That time Sony’s PS4 was praised for doing the bare minimum
For the eighth console generation, Microsoft was setting itself up for a fall. The company previously announced that the Xbox One would tie games to a console using DRM. Sony saw this, and decided to tackle its competitor at its E3 conference. It told the crowd that its games would be self-contained units, and that you could sell them or share them however you wanted. The crowd blew up in excitement, but just a few years later, we’re still talking about DRM and always-online aspects of games. In that way, it’s good to look back and see how the most basic aspects of ownership cannot be taken for granted in this industry.
