| HappySqurriel said: Although I think buying newish used games from a store like Gamestop is not a good idea (too expensive for a used game) I like that I can find older games at a decent price in pretty good condition ... I can't really fault them for buying used games at such a low price because of the risk they probably take. If you have a game that sells a high percentage of its copies early on, and then you buy a ton of these back, you may only be able to sell a small portion of these games regardless of how low the price becomes; this (probably) isn't that common, but if you sell a game at twice the price you bought it for you have to sell 50% of your inventory before you break even on buying back that game. |
Are you sure of that? I would say that its just as likely the opposite, used games is part of the reason why some games don't have good legs. Because some of those big games have a good initial hardcore business, the people who buy them are more likely to beat them quick and are more likely to sell those games back than more casual gamers.
With all the hardcore gamers selling back so many games, all the casual gamers (the ones who don't really care for the fresh unopened game) will just buy those instead of the new and hence no legs.
