Bethesda: Used games 'absolutely' a concern

[Jaywood2010]

SvennoJ said:

JayWood2010 said:

SvennoJ said:

JayWood2010 said:

 

Anyways,  as I said the problem is with retailers selling stuff used side by side with brand new products within the first week of release.  Can you name another product that does that like the gaming industry?

Other products have no grace period either, you can rent plenty of stuff the same day you can buy it. If I sell my blu-ray of Django unchained tomorrow, do you really think the shop is going to hold it back until some unspoken to sell used date has arrived?

The problem with video games is that the perceived value is mainly based on hype, hence they drop down in value so quickly. If you can't even make your game good enough to hang on for a month then whose fault is that?

You are talking about hypothetical situations.  People don't do that is what Im saying where as gamers do.

And they have to pay for the rights to rents those movies or games.

I wonder what the figures are for pc games nowadays. How many full price sales vs how many steam sale copies. The most I've payed for a non boxed full pc game is under $20, most sub $10. Habit is broken there anyway. I don't buy pc games day 1 anymore. I actually hardly play on pc anymore apart from some exclusives.

It's hard to say.  Steam is great because they offer such great deals and plus gamers really like valve.  I'd say they do fairly well and it shows good signs for digital in the future.  Even Microsoft and Sony has taken note from Valve on digital sales. 

As far as day 1 sales on Steam I like how you can pre-download and then when it gets released it is automatically on your Computer.  Something I think MSFT/Sony needs to do in the future with digital.