14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, has stated that Jack Tretton, the leader of the United States division of Sony, is personally opposing to using technology to block players from running used games.
The analyst says that the Chief Executive Officer has personally told him his opinion and that they offer great value for the consumer, making it hard to ban their use.
Jack Tretton mentioned that his position was a personal one and did not reflect the position that Sony Computer Entertainment of America had on the issue or how other divisions of the company approached it.
A number of rumors have suggested that the next home console from Sony might use a new technology that will allow it to stop any used games from running on it.
Presumably publishers will offer players a way of spending a sum of money in order to authorize titles they bought on the used market.
Industry veterans have suggested that such a technology would be ineffective.
A number of representatives for both publishers and developers have suggested that the used games market is detrimental to the industry, because those who actually create the games do not see any money from their re-sale.
Those who support the used games market argue that the money that players get from the games they no longer want to play is mostly used to buy new products and boost sales.
Neither Sony nor Microsoft has officially announced any plans for their next generation of consoles, but most analysts expect them to talk about them on the record before the end of 2012.
At the moment publishers tend to lock out used game players out of multiplayer or DLC as long as they do not pay and extra charge.