Wasn't enough good turn-based RPGs this generation for me to really care about the next one much. It seemed pretty good for them at the beginning but they just disappeared after a couple years. And turn-based JRPGs are pretty much why I buy consoles. I can get pretty much everything else on the PC.
Speaking of the PC and second hand sales... Sony's method is just stupid. Especially when you compare it to Steam (or almost any other digital retailer on PC): - Steam allows publishers to completely cut out the expense of producing game disks. Sony's method requires special, more expensive, disks. - Steam works on existing hardware. Sony will require new hardware to handle the DRM on these disks. - Steam allows games to stay in stock, and thus sellable, forever. Sony's stupidity still requires them to create and store disks if they want to sell old games. - Steam allows for major discounts with minimal cost per sale, so Steams massive discounts are massively profitable. Sony has to deal with the expense of disks, so they can't offer such discounts. - Once a game is in the Steam catalog, it stays there until Valve are told to remove it (making it much easier to find a game there than in a second hand bin). By keeping disks, games will fall out of the Sony catalog as their sales drop leaving the games unavailable. - Steam has no legal issues with their current method*. By including a physical product the legality is different. - Steam lets PC users get away from the hassle of switching disks. Sony's method doesn't. I can't see how anyone would benefit from Sony's method. Which means this is probably a junk patent they have no intention of implementing. Then the only stupidity is that they still paid to file the patent. *There is the EU ruling. But no digital retailer is following it, so their lawyers think it isn't an issue. So the EU ruling doesn't count unless you can find a lawyer who says it does.