Warhawk Now Available, Not Shareable
By Chris on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 9:50 AM PST In Games, Sony, Sony
While you were sleeping, the online-only Warhawk for PlayStation 3 was released on the PlayStation Store for $39.99, as promised. But unlike every other title on PlayStation Network, Warhawk has glaringly omitted one feature that was, until now, thought to be standard – game sharing. You can link up with up to five other PlayStation 3s and share your downloadable games amongst yourselves, but this feature isn’t available in Warhawk. To take it a step further, the game can only be played on the PSN ID that bought it, and only on a single console in any 24-hour period.
While I didn’t personally expect to see Warhawk sporting this feature (it is coming to retail, too, after all), it’s disappointing to see it missing after SCEA president Jack Tretton told Wired that they wanted games to be in the hands of as many gamers as possible, and that it wasn’t about profits.
“You can send that content to four other friends for that initial investment,” said Tretton. “We want to get the game in as many hands as possible.”
“It’s not about generating profits at each and every interaction with the consumer,” he said. “I think that really offsets the argument that says, ‘Wow, that’s a really pricey system.’”
I guess they can’t use that argument anymore.
via Game | Life
Wow, I’m really surprised by this. I recall that quote as well and I wonder what Sony’s response to this new discovery will be.
Someone asked me about this last week and I told him that it wouldn’t include game sharing. But if I’m not mistaken, there aren’t any games on the PlayStation Store that are also available at retail, and allowing people to share the game with their friends would surely tick off retailers.
Warhawk is a retail game primarily so why is anyone expecting it to be shareable? Oh yeah. Because it’s another cheap shot at Sony.
Has it really got to the point that some people are attacking them for not giving full retail games away for free?
Although having said that it appears that they are now giving away a game that was thought to be a retail game.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/08/28/free-gran-turismo-5-prologue-for-sony-playstation-3/
Typical. Sony does wrong and uproar ensues. Sony does goo by releasing a fantastic EXCLUSIVE game and uproaor ensues. This is basically down to copyright as it is a full retail game not a short downloadable network game. Besides, what person in their right mind would want to pay the full price for the game only for 5 of their mates to play it for free? To be honest this anti-Sony thing is now looking quite pathetic. Stop whinging about Sony and go back and play with whatever consoles you have instead of writing dumbass articles like this one. Hell lets take a dozen chepshots at Microsoft for relasing dodgy hardware instead?