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mtu9356 on 24 May 2013
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nightsurge said:
mtu9356 said:
nightsurge said:
theprof00 said:
And ms forces its own proprietary azure system on all gamestops.
Sony, please take advantage of this.
The opportunity is so very ripe.

What's wrong with that? Azure is an amazing cloud computing system. The strongest of it's kind in the entire world.

If anything the places like GameStop/Amazon/Blockbuster will be more supportive of MS now since they will gain more sales. People will HAVE to trade them in/sell them at those retailers instead of selling them personally so they will get a lot more business which will more than make up for the added publisher/MS cut of used sales.

I think this is freaking brilliant if true. It is likely to not upset many people because they can still sell their games at stores, and it will make a stronger relationship between MS and those retailers.

Why would any gamer want this?  They basically are tellin u who u can sell old games to and for what price.  They are removing the open market that exists on eBay and other online retailers and inserting themselves as a middleman.  This is anti consumer how do people ignore that?

It is far better than the alternative of not being able to sell games at all. Like on PC. Yet you dont hear people on PC bitching and complaining about the littlest things. Console gamers have been so spoiled and haven't realized how great they had it. They are just now catching up with what PC gamers have dealt with for quite a while now.

I'm not saying it is good, but it is better than nothing. In fact, on PC, the games prices are lower, they have sales much more often to get games at much lower prices, so in the end the PC spectrum has done away with the need for selling used games because you can still afford the same amount of new ones. PC gamers gave up the "take the game to my friends house to play it" a long time ago unless they wanted to install steam, download the game, etc (Which by the way, you can always copy your Xbox Live gamertag to someone else's console and they would then have access to your games that way).

Perhaps console games will get price reductions and better sales should the used market start to go this way or eventually disappear altogether.

The problem is I have no faith in Sony, Microsoft or any retailer when it comes to pricing older games.  They have done a terrible job this entire gen.  For example a PSN game (Siren Blood Curse) that I've wanted is still at its original 40$ price from 2008.  Go to a retail store and look at some sports game, Fifa 2013 was released last September but still retails for 59.99$ (Bestbuy).