Yeah, and the Big Three are Big Publishers themselves. Controlling regional prices and how games are passed from one person to another is a prime concern to them. Sony has learned from past mistakes to be more subtle, but all three companies are en route toward the same place, wherever that may be. Assuming that Sony doesn't completely overhaul how PSN handles online play and matchmaking, we'll basically end up paying for downloadable PS4 games... as well as discounts on other online games, which people will no doubt want to take advantage of when since it's a mandatory $50 a year. So licensing out games online will inevitably become more prevalent (as opposed to "owning" them like you do with a hard copy, which is also on shaky ground due to untested publisher terms of purchaseOriginally Posted by Incognitus
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Investors of Microsoft, Sony, etc. will keep the execs and their wacky ideas at bay (since they don't want their holdings to bomb), but companies as a whole still slowly push at and expand the boundaries of what we find acceptable. By next gen, most gamers may not even care that a console doesn't have an optical drive.
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