jlrx on 22 May 2013
| fordy said: EA would reap the most profit/benefit from such a setup, considering the amount of iterations they release each year (one Madden, one FIFA...what else?). They want to control the sway of new buyers deciding to buy, for example, a used copy of Madden 2012 for 10% of the price instead of Madden 2013. Those games stores have SHELVES of these games as used. They can't get rid of them without a significant price reduction on them. This is the foundation for a second videogame market crash, mark my words. If people cannot get much of their money back from selling their yearly iteration games, it sets up the same premise that happened in the early 80s, of spending too much on games with little shift of appeal from one to the other, and alienating the consumer. |
That is it exactly, if someone doesn't have the incentive to trade that used game in and buy the next years version, which is not that different from the previous years version, those yearly titles may see a drop, so go trade in your last year game, or buy a used version and then pay $29.99 on the Xbox to install it ontop of whatever you paid in store.
