If they have no actual function, paid for or not, why does anyone care then? If someone happens to like that one pink chiffon nurse's outfit (again, I have no idea what this game even is), pay a couple bucks for that one and ignore the rest. If anyone's in their house MAKING them buy all the DLC at gunpoint, they need…

Yeah, I know some of them are exactly that; Twisted Metal's doing the same thing for example. I just meant I don't get why they use the term "online pass" to reference the buy-new incentive of free downloadable content for a virtually offline game.

"...I support a company and buy a game new at $60 yet they don't give me a code to get the DLC..."

In the example of Tales of Xillia, we're talking about what? Costumes for the characters? Is this game like Pokémon where you Gotta Wear Them All? I doubt it (correct me if I'm wrong though; never played anything from that series). So giving the players the choice of which costumes they want sounds pretty good to me.

To clarify, I said, "...Sony doesn't care a lick if GameStop makes money **from a used game they see $0 in profit from**," not that they didn't care about GameStop in general. Despite the problems, they obviously make a lot of money via GameStop and wouldn't want to see them fail.

It's David Jaffe, I'd be surprised if he DIDN'T say something like this.

In-game unlock or buy what you want? Sounds fine to me.

Well, they did remove the GBA slot from the DSi in the first place, which led to the 3DS not having it either. So, insert that into the example if that works better for you, since the DSi wasn't the complete leap to the next handheld generation that the 3DS is. It was just a tweak of the hardware gen that immediately…

Of course, the slim version will most likely remove the slot for VITA physical memory...

"The Vita is a successor to a handheld with spinning discs."

"Is the used market here in West that much different from Used games in Japan?"

Yeah, like I said, it does look weird on the surface, but I do get why it's Yes for Japan and No for anywhere else: Licensing, country size, crime/piracy rate, etc.

More densely packed population. On average the Japanese are more honest than most other cultures. Used games that could exploit this program are less of a thing there. International licensing. Take your pick.

"All my friends were playing their own PSone games on their PSPs by ripping themselves."

Ugh. The problem is people are being entitles asses about this situation, and THAT is waaaaay more ridiculous than comparing beta to Blu-ray. But if you want to keep harping on "beta, beta, beta" just so you'll be right by default, go ahead.

"Is there worry that a customer (a paying customer, mind you, that is now paying twice for a game) would turn around and sell the game to GameStop or Best Buy or something?"

Right... because hackers need taunting to do what they're going to do anyway.

It doesn't mean they have to keep supporting them.

Do you mean hack it to run digital versions of PSP games?

Whoa, I must've not tried it in Skyward Sword. Granted, I've only put about 4 hours into it. I think it could end up being my favorite Zelda yet, but there's too much to play right now. #firstworldproblems