14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at Sony working on the PlayStation 4 home console is ready to eliminate its own Digital Right Management scheme following the backlash that Microsoft has endured after saying that the Xbox One will have a fee for used titles.
Geoff Keighley says that sources inside Sony have told him that the company wants to make the PS4 as open as possible in order to give it a competitive advantage.
A NeoGAF user who had offered solid information on the PlayStation 4 before it was unveiled also says that the DRM scheme is being re-evaluated.
He states, “the past week’s PR nightmare for MS has not been lost on Sony and they, in fact, do have a used game ‘solution’ working and have been going back and forth for months on whether to use it. This past week is pushing them strongly into ‘Yeah, let’s not use that’.”
An official announcement about the way the PlayStation 4 will handle used games should be made in the coming months.