Sony has taken a page out of the Ubisoft DRM-bungling playbook and required gamers playing the downloadable retro game Final Fight: Double Impact to be online in order to play. According to Joystiq, this must be a Sony-only thing because the game plays fine offline on the Xbox 360.

I suppose this isn’t that big of deal, right? It’s not like Sony’s servers ever crash globally.

PS3 Final Fight: Double Impact requires PSN connection [Joystiq]

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