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"If you buy it, you own it": Sony CEO Andrew House tells all about PlayStation 4

“You could argue that it’s a storm in a teacup - a very vocal minority of passionate gamers,” says Sony Computer Entertainment chief executive Andrew House, speaking to Yahoo! News in Los Angeles this week. “This huge outpouring of feeling around the concept of ownership of content. But I have to say I don’t see it that way.”

British-born House was speaking in the wake of Sony’s press conference at the E3 game show, where Sony revealed that, unlike rival Microsoft, it would not use a digital rights management system to allow publishers to control the resale of used games.

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DxTrixterz3960d ago

That's how it should be. You have a lot to learn M$ from Sony.

komp3960d ago (Edited 3960d ago )

This story is like the worlds financial system.

SONY = GOLD (physical)
MS = FIAT CURRENCY, paper money (re ponzi scheme)

If the system collapses, your either left holding useless/worthless bits of paper that no one wants or your left holding physical gold.

I know which one I would want to have.

isa_scout3959d ago

Very well said, bubble for you my friend.

Why o why3960d ago

It's proper scary and saddening to see people STILL making excuses for licensing like this for physical games. Anything to defend their console makers honour...even if its at their own detriment. Smh

ThanatosDMC3959d ago

Yeah, it's really sad. Just check those people on Xbone's facebook page. They're either hardcore fanboys that oblivious to being bent over or are MS employees to try to control the internet fires.

ainsz3959d ago

What bugs me is that today we're expected to be thankful for basic consumer rights. It should be industry standard and should be expected of the companies like Sony or MS to apply.

lucaskeller13960d ago

Apparently ms forgot basic consumer rights, way to go microsoft

AllroundGamer3960d ago

it's the american way, the government owns you just like the companies... you own nothing even when you pay for it, you just borrow it.

scofios3960d ago (Edited 3960d ago )

Microsoft " if you buy it we own it ".

strigoi8143960d ago (Edited 3960d ago )

Microsoft theme is "whats mine is mine and yours is mine"

Honest_gamer3960d ago

u know my fiancee has the same theme :O

Protagonist3960d ago

"If you buy it, you own it"

My thoughts exactly!

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10 Weirdest Video Games of All Time

Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.

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6 Games That Genuinely Deserve A Current-Gen Upgrade

Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.

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Hammerwatch II Will Stop Dilly-Dallying and Head to Xbox and PS4 on April 23

"Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23," says Co-Optimus.

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