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Forums - Sales Discussion - I believe the USED market may hurt the 360 and PS2 come the holidays

gera4390 said:
angrypoolman said:
gera4390 said:

well if u where a cool villain like kakihara of ichi the killer it would be even cooler than be a regular hero, but u are a poor villain in this thread, ur conviction is not worth it is kinda dumb , u are having lots of contradictions and u kinda look dumb sometimes :D. that's from my perspective if I made a story about this thread u'll be a poor villain :P

dude, my conviction looks dumb because all of these people turned it into like.. a HUGE deal.

It really is not that big of a deal, but these people are like... SO AGAINST IT. yay!

I have not had one contradiction in this thread though, so I don't know what you're talking about.


if this was like a movie I'd put the faces of the unsatisfied consumers that where convinced to buy a Wii, who quit playing after the first month of playing because they wanted at first instance to buy an HD console but were persuaded by a greedy little man who had an evil agenda (more dumb than evil). just wanna tell u that u failed it was so weak of your part to post about ur evil agenda in this thread in this site.

lol, you really haven't been paying attention have you?



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btw I'm just messing with u, I'm dramatizing this shit, not big deal :P, I don't judge u though.
I'm just having fun with this thread and turning it more against u.



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gera4390 said:
btw I'm just messing with u, I'm dramatizing this shit, not big deal :P, I don't judge u though.
I'm just having fun with this thread and turning it more against u.

You should have kept going! I would have kept responding. lol!



angrypoolman said:
gera4390 said:
btw I'm just messing with u, I'm dramatizing this shit, not big deal :P, I don't judge u though.
I'm just having fun with this thread and turning it more against u.

You should have kept going! I would have kept responding. lol!


cool, then besides being a greedy man with dumb convictions and very very contradictory character, I would have make u a sadistic child molester who also likes to wear thong in public , so people could forget about ur dumb intentions and just focus in the child molester part that could be more convincing to hate u for that instead of just feel petty and confusion. :P



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I don't buy consoles used because they are less reliable than the new revisions and often don't come with warranties (the used $139 Arcades probably still have the 3 year warranty though right?).

However I do buy games from the resale market. I only have one used 360 game (I found Fable II used on ebay for less than half what it was selling in retail at the time. The original owner didn't take care of the game disc and manual very well though but I figured, "hey it works fine without a hitch anyway. You get what you pay for."). But I've also bought a couple of sealed new 360 games off ebay (one was out of print, another was more than double the price in retail over here). So basically, about one-fourth of the games I bought come from the resale market.

Honestly I don't care if dealing with the resale market "hurts the devs". Not only is it legal to buy second-hand but there is nothing morally wrong about it either. No one whines, "you're killing the car manufacturing industry by buying used! Look at Ford, GM, Chrysler, etc. Now we gotta bail em out!" It's generally accepted that buying second-hand cars is a pretty normal and socially acceptable thing to do. Why should it be any different for second-hand video games? If someone has their fill of a game I want and they don't want it anymore (or they let it sit in their backlog still shrinkwrapped and decide that they should get just rid of it. lol) , I'll gladly take it off their hands if it's cheap enough to make it a worthwhile purchase. So as long as it works, comes in the original case with the manual included.

And plus buying second-hand promotes environmental sustainability. Do we really need all that plastic junk floating around in our world? I never sell my games (even the ones I didn't like. I'm such a pack rat, I swear) but the world needs resellers to balance out all the environmental waste people like me cause by storing away my neglected games instead of giving them to someone that would put them to better use.



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angrypoolman said:

It's not screwing them, just giving Nintendo a bit of an edge. Sometimes I will feel sorry for a game like Valkyria Chronicles (which I love), and I will encourage a new purchase of that game, but basically, Nintendo needs to be in charge here. They are the only true video game company, and if you ask me, it's Microsoft and Sony who are screwing the industry, not Nintendo. Nintendo are the only ones who are putting in an effort to make it better.

Wow.

 

I just love that kind of sales persons. Whenever I spot a ninty-fanboy sales person I will make sure he gets annoyed. It is priceless to see their sad little faces turning red and hear they stutter more than Floyd Mayweather Jr when confronted. They are so pathetic.



Esa-Petteri said:
angrypoolman said:

It's not screwing them, just giving Nintendo a bit of an edge. Sometimes I will feel sorry for a game like Valkyria Chronicles (which I love), and I will encourage a new purchase of that game, but basically, Nintendo needs to be in charge here. They are the only true video game company, and if you ask me, it's Microsoft and Sony who are screwing the industry, not Nintendo. Nintendo are the only ones who are putting in an effort to make it better.

Wow.

 

I just love that kind of sales persons. Whenever I spot a ninty-fanboy sales person I will make sure he gets annoyed. It is priceless to see their sad little faces turning red and hear they stutter more than Floyd Mayweather Jr when confronted. They are so pathetic.

Wouldn't happen to me.



this is speculation... I don't actually think the Xbox 360 OR PS2 will have much of this, used console's is a niche business and many casuals don't want to buy used console's if the new console is cheap in the first place.



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