BenVTrigger on 26 February 2013
| Dodece said: There is a supreme irony that basically nobody appreciates in this situation aside from myself. The used game market is not the enemy of the new game market. It actually reinforces the new game market. Used game sales actually fund the purchases of new games. Removing the model from the market will actually decrease the amount of real money going into the industry. The reason that used game stores are thriving is, because the low income market that games. Cannot afford to bare the burden of just buying new games. When they buy used games. The money they spend is going into the hands of consumers that will buy new games. If they cannot recoup their out of pocket costs by selling games. It stands to reason that they will buy fewer games, or buy them at steep discounts. If the industry wants to optimize first time sales, and address losses due to middlemen profiteering. Then what they need to do is compete with the middlemen. Through aggressive pricing of their own software. Once it has become sufficiently dated. The retail price should be reduced by a certain amount every few months. To keep it competitive with the costs of used games. If they just got it in their heads to price according to demand and value. Some of these companies would be making good money especially on the digital side of the equation. |
100% correct.
I work in the gaming retail industry and its refreshing to see someone who actually understands how the industry works.
