LudicrousSpeed said:
Great point about the online pass. IIRC Sony started that nonsense on PSP. That directly affected the price GameStop could sell used games for, as it made no sense for them to charge their usual $5 off MSRP on used titles when you’d then have to spend $10-20 for an online pass. Plus he’s mistaken about Microsoft’s original intent. They weren’t killing second hand sales. They had it set up to where you could trade in games at select retailers. No way GameStop wasn’t one of those. And with only select retailers being able to take Xbox One games for trade, it would have allowed them much more leeway on controlling trade in prices and amount of credit given. In the end Microsoft’s original vision was garbage for gamers but would have likely been good for a place like GameStop. |
I agree with you that the original vision was garbage. Anyway I'm off on a tangent, we should be discussing how big PSN is not this. Quite unbelievable figures they're pulling in.