I hope this works, people should stop beeing cheap and start buying new games. That's if they want them...

Seriously, why do you buy used game, why not just rent it? Used game doesn't support the developer, so there is no reason whatsoever between that and pirating...

Renting doesn't support the dev either. There's no deal yet in place between renters and devs about how the rental copies should be paid for and all that (not like how dvd's are being done with special rental copies which cost a whole lot more to the one who wants to rent them out)

About the car thing: Yeah, but the same person could otherwise buy a new car and thus bring in more money for the car industry. The used car market is currently booming while the market for new cars is in deep trouble because of the financial crisis and stagnant growth. This is way more severe than in the videogaming business. So again: Should you be "forced" to buy cars new?

A lot of active gamers also buy used games, I'm one of them. That doesn't mean I don't bring in money for the industry, I buy most games new but some of them just aren't worth it. Your post sounds like there are two groups of people, one buying only factory sealed games and the other group buying used games only. But a lot of people buy both.

Another example: Imagine you buy a used game because you think it isn't worth the full price and then you become a fan of the franchise. Isn't that an extra sale in the future?

What about borrowing? Did you never lend a game to a friend or vice versa? Will that be punished, too? Or what about the people who occasionally grab a game from the bargain bin? Customers are not slaves...

The real problem is that development costs are skyrocketing while software sales are stagnant. Thus the industry is raising prices more and more and then they wonder why a lot of people buy games used or from bargain bins. And now they are trying to milk us even more by stopping us from buying used games.

The growth of the second hand gaming market is not the problem but merely a symptom of the actual disease.

Well that's news to me, thanks for clarifying. There are no rentals in my country, so I thought the system was similar to renting dvds.

Wow then I guess I'll have to actually buy this new. I got most of my PSP games used with the exception of Persona.

Again we are not slaves of any developers. Why do we have to support developers? They have to support us by giving us the games we want. If a game isn't worth the full price tag to someone I absolutely encourage him to either buy the game used, rent it or not buy it at all.

A free market revolves around the idea that consumers decide what to buy and the producers of the goods have to make sure customers buy them. If the manufacturers just produce their goods and people have to buy it because they have no choice you call that planned economy. And with a lot of industry people blaming customers that for games bombing (and blaming them for used game sales, too) I wonder if they really want this to stay a free market. 

Honestly, if anywhere in the world a business collapsed because it produced goods people don't want or because it has a terrible business model would you care? (Again look at the car industry: When they started to ask the governments for money people went like "What? It's your own fault you didn't see that coming. Car sales have been stagnating for years and governments encouraged you to innovate for decades!" but when it comes to videogames it suddenly is our "duty" to support developers? Everyone has to take care of their money by themselves and everyone wants to save as much money as possible. It's natural. It's the way a free market works if we want it or not.)

Reality says hello.

Do used cars sales give any cash to producer ? Does publisher of book get any money from it when you sell your collection on ebay ?

What makes games any better than those goods and entitle them to charge for second hand sales?

Used games do help a developer if they are smart enough to offer Downloadable Content that is meaningful. It might be only a few dollars but that few dollars they would never see if it had no DLC and that person bought it used.

Because if you wont support them, they will stop making games, it's that simple. If the game isn't worth full price, DON'T BUY IT, noone is forcing you. I really don't need a lecture about market theory, thank you, I've got masters in it.

The comparasin between cars and video games isn't very good, it's like saying that the property market is stagnating because people don't want to live in houses. First of all there is a huge difference between price points. Second, you need one car, but "many" video games. Third, you can't do without a car today, while you can do without videogames. Fourth, many video game developers are "freelancers" while all car manufacturers are gigantic corporations. Fifth, video game developers may put out one title in two to five years periods, that's their only prodcut, if you won't buy it, they might close (look at Activision closing up studios recently, just because their music games didn't sell last year), on the other hand, car industry is a large factor in state economy, so you won't see them closing as easily, because there are jobs, contracts and large tax income for the country.

Nice Idea by Sony.