Author: John Scalzo

I hate to say I told you so (OK, that’s a lie), But Sony executives have officially confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will not block used games.

Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, spoke to Eurogamer‘s Tom Bramwell after yesterday’s “Meeting 2013” and revealed the good news in an interview that had a few translation difficulties before getting to the good stuff:

I sat down with Yoshida a few hours after the PS4 reveal tonight and one of the first things I asked was whether used games would be blocked.

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“That’s the general expectation by consumers,” said Yoshida. “They purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere, right? So that’s my expectation.”

So if someone buys a PlayStation 4 game, I asked, you’re not going to stop them reselling it?

“Aaaah,” was Yoshida’s initial answer, but seemingly only because he’d forgotten his line. “So what was our official answer to our internal question?” he asked his Japanese PR advisor. The advisor stepped in but didn’t seem to answer clearly, at least to my ears. Yoshida then took control again firmly:

“So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?”

I’d say that’s a very good answer. Thank you for not making me look like a liar, Mr. Yoshida.

Here’s another look at that wall of developers and publishers that have pledged to support the PlayStation 4. There’s some interesting names on this slide, including Rockstar Games (is Grand Theft Auto V coming to the PS4?), LucasArts (I guess Star Wars 1313 is a next-generation game after all) and Bohemia Interactive (the makers of DayZ, who “would love to see it on consoles”).

Hit the break for the complete list of companies (well, all the ones I recognized, anyway). (more…)

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has closed out the PS4’s reveal with the news that the next-generation console will launch in “Holiday 2013.” No price. No idea what the system looks like. But it’s at most ten months away.

Hopefully we’ll learn more at E3 2013.