abronn627 said:
Nope, he's right when he's saying that their alleged allies are competing against them. You're glorifying Sony for something that would have never happened in any case. The backlash Microsoft suffered started after the unveiling of the console, not at E3 and if Sony had made the same decision, the market would look different. Do I have to remind you that Sony was part of a small group of publishers which imposed a fee for online play on used games ? If GameSpot is still afloat today, it's because they took the right decisions at the right time to postpone their downfall. |
Great point about the online pass. IIRC Sony started that nonsense on PSP. That directly affected the price GameStop could sell used games for, as it made no sense for them to charge their usual $5 off MSRP on used titles when you’d then have to spend $10-20 for an online pass.
Plus he’s mistaken about Microsoft’s original intent. They weren’t killing second hand sales. They had it set up to where you could trade in games at select retailers. No way GameStop wasn’t one of those. And with only select retailers being able to take Xbox One games for trade, it would have allowed them much more leeway on controlling trade in prices and amount of credit given. In the end Microsoft’s original vision was garbage for gamers but would have likely been good for a place like GameStop.
