Why is buying used games such a big deal nowadays?

[Michael-5]

tracyllrkn said:

Michael-5 said:

tracyllrkn said:
Probably because publishers are barely making a profit, or even not making a profit at all.

Last I checked EA, Activision, and Microsoft were doing anything but struggling. Like I said Square Enix wouldn't have existed if Final Fantasy didn't do exceptionatly well, it was just as hard to be big back then as it is now.

How can you say publishers are struggling now, but not before, when we had rental game services, and a smaller market?

Becuase games are becoming more expensive to make. Who knows how much games will cost to make this gen.

Games are also in general selling better then they used to. Before the PS2 era it was unheard of to see a 3rd party game break 10 million units sold, now games like CoD sell 20 million annually.

Also the jump to next gen isn't that big, it's a 9x jump where the jump between 6th and 7th gen was 25x, and before that, even larger. Next gen games are still largely based on the same engines current gen games are based on, so there is a lot more recycling with code.