bardicverse on 30 May 2008
| ferret1603 said: If it takes off I'll probably stop gaming. I buy my games second hand or heavily discounted. The WiiWare games are too expensive to appeal to me. If everything is distributed digitally there will be no second hand games and retailers wouldn't have left-over stock that needs heavily discounting to get rid of. Everything would be sold at full price or a small discount and there's no way I'd pay £40 for a game. |
True, but by reducing manufacturing, you could probably shave a good 10 or so pounds off that. In theory, you wouldn't actually need a publisher for anything more than being the contact point to the retailer and advertising. A high end developer like Rockstar could actually drop Take Two and make the connection to the retailer themselves, and probably make the smae profit selling the game for 25 pounds.
Agreed though, it is a market I didn't consider. It pretty much WOULD end resale value of a game. A question for you - how much on average do you pay for your used games?
