Degausser on 30 December 2010
In short, second hand games still fuel the video game industry. When people trade games in, it's to buy new games, which is good for publishers developers.
Further, it gives the retailer nice profit margins, which they need seeing as the publishers sell their games wholesale to the retailer for a pathetic markup. Fact is the publisher couldn't get away with that if they didn't have other channels, like pre-owned games, to up their margins, don't ever see the publishers mention that though.
I don't buy games used out of principle but I appreciate that the market does plenty of good, whereas piracy doesn't.
