Digital distribution is coming to consoles

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DarthVolod said:

Ail said:

DarthVolod said:

sethnintendo said:

DarthVolod said:

 

Even if you are too lazy or afraid to sell on ebay or amazon you will still get 20-35 dollars at Gamestop, Bestbuy, or other retailers for your used game.

lol what?  More like 2-20 if you sell it to Gamestop.  You get maybe 20-30 trade in value for brand new releases that you are trying to trade in.  Also, did Best Buy start selling used games?  I heard something about that I believe but I haven't stepped foot into a Best Buy store in awhile.  I actually did just purchase a HP refurbished desktop from them just a little bit ago online though. 

With my example of Mass Effect or basically any other recent popular game e you will get at least 15 -30 dollars or so and maybe more with the discount card and trade bonuses.

Yes, Best Buy is selling used games. I think they actually give pretty decent credit for most games too.

Yep they started doing that about one year ago and their new games shelves went to hell so they lost the 400$ of new games business they were getting from me per year and the 10k$ I was spending per year on their mastercard credit card...

If anything, the new game section at my local Best Buy is better than ever. Used games have their own section apart from the new games, and dedicated staff members for their video games section ensure that things stay neat and organized.

Out of curiosity, why do you seem to despise the very notion of preowned game sales (based on what I can tell from your last few posts)? Personally, I spend probably 1-2k per year on games, and it usually ends up split 70% new and 30% or so used. I usually buy games day one, but there are some games that I either wait for a price drop on, or I just buy preowned (assuming I can find a complete copy of the game with no scratches that I am happy with).

If it was not for preowned, my video game collection would be just a fraction of what it is now if you consider this gen and all of my classic games which can only be found preowned now unless you pay hundreds of dollars for the last few remaining new copies. The preowned games industry has been very nice to me, and I guess I just don't understand how anyone (even game publishers) could find anything wrong with it.

My Best Buy new game selection has taken a huge hit since they started selling used games and on top of that they changed the gamer club to be a two tier club where you have to pay for the second tier and where most of the benefit are towards used games purchase.

Otherwise I despise used games because :

- I rather my money goes to the publisher and the developer.

- I think something is wrong when retailers make more money than the people actually making the games ( compare Gamestop revenues with most gaming companies, except Activision).

- I develop software for a living.

- The amount of my games purchase isn't really constrained by their price. ( and to be honest my credit card rewards pay for more than 50% of my gaming, it used to be Rewards Zone, now it's Amazon Rewards)

- In my experience the retailers that sell used games are the worse at providing deals on new games ( compare Gamestop, Best Buy and Amazon, sure Amazon does used too but not on the same scale and  it doesn't affect their new games stock and they have the best deals..)

- The argument that the used games industry finances new games purchases isn't a 1 for 1$ as most chains that sell used games actually have programs that encourage people trading their games to buy used games with the money instead of new ones...

- I really hate Gamestop ( maybe because I am 40, it's not my age group...)