Future PS3 Owners

May 26, 2006

Sony Set To Abolish Pre-Owned Market

At this moment in time I'm readying a feature about Sony and their PS3; more of a rant than a fact sheet, I was concerned that I'd been too hard on Sony. This news backs up my opinion.

High street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

We assume that the thinking behind this move will ultimately be to stop PS3 games being resold several times - which currently snatches potential sales away from Sony - and to counter the impression in consumers' minds that games are only really worth their pre-owned price and are not worth buying new.

Sony later realsed a statement: "We have made all of the official announcements at E3 and cannot make any further comments at this time. We will be announcing more news running up to PlayStation 3's launch."

So if, like me, you're dead pressed against paying the steep high street prices and instead prowl pre-owned sections and eBay, we're about to be priced out of the market.

Thanks Sony.

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So glad I bought my lovely 360 after all,

cymrococh · May 26, 2006

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