I disagree with pachter (shocker). His math and reasoning seems poor. If somebody trades in three games to buy one game, that means the publishers are out two new games, the profit of which is now going to gamestop instead of the publisher. Who's signing pachters checks? Or did he just get a vacation paid for by gamestop?
Or how about this quote
Pachter also revealed that the used game sales sector of the market now accounts for around 100 million units per year in the U.S. alone. That equates to around one-third of all games sold and provides a revenue stream of around $2 billion annually.
That revenue stream is entirely going towards used game stores, not game developers. So why is that a positive thing? It's good for the "gaming industry" if you broaden that definition to include all retail outlets, but is terrible for the industry if you narrow that to the people actually making and publishing games.
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