I have often said, especially in private, that this sort of technology is entirely feasible, easily implemented, and would mean the death of whichever company employed it first. Nintendo and Microsoft, if Sony employed this, would have fodder to use to lure former Sony users over en masse; Sony does not care about you, wants to violate first sale doctrines with an end run, wants to drive game stores to extinction, etc. They'll not just grab market share, they'll grab a lot of good will from companies like GameStop who would likely 'accidentally' undership Sony products or constantly move them to the rear of the store, etc. Remember, for all the ills associated with them, Sony NEEDS GameStop to move physical merchandise. They have a higher market penetration than anything else in terms of brick-&-mortar locations. Which means that for physical disc sales done in person, as well as moving the console itself- which is something of a concern, one would think -you need GameStop on board. And if you make negating used sales a cornerstone? No, they won't be on board. Not even close.
tl;dr: The only way Sony uses this technology is if they are suicidal or utterly delusional to the point they think they can just skip that minor in-person element of video game sales entirely.
