Ubisoft reveals profit margins for physical versus digital sales on console

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Teeqoz said:

RolStoppable said:

That's exactly what industry figures want you to believe. They want you to pity the publishers they are working for. Similar things happened with used games that were supposedly bad for the video game industry while every other industry is fine with its second hand market.

The second hand market for other media is dissappearing even faster than for games. For music and movies, you don't even own the media at all. You subscribe to a service that provides them.

So I'd say it's a bit misleading, every other industry was fine with its second hand market, but that second hand market doesn't exist any more for other entertainment mediums.

I work for a large reseller company (software licenses, hardware, solutions and IT services) and there's a decently sized market for second hand software licenses. It's much cheaper and there's nothing Microsoft can do about it (and they've definitely tried to stop it). Of course the companies buying those second hand licenses don't get any support from Microsoft, so they do take a rather big risk. 

So even with an all-digital future, a second hand market can still exist.