| crissindahouse said: isn't the used games stuff on xbox one good for gamestop? it will bring a lot of used games sales from as example ebay to gamestop and game rental services won't compete with gamestop anymore. "you want to buy or sell used games? gamestop is your place" |
If the publishers don't touch used games prices on Xbox One (and if they don't on PS4, they won't on Xbox One) then you are exactly right. MS funneling used sales through "approved retailers" like Gamestop is actually a good thing for Gamestop. Publishers won't mind this either because almost all of the big execs at the biggest publishers always gush about amount of money Gamestop pumps into the industry and all the marketing dollars they spend on games that aren't even theirs.
And even if publishers do stick their hands into the Gamestop used game pot, you're right there as well. If you make $15 on a transaction 10 times a day, you've made $150. If you make $10 on a transaction 30 times a time, you've made $300.
Gamestop employees trash things all the time. It's funny how each store seems to have their own personality and their own bias. I can go to the newest one in my area and they are huge Nintendo fanboys who trash everything else. One just closed down in my local mall and it was full of PC elitists. Another is about a half mile from the mall and are huge Battlefield fanboys and love the 360. I haven't seen any sort of pro-PS4/Xbone and anti-Xbone/PS4 stuff in any of my local shops yet.
Where you might REALLY see some people trying to make some PS4 fans are in the smaller mom and pop type stores. For example, GameXChange. But you never know, MS might accomodate them as well. All you need is a connection to the cloud.
