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kain_kusanagi on 17 February 2012
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binary solo said:

they wouldn't rake in any more from me. I buy a certain number of games new and no more. I would just satisfy myself with fewer games. I'd probably be more discerning and only buy games that I can play for many many hours.

It would probably be a good thing for me really, it means I would do less gaming. Would be good for my kids too for the same reason.

Anyway, seems to me great games with mass appeal rake in millions for the publisher even with used games, so it's not like they aren;t making a killing off games already. And mediocre games will probably sell even less than the do now, given people aren't going to take a chance on a mid quality game if they can't flick it on.

I predict killing off used game sales would lead to the popular franchises selling somewhat more, and the unknown and mid-low quality games selling a lot less.

All MS, Sony need do is look at PSN/XBL only game sales to see what's in store for zero used games.

Oh, and it would kill off the video game rental business, which publishers get a cut of, don't let them tell you any different.

Poor misguided fools thinking that every used game sale = a new game sale lost. It's simply not even close to being a reasonable assumption.

And all that is on top of what Kain_K says about ownership. Philosophically killing off second hand trading is simply wrong, it's wrong for cars, books, pianos, furniture, game consoles, cameras, TVs, PCs... and it's wrong for video games. In fact I think there should be a DLC trading system, you can trade DLC with others through PSN/XBL, once the trade is completed the game / content is wiped from your console's HDD and wiped from your PSN/XBL account.

I like that. How many of us have purchased digital copies of games that we will never play again. It would be sweet to be able to at the very least gift it to a friend or trade for another digital game. DLC and download only games should come with the same expectations of ownership as anything else we buy. If not than it's like renting content forever and hoping the publisher doesn't pull that content from the server.