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The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but just like installing a PS5 disc drive, a PSN outage would have prevented first-time setup of something that simply does not require an internet connection.

I want to address this section by the author. Should any old disc drive work offline? Yes. Do PlayStation’s? No.

In the interest of saving money, Sony doesn’t pre-pay for the Blu-Ray Disc Association License, so they use the internet to know when to pay the license fee on behalf of the user. So from a legal standpoint by an entity which does not want to get sued, their course of action to save money requires this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if it uses an internet connection to verify the disk to try and prevent used sales or pirating

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I read an article testing the same disc drive in multiple PlayStations and they continued to work. My guess is that Sony pays for console X to be able to use a disc drive when one is inserted, and then pays for console Y when one is inserted. They probably can check the ID of the disc drive, but they also probably don’t care that much.