| Soleron said: [...] As we know from last few years, GAMES and PRICE sell consoles. They are the only factors that truly matter and can lift sales. Wii, Vita, PS3, 3DS all illustrate this in different ways through their sales history. Multimedia functions never helped a console take off. We can run this argument in reverse: non-game factors never sunk a console either. RROD didn't really stop people buying 360s. Neither did ads on the home screen. It still had the games they wanted at a price they were willing to pay. The DRM and used games issues, while bad and anti-consumer and all that, are the pet issues of a very small group. |
As Rol and others pointed out, DRM and used games issues are tightly related to games and price.
I'd just like to add that I didn't know that GameStop's used games business, itself a part of the whole used games market, is thriving on a very small group of users. 
