PS4: 10 Crucial Features Sony Must Implement In 2016
5. A Legitimate Family Sharing Feature
Game-sharing has long been a surreptitious practice on home consoles - an illegal process that somehow doesn't feel illegal because it's just so damn cool to access your buddy's entire game collection on your own console, and because Sony's DRM policy kind of sucks. But something that PC gaming platform Steam proved to us back in 2014 is that there's nothing inherently illegal about sharing your games library with a friend. Steam Family Sharing is a little-known feature that lets you share your entire games library with up to five friends; the caveat is that they're not allowed to play your games at the same time as you, and have five minutes to log out when you start playing a game from your library. Sure, there are limitations to this system, but it seems like a reasonable way of recapturing that dying practice of lending games to your friends and letting them try out games that they otherwise wouldn't play. As with reverse compatibility, the first console to implement this will land a massive blow in the console war. Will Sony be prepared to take this brave, consumer-oriented step, or will Microsoft beat them to it again and claim another victory?
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