| JayWood2010 said: I'm going to go ahead and add something. People are comparing the video game company to other industries? How many game companies have you all seen go out of business in the last few years? A lot right? One reason would be because the used market. Also stop saying stuff about used CD's because honestly most people don't buy CD's at all. Movies make majority of their money at theatre's and books are not sold side by side used. Very few people by used clothes because of physical wear. It's like most of you all aren't even thinking at all |
If you would have read ANY of the economic reasoning in this thread, you would have realized by now, that having a used market actually inflates the size of the new market for video games. Get rid of the used market, and the whole market will shrink.
Given that it doesn't actually increase sales, you still cannot blame the company going out of business on the used game market. The used game market has always been there. That being the case, if it actually decreases sales, it was the companies responsibility to make a financial plan that can survive with the given competition in the market.
My guess is with the video game companies going out of business, it has a lot more to do with mismanagement than anything else.
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
