive DRM policy that would have been a smart move that would have sold a lot of xbox-1's and convinced a lot of hold outs that digital…

Unless you live in the UK you are SoL. At least Microsoft has a framework for their Used games, and aren't trying to go completely digital, no matter how much everyone is up in arms about it.

I'm actually okay with this. Here is what teh guy said on Gamespot:

Aaaaaaaaand Sony is doing exactly what Xbox 1 is doing... no points and points taken for bagging out MS

And just like that, all of the goodwill from yesterday's "nuke" vanishes.

Oh come on. Give us a straight answer. You can't take all that thunderous applause last night based on nothing.

So.... How is this better than what Microsoft is doing? Sell me, Sony fans

Well that's a bit different to what he claimed yesterday.

Optional DRM is different to no DRM.

EDIT: A misunderstanding in wording. I assume he means things like online passes when I thought he meant more a system enforceable DRM.

Yep.

So that instead of buying a ten dollar rechargeable battery pack when your current one hit the end of its limited life, you'd have to buy a new sixty (?) dollar controller?

What's really sad is some people are reading this who are unemployed and would kill to be in his shoes.

The people participating in this conversation are thoughtful internet folks. Quite hard to come by :) Hehe..

Because clarity doesn't cause as much traffic as confusion bro.

I read that, but I wasn't really sure on the whole order of events here. Came across as very strange But I do agree, if this was said last week at the press conference, this article should have been out as soon as the Shack article was out.

It isn't back pedaling when they announced that they had much more info to share with us and many things to clarify when they did the original reveal.

Heh, I'm already a broke ass-college student. It's not like Sony, Microsoft or publishers can fuck us over anymore anyways.

Gamers are an odd bunch.

I always wait at least a year or so, I figure the games are usually better by anyway. Also, I'm about to be a broke-assed college student.