Rumour: PS4 to employ anti-pre-owned tech

[wraggster]

PlayStation 4 allegedly codenamed Orbis; System to use AMD GPU and CPU combo

The next generation PlayStation console is internally codenamed Orbis and will utilise technologies that will curb the damaging effects of pre-owned game sales, according to a new report.
An anonymous Kotaku source says the system will also pack an AMD x64 CPU and AMD Southern Islands GPU – the latter being a new line of graphics cards used for high-end PCs.

The information is not verified. Sony has declined to comment on the matter.
It is said that games will be shipped either on Blu-ray or downloaded; the same distribution model that the PS3 operates with.
Yet Kotaku claims to have heard “from multiple sources” that the PS4 will implement anti-pre-owned technologies. The theory is that games will be registered to a single PSN account, meaning that Sony can detect the same game being played on other systems and, in turn, lock out certain features.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...pre-owned-tech

[Zin0099]

i was wondering why they didn't do this with the ps3 or psvita so i own the game as a psn game then hdd download