Fellow PS3 owners: Sony may stop second hand gaming!

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Old 01-03-2013, 07:41 PM
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Fellow PS3 owners: Sony may stop second hand gaming!

Thoughts, feelings? If this is as bad as my brain is telling me, I may be switching to Xbox.


IGN Article - Report: New Sony Patent Blocks Second Hand Games
http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/01/03...ond-hand-games
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Damn....

Im glad you brought this up, makes me think about buying an Xbox now.
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Originally Posted by theoutbackdream
Damn....

Im glad you brought this up, makes me think about buying an Xbox now.
Jokes on you, Microsoft has been researching similar patents for project Durango

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Jokes on you, Microsoft has been researching similar patents for project Durango

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....so?
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xbox>ps3 anyways. hmm hmm hmm
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Originally Posted by bkblitzed
xbox>ps3 anyways. hmm hmm hmm
I knew this reply was bound to show up. I've always been a PS3 fan boy (since FFVII was exclusive to the PS). I always heard the better quality of gaming that Xbox put out... But this may just finally get an Xbox in my home. And it seems that lots of game DLC comes out in XBL before PSN, and I'm an impatient man...
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i just feel like ps3 has better single player games and xbox has a better multiplayer lol. No need to bring in the console war, but in the end pc wins all lol
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Originally Posted by theoutbackdream

....so?
So your knee jerk reaction to buying a last gen console when the next generation ones are out is dumb and invalid

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Originally Posted by bkblitzed
i just feel like ps3 has better single player games and xbox has a better multiplayer lol. No need to bring in the console war, but in the end pc wins all lol
I just wish companies would stop releasing bad console ports on pc :-(

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Originally Posted by w0ng3r

Do your knee jerk reaction to buying a last gen console when the next generation ones are out is dumb and invalid

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I dunno, Sony just stopped manufacturing PS2s, so there is still a market for older consoles. Especially those who like to play their favorite older games when new consoles don't have backwards compatability.
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I dunno, Sony just stopped manufacturing PS2s, so there is still a market for older consoles. Especially those who like to play their favorite older games when new consoles don't have backwards compatability.
What I gathered from his comment was "Sony is banning the trading of used games? I'm going to microsoft instead!" but maybe not.
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Yep, I still have a grip of PS2 games that I doubt will make the PSN (the Xenosaga trilogy). And I used to have my old 60gb model that was backwards compatable... Until like an idiot, had my wife ship it out to me in Afghanistan and have the internals melt in the hot afghan sun... So I bought a PS2 just for my older games.

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Originally Posted by STInavyguy
Yep, I still have a grip of PS2 games that I doubt will make the PSN (the Xenogears trilogy). And I used to have my old 60gb model that was backwards compatable... Until like an idiot, had my wife ship it out to me in Afghanistan and have the internals melt in the hot afghan sun... So I bought a PS2 just for my older games.
MMMM Xenogears! Stock up on lenses, they seem to be the first to go, my 1st gen ps3 YLOD'd on me, and one of my PS2 slims had a lens failure too.
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Damn this would negate my use of Gamefly. Hope they don't go through with this.
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Originally Posted by w0ng3r

MMMM Xenogears! Stock up on lenses, they seem to be the first to go, my 1st gen ps3 YLOD'd on me, and one of my PS2 slims had a lens failure too.
I goofed, I ment XenoSAGA... Xenogears is in fact in PSN.
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