PS4... One? I can't think of a title.

Here's some old news, but it's actually new to me. I guess it didn't make slashdot, and if it was on kotaku I had long stopped reading it regularly.

Basically it seems the only reason everyone loves the PS4 over the Xbone is because Sony refused to tell anyone they had the exact same plans as Microsoft originally - and thus was able to do their own 180 secretly.

Essentially they were going to tie their PS Eye to the PS4 in the way the Kinect was tied to the Xbone for a similar $500 price tag, and they were going to implement their own insane used game DRM. But thanks to Microsoft being eager to reveal what they had, Sony was able to quietly abandon those practices and look like the good guy.

I must admit I'm a bit shocked by it. Getting an actual PS4 is still a year or two off for me anyway, but I guess I'll be keeping a close eye on any changes they do as well for similar reasons to what Microsoft did with the Xbone. Well, Sony still has to actually deliver games I want to play on the system before I consider buying one anyway so for now it's just a wait and watch kind of deal.

Why the hell am I posting so much lately. :P

You Really Aren't Getting The Full Game

This.

There's a 20 GIGABYTE content patch for the new Halo master chief collection due out next month. This is content, not bug patches. (I have a hard time deciding which would be worse...)

Apparently 45GB on the 50GB Blu-ray disc is filled, so they have to offer the rest as a patch. I don't know how they plan on implementing this exactly but the way they do it will show their intentions. It's a pretty shitty thing to do when all they needed was to add a second blu-ray disc in the box. You know, like they use to do with previous systems.

If they're just offering the patch to anyone for free, given it would need the physical game to work anyway, then they're being cheap. Painfully cheap. It seems all xbone and ps4 games need to be installed to be played anyway, so that second blu-ray would be all content - no reuse of code like you'd get with previous generations with multi-disc formats.

Oh I could certainly make a comment about required installation and how the consoles ship with just 500gb harddrives and the like, when a single game can run up to 70GBs for an install... but maybe another day. :P

If they're offering it for free, but still requires a one-time DLC coupon to start it - then they're doing it as extra DRM against pirates AND as an attack on the LEGAL second hand market.

If they're offering it for sale, but with a DLC coupon for first-time buyers, they're doing the above but trying to make a profit at the same time.

This isn't DLC. Their rationalization for doing this is because they simply ran out of room on the disc. There's nothing to feel "entitled" about having - it's part of what the base game was suppose to be. We'll see what their real intentions are for this when we start seeing games come out with "content patches" that would have easily fit on the blu-ray with the rest of the game.