Sony is basically a patent troll these days…
I’m pretty sure the majority of their patents are things they never intend to use, they just want to be able to charge anyone else that wants to do it.
This is your usual daily reminder that each of the tech giants obtain something like 3000 patents a year, by patenting everything under the sun. For the sole purpose that if one of them sues another for the violation of one such patent, the other can dig up a hundred of them to countersue.
90% to 95% of all patents are never commercialized. It is not exclusive to Sony.
Remember when iCloud purchases on kids iPad exceeded like 2k$… well we will see a vulnerability and hackers taking advantage of second hand controllers market with cc info being leaked.
Sony already had that happen once. A dog mangled its owners controller and racked up a whole $8 in charges. Possibly more but that’s all I could find in the article.
On the plus side now your kid won’t have to beg you for VBucks or whatever. /s
Life imitates art
The meme is so old, tapping cards to pay did not even exist.
Sony really made the meme real, what a fucking world we live in
This was a joke once upon a time
And the easier victory of course provides you with a sense of pride and accomplishment.
I thought we are just renting our bought games?
Well we sure ain’t renting them for free
and by tap we mean walk past.
Welp. It was a good run.
Makes it even easier for kids to use their parents credit cards. What a service!
The way Sony are moving I wouldn’t be surprised if Xbox retake console superiority, Sony seems terrified of PC and Xbox has merged with it, along with Sony standing firm on your purchased games not being yours.
Retake? They never had it, they’ve always been the also ran behind Nintendo and Sony in sales. Only 360 came close to second place in that generation.
For most of the generation, 360 was ahead of the PS3. It came out an entire year before the PS3, which helped it become more popular than any other generation of Xbox. PS3 overtook it like a year before the xbone and ps4 were released.
And while technically Wii was in first place, they were never running in the same competition. You needed a Wii for Nintendo exclusives and at the same time, couldn’t play a lot of the other games on it, or if you could, you had to put up with significantly worse performance. Wii+PS or Wii+Xbox was a much more common combination to own than PS+Xbox for a reason.
That was a lot of words to say “you’re right”. Released early to get first mover advantage and failed to fully capitalise on it. Like I said, Xbox never held a crown to retake.
buyrent for an undisclosed amount of time with multiple options for losing possession earlydoesnt the store save the card data? i dont get it.
It doesn’t have to. You can enter it every time if you want.
Nintendo already have NFC readers on their controllers, so they could potentially challenge this.
Sony turning the PS into a P. O. S.
No, not sale.
What players? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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If implemented properly this would actually be an improvement:
- user has to authorize each purchase by tapping the card someone without the card can’t buy on the user’s behalf
- payment data doesn’t have to be stored so no payment data they can lose
“if implemented properly” lol no
