Nintendo will never be "third party friendly"

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DJEVOLVE said:

padib said:

Great as defined by critics and sales.

SFIV is a good example of a game that was not bleeding edge, and that saw healthy sales.

Most 3rd party games are not new anyways. Most are sequels to new IPs within a generation or from the previous.

COD

Assassin's Creed

Battlefield

Witcher

Far Cry

etc.

Gamestop made 3.5 BILLION LAST HOLIDAYS SEASON.  How much of that was used sales? 40% of that if I'm not mistaken, all not spent on new games, maybe older games that people haven't bought yet, however why buy new when you can save $5. So 1.4 BIllion dollars taken out of the market.  Nope that isn't cutting into sales at all. LOL

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/01/14/gamestop-made-3-15-billion-in-sales-during-2013s-holiday-period

Here is the thing thing though, in order for the used game market to be so inventory heavy, there has to be a lot of people trading games back in. Whose fault is that? Yeah gamestop has cornered the market and made a killing through some questionable practices, but there has to be a whole that let the fox into the hen house. So where was it?