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Anyone consumer who is FOR stopping used game sales, is evil and/or insane.

Lots of games I never would have played if it werent for used games, just because when I got around to them the game (and sometimes the console) was so old it wasn't available new anymore. Do we really want to deny future players the chance to play the classics of today?

On the other hand, it seems to be completely OK for the publishers to sell the same game 4 or 5 times to the same consumer.

I have now bought Super Mario Bros. on NES, SNES (Mario All-Stars), Gameboy, GBA, Wii Virtual Console and 3DS (tho got it as ambassador on 3DS, so technically "free").

There will be even more of this if you stop used game sales. They have partly stopped it already, it's not like you can transfer a downloaded purchase to a friend later. Physical media is very important to consumer rights, once you buy something digitally, you have almost no rights.

On the Wii, the games are locked to the console. The EULA actually says that if you sell your Wii, you have to format it and remove all the downloaded content first! None of these companies give a fuck about their customers, so you can't give them an inch.