Wednesday 24 May 2006
High street games shops have been told by Sony that th𒊎ere will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for cus💃tomers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purch🦩asing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

We assume that the thinking behind this move will ultimately be to stop PS3 games being resold several times - which currently snatches potential sales away from Sony - 🧸and to counter the impression in consꦗumers' minds that games are only really worth their pre-owned price and are not worth buying new.

When we contacted Sony, it issued us with the following statement: "We have 𝓀made all of the official announcements at E3 and cannot make any further com⛄ments at this time. We will be announcing more news running up to PlayStation 3's launch."

Above: While Sony revealed details ofits PS3 online store at E3, it made no reference to a licensing system for next-gen software