Most Nintendo games don't suffer from used game sales. The reason is that the quality usually denotes that people KEEP their Nintendo-made games. You can't buy a used game if there are none to buy. I believe M:OM will be one of the rare exceptions that suffers at the hand of trade-in amount, and people will be able to buy it used rather than throw down the $50 for a new copy. I am ridiculously obsessed with the Metroid series and I almost never trade in any games, yet I actually did cash in on Other M. Every other person I know personally who played it felt the same way about it as I did. Some people even hated it MORE. That says something.
I figure that what this will do is cause Nintendo to put much less money into the next iteration, which is fine by me because that means less cut scenes (which are very expensive) and probably less commercials, which I'm not concerned about as it does not affect game quality. Nintendo will not bench Samus Aran. She is one of the Nintendo's mascots since the beginning, and a loyal fan base, albeit smaller than Mario's or Link's, is still relevant and important to the big N.
