24th May 2006, 11:18 AM
It's a rumor so far, but I really hope I don't end up having to agree to a EULA on a CONSOLE, or worse, the horrid days of the "open this box and you agree to the liscense agreement inside".
From what I understand, EULAs are the main reason why you can't find used PC games in used game stores, all that often.
It would surprise me if Sony did this, so I'll wait for some sort of official statement, but a move like this would certainly undermine everything Sony is trying for in realms like no more region encoding and a development kit right out of the box for the system.
It may not be as "cost effective", but the best method for preventing others from selling their games to people is to make the games too good to want to give up. Trite, but true.
From what I understand, EULAs are the main reason why you can't find used PC games in used game stores, all that often.
It would surprise me if Sony did this, so I'll wait for some sort of official statement, but a move like this would certainly undermine everything Sony is trying for in realms like no more region encoding and a development kit right out of the box for the system.
It may not be as "cost effective", but the best method for preventing others from selling their games to people is to make the games too good to want to give up. Trite, but true.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)