A large number of games don’t even get physical releases anymore. Buying a console for entirely offline usage diminishes the value proposition, basically nobody

A large number of games don’t even get physical releases anymore. Buying a console for entirely offline usage diminishes the value proposition, basically nobody will choose to do this because you’re not really buying what is being sold anymore. The other problem with incentives around bricking devices sold for a loss is that when the seller is big enough to absorb a bit of negative PR they also have no incentive to address false positives or small infractions, any time spent dealing with these users is viewed as compounding the loss. It also generates a bunch of electronic waste as a consequence.