It'd be interesting, while it would help Nintendo as they'd have a key selling point over the competition, it may (further) hinder their push for third party support. Any measures like this will have been put in as an industry wide type intiative among both Sony, Microsoft and third parties and as such will probably see more software investments in those hardware platforms.
However, I don't think either console will see a flat-out removal of used games. It;s just neither needed anymore or the most sensible way to monetize that section of the market. Instead I see things like online passes expanding to other key components of games - some of which may even be offline. I see games pushing further to monetize long-term sale of ingame items / content or subscription based things like COD Elite / Battlefield 3 premium. There's no need to flat out kill the used game industry anymore, as next gen is gonna push to extract more $$$'s from a games life long after the player has bought it, and that can just as easily find profits from those with used game copies.
I think big changes are due in the next gen and a lot of the negative press from the next Sony / Microsoft consoles are going to be aimed at how they try to get more money from gamers long after initial purchase. This will prevent them from raising the price of a game above $60 mind.
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