The way I see it, a used game market provides a way for consumers to free up some money that could potentially be used to buy new games. It would be nice to see some data on what percentage of trade in money goes towards used or new games. Also, a thriving game retailer equates to massive advertisement for games and hardware. Game stores have an incentive to advertise new games, not just for their profit margin off the new title, but also that the store the consumer is most likely to trade in their used game will be the one they bought it from. I think this war against used games is overplayed and rather not thought through. Pirating is far worse, renting is worse too. A big name game being rented out by a store could receive dozens, hundreds of uses. At least with used game more money flows back into the system.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
