If PS4 and 720 do not support used games then the WiiU has already won

[Mr Khan]

haxxiy said:

Mr Khan said:

haxxiy said:
Nope. Gamers would whine a bit and life would go on as usual =/

Disagree. The market for used games is huge, especially as publishers drive up prices and rely on a "cat in the bag" philosophy to sell these games full-price. High risk for consumers in a lot of cases, which is mediated by the fact that they have the possibility of selling it back and at least getting some of their money back.

The core gamers will whine but continue to buy whichever platform they prefer, but the mainstream market for Sony and Microsoft consoles will be eviscerated.

Perhaps. It was more of a snarky swipe at the usual passiveness of the human species :P

But I think the core market for both consoles is bigger than you are supposing right there. Look at the ammount of people alone who buy the same game for full price every November. Or consider the possible workarounds to make the market more appealing, like more demos and services like PSN+. That being said, I doubt even in the unlikely case this whole used game block is for real, Sony and MS will still have all the major IPs locked to them, for EA, Activison, Ubisoft, Capcom and SE aren't going to change camp. 

A lot of the CoD audience is casuals in the pre-Wii/DS sense of the word. Time was the people who just played Madden, Halo, and GTA and not much else were the casual gamers, and the people who played more obscure stuff like Shadow of the Colossus or Ikaruga were the core. The Madden-CoD casual is very much ingrained in the used games market. If you came to America and went to any GameStop, a lot of the used games you find are Madden and CoD, and how many people would have bought the game annually at full price, knowing that they were stuck with it?

Or, if there were a version of it that they could resell, they would gravitate towards it, possibly.