Between the Big three (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo), who is the worst when at the top?

[LudicrousSpeed]

SvennoJ said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

Some in this thread are mistaken in regards to MS and used games on Xbox One. Their original plan was very shitty, but they weren’t erasing used games. They had plans with retailers to offer trade ins for games and sell used titles.

Who knows how all that would work, and again, it would have been very shitty. I imagine trade in values for games would be extremely small. But they weren’t erasing used games.

Semantics. They were erasing the possibility of selling used games on Ebay, garage sales, giving or lending them to friends. The plan was to have select retailers join a buy back program in which MS would get a cut when a store would buy a game back from you. (Or when it was sold again, don't remember exactly)

No idea even if it would be a worldwide program or how long it would have taken to set up a world wide program. Yet from the start all you got was a license tied to your account with 24hr check ins by the console. When selling the game back to an authorized retailer your license would be revoked. It basically turned all physical games into digital licenses.

MS tried to smooth it over a bit by talking about game sharing and the ability to sell on digital games. Yet the positives never emerged, even though that could still be easily done regardless of 'killing' the physical market.

Semantics, lol. Not at all. Used games still would have been entirely possible. Like I said, the plan was trash, but it wasn’t “erasing used games”.