Thursday, 3 January 2013

Sony Patents NFC-based Second Hand Game Sale Suppression Method

Sony Patents NFC-based Second Hand Game Sale Suppression Method

It?s no secret that 2012 has not been a banner year for Sony and one of the ways it wants to turn that around seems to be by taking on the used games market. �A patent filed by SCE Japan describes a novel solution of associating a game copy with a single user account, not through the use of passcode authentication, but by putting an NFC chip on every �game disc.

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?When the game is to be played, the reproduction device conveys the disc ID and a player ID to the use permission tag,? according to�Sony Japan?s patent document. ?The use permission tag stores the terms of use of the game and determines whether a combination of the disc ID and the player ID conveyed from the reproduction device fulfills the terms of use or not.?

Via NeoGAF, Eurogamer
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