Do you agree with companies trying to rid used game sales?

[theprof00]

Kasz216 said:

theprof00 said:

RolStoppable said:

Seece said:
Yeah I do, hope they succeed

I don't agree with their reasoning, but I too hope they succeed, because I want to see them go down.

The majority of the money that is gained by selling a game back to a store or on ebay etc. goes right back into video games. If the used games market gets shut down, it won't lead to higher sales of new games, but to lower sales. We are talking about at least tens of millions of games sold less per year. It will become harder to establish new IPs, because gamers will try to get the most bang for their buck and that means they will invest in the safe bets, the known IPs.

That we don't even track

Pretty sure he meant tens of millions of new games sold. 

Which... he's probably right.

At least until something like steam shows up on consoles... though even then while sales will go up revenue will go down.

The advantage of steam is it's ability to run sales for everyone everywhere and in general great price elasticity.

It's not true at all that ridding the secondary market would result in less games being sold because in a market of adversity, opportunity arises.

The reality is that game prices may have more swing, more "greatest hits" titles available, the return of extended demos, cloud computing, piracy, etc.

In fact, I'm going to start working on my proposal, because should the secondary market disappear, the market would be ripe for it.