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What? They're exactly the same. The quote in February said "Sony itself will not block used games but we're leaving it up to publishers." During the conference, he said "we will not restrict used games or trading games in." Unless he said we are not allowing publishers to do so (and he most certainly didn't), then those quotes are the same.

They didn't change their course, either. Back in February, they were not blocking used games but were instead leaving it up to the publisher. Here we are in June and they're still not blocking used games but are instead leaving it up to the publisher. It's the same policy was set back in February.

There wont be an online pass. Those did NOT work how the publisher wanted. They also said they were eliminating those. They're either bringing something way more restrictive like a code that needs to be entered into PSN to register the game and if you don't have the code, you don't just lose access to online, you lose access to the whole game, or they could just as easily require the game to be constantly connected and if you're not registered or connected, you don't play. There's unlimited number of ways for them to block used games.

They would most certainly receive lots of backlash. However, just like all the backlash over the online pass, I'm confident people would just forget about it and move on.
I guarantee you that that won't be the case. They thought that was going to be the case with the new DRM that game companies were using on PC games a while back. What ended up happening was people stopped buying the games that used them. Now, of course, that was because the DRM for a legitimate game was preventing people that had copies of the game from being able to play it because the DRM was built stupidly, but it's the same idea. People that have legitimate copies of the game would be prevented from playing them because of silly DRM issues.

You can't tell me that the first time an EA game forces someone to be online to play the game (even though Sony CLEARLY said during the press conference last night that online was not required to play their games), there won't be a ginormous backlash from that subset of customers, because there most definitely will be. Then, once they figure out that it's the EA game causing the issue and not the PS4 in general (when they put in another game and it lets them play, for instance), that's going to be a subset of customers that won't be buying anymore EA games for the PS4 and money lost because of a stubborn ideal of how games should work.