Sony: Preowned PS3 Rumors "False"

Sony's UK division officially laid the smack down today on rumors that the PlayStation 3 would use an end-user license agreement strategy to make sales of used software illegal in the country:

GamesRadar yesterday reported that Sony was warning high street retailers that the sale of pre-owned games would be illegal due to the licensing terms of PS3 software, which would mean that discs technically remained the property of Sony.

However, a Sony Computer Entertainment UK spokesperson today outright denied that any such message had been conveyed to retailers - telling GamesIndustry.biz that following conversations with the firm's European parent company, neither division has "any knowledge" of such a strategy.

Doesn't change the fact that this rumor does jive with the way things seem to be going in the industry, though. I wonder what will really happen.