" Well let's see here... There is a big used game market that will get mad if we charge extra fees for playing used games, since if they could pay more they would actually buy new, and there is also the matter of HDDs, since we are forcing people to install the games on the internal HDD despite our Blu-Ray drive, we should charge for that too!
Also, we will still force people to have stable internet connection!
What's that, our competitors don't do that? They are giving these features out for free?! Well, I guess we'll just have to follow suit otherwise this would create a massive decrease in popularity and profi--
@andon13 But the PC scene has reason for that -- Games Installed on your PC are launched through a modifiable launcher file, usually an exe.
On consoles ,the game cannot operate without the disk while on PC it can.
And the option to not be able to re-sell your games on PC was actually what killed the PC gaming scene back in the early 2000's. It's thanks to Steam and it's crazy good deals that you don't even need second hand games, they are selling them dirt cheap anyways.
Once a day? So if my Internet goes out for more than a day ( It does that lot, **** my ISP), then woopdy do, I have an ugly VHS-looking console in my room that doesn't work?
Muh durrr.
Well, hacking is going to solve that anyways. Since it waits 24 hours, that means the system has an internal clock. That shouldn't be too hard to bypass.
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