@legend,
Because the studios mismanage and decide overpolish games which are utter turds that dont sell consumers should suffer? Its the industry that needs to change, not towards punishing the consumer but towards its own costs and management. Even with that argument, the used games won't likely bring in as much money as the few shops that will trade them will monopolize the market and will be able to control the trade in prices, meaning that gamers will likely miss out on more money that they could get back after trading the game in, if it turned out that polished turf. That will likely make buying games which are not already set in concrete as solid franchises a risky enterprise to purchase. If anything I think the smaller studios will suffer even more, granted the bigger boys like Activision and ea already have established franchises, and that's all they would have to make to turn profit, eliminating the need for additional studios that would create new IPs, if anything this move will stifle creativity and make Xbox one games as risky venture, making it a more safe bet to develop for another platform and just making half assed ports to Xbox, which dont require as much time or money ae building equal versions from ground up.
Bottom line is, the studios this generation have fucked up themselves mostly, and you're saying that the measures introduced next gen will minimize the closing of smaller studios? I think not, if anything it will make the Xbox third party support weaker or cause even more closures than this gen.
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
