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

[SvennoJ]

LudicrousSpeed said:

SvennoJ said:

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”.

Turning physical discs into nothing more than a digital license is erasing used games. That they were planning to allow select retailers to buy back that license to sell it on to the next customer doesn't change the fact that the disc is essentially useless on its own. The plans would have changed physical discs into nothing more than a download code. Which is happening anyway with more and more games :( (However you can still trade those games since the disc remains the 'owner' of the license)

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 23 April 2022