Sony Explains PlayStation 4 Digital Game Sharing

[FoolKiller]

OT: This seems like exactly what both the 360 and ps3 are currently doing. Why is this news?

It is what the 360 is doing. The PS3 originally allowed you to have your content restriction free on 5 consoles, then on 2. This is actually a step back from PS3 in this case. It is exactly the 360 system currently.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

So, exactly like PS3 but only 1 console instead of 2. Sucks if you constantly move between 2 apartments with 2 consoles. Not a dealbreaker though, way better than Vita.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Not a huge step forward, but the PS4's digital system is still a damn sight better than the pre-180 Xbone's digital prison.
Most importantly, IT DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH USAGE OF PHYSICAL MEDIA AT ALL.
So at least the main appeal of home convenience is maintained.

Still, can't wait for those Xbone Heartbreaks to show up and ignorantly whine some more.

 

[FPLOON]

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Great job with the imbed guys! I love the way it can't even be read. I love it when that happens.

Clearly it's cause you're using chrome. Obviously IE is the best way to go

*Gasp* How DID you know? Are you a SPY? *forgets what we're all talking about temporary*

OT: At first, everything sounded familiar enough... and then they state that we can now have up to 2000 friends on our PSN on the PS4?!

FUCKING SOLD!!!!

I hate playing "highlander" with my lack of a limiting PSN friends just to add in new current ones...

The 2000 friends limit seems a bit out of the blue. Who cares about that, especially when it's impossible to make that many friends to begin with?

It's possible... if your THAT popular and you just so happen to show your PSN name in public simultaneously...

What is the point of increasing the cap on friends?

"You can never have too many friends..." *twitches*

 

[Shuu]

As long as I can take my physical games to friends' houses freely, I'm happy. But I do think if digital is to become to norm, the system limit will have to increase, or better, go completely.

 

[Evonisia]

The 2000 friends limit seems a bit out of the blue. Who cares about that, especially when it's impossible to make that many friends to begin with?

Just like with the Xbox One they assume that everyone is a YouTuber with several thousand subscribers all desperate to friend the person. Increasing to above 100? Sure, but in the thousands just seems silly.

 

[Yopaz]

I don't think this is drastically different than what the PS3 does now. Honestly, I wasn't worried. I'll probably buy most games as physical copies anyway. I just like have the discs to hold and snuggle and whatnot. Indie titles will probably be the primary things I download.

And this honestly doesn't sound different from one of the only versions I heard Microsoft was touting as their Family Sharing Plan that we would benefit from. The only other one that I actually believe being the "glorified Demo" version.

You almost gave me a fucking heart attack with that subtitle there.

After that article about the PS4 day-one patch to effective make the freakin' console work, I thought this was yet another instance of Sony shitting the bed. But thankfully this is only regarding digital game sharing not the physical copies.

I know the Xbone requires a Day One patch to fix all the screw ups and basically make the system work as it should have from the beginning. But haven't heard that about the PS4. Mind you, I may have missed that story.

It's not to make it work, it is to make the DVD and Blu-ray player to work for playing DVDs and Blu-rays. Because the games come on blu-ray discs people misunderstood a little. It will work right away, but knowing Sony you won't actually get to play before downloading the update (my main problem with PS3). Also I agree with you that this sounds exactly like how the PS3 works.

 

[JetFury]

Ps3 sharing was best. If theyre limiting that too then thats just another nail in the digital coffin