| KylieDog said: GTA sales are big enough they don't need resort to this. Used sales hurts small-mid range selling games. |
They don't have to, but it gets them more money. What do you guys really think they can do with two weeks of time. Find and fix bugs while waiting for the release date.
Also, used games hurt all games, not just small and mid range selling games. While GTA5 and Call of Duty make far more money because they get far more new game sales, they also have the chance to lose more money to used games sasles because there are more copies out there to be sold as used games.
Look at it in this perspective. You have 20 million Call of Duty games and 200,000 Yakuza 4 games, If one percent of the Call of Duty games purchased are sold used or traded into Gamestop, etc, it amounts to 200,000. That's only one percent of total sales and it's equal to the total amount of sales of Yakuza 4, so yeah, Call of Duty is losing far more through used games than a game like Yakuza 4 ever will.
So while Rockstar doesn't need to do this with GTA5, by doing so will make them more money because during that time, they won't lose as many games to to used sales. If there's no games at Gamestop being sold as used, how can Gamestop ask if the person purchasing it would like to save $5 buy purchasing used? And while not everyone says they'll take the used copy, a lot of people do, because buying new doesn't mean as much to them as it does to some of us.
