Nope, every single company that got into the used sales market ( except Amazon) tend to over time have less and less inventory of new games which is a pain for customers like me that want to buy their games new....
Since Best Buy got into used games sales, the shelf space for new games has been divided by two at my local Best Buy.

Right, it's also not necessarily true to say that people buy new and trade in within a week because they're value conscious. Much more not necessarily true.

Do I agree with it? No.

Do I understand it? Yeah.

I like that idea :D

6B$ is the currently valued 25B$ video game market extrapolated from being 26% of gamestop's annual revenue. Gamestop alone is 2.5B in revenue.

Yes, but in assuming that we are talking about very recently released games, you make two assumptions:

a) the game was purchased "new"
b) the game completely warrants a near immediate return.

According to cognitive dissonance, paying more for a game makes you appreciate it more and critique it less harshly.
Plus, your entire argument is rather stiffly balanced on the market remaining exactly the same as it is now, without compensation for the loss of the used market, like more demos, smaller budgets, more creativity, better income for devs.

Because software IS different. Everything else that you buy second-hand, you buy a diminished copy of. If you buy a 3 year old couch, it may have stains, it has some wear and tear. If you buy a 3 year old car, it probably has 40,000 miles on it, and it will start requiring maintenance. Physical products degrade over time. If you buy a car, it may have 10 years of life in it. If you buy a 3 year old car, it will have 7 years left in it. The product's age and wear and tear diminish through owners, degrading it's resale value. And it has a time when it ceases to have any value.

When you buy a used game, you get the entire game, still 100% of what it was. if you pass it on or resell it, it never changes. 5+ people can buy and resell the game and get the exact same experience as the new game. If people can afford a brand new car, they probably buy one, and people who can't buy used cars. People willing to spend the money keep the car companies afloat, and as the cars age, they move onto people who can afford less. Games however never technically diminish. How long do you think GM or Ford would be in business if everytime someone sold their 3 year old car, it magically got a complete overhaul? Suddenly the value of a "new" car drops significantly, while the production costs continue to rise.

Software is fundamentally different in this respect, and must be treated as such.

And to top it off, rol, the people who buy those niche games and titles are very likely collectors and hardcore gamers who already know what they want, so the only titles that people are going to move away from, are the shit titles. True there will be more people going to the big franchises, but that will likely be people who aren't really looking to get the game they want. You're talking about browsers, casuals in stores who say, "hey this looks good".

I'd bet that the people who bought demon's souls bought it because they wanted it, and very few returned it. OTOH, people who bought kane and lynch because "it has guns and stuff" (a shitty game) probably would move more toward the big franchises.
In the end, I think that games which people know are good, yet niche, will continue to sell just as they are, and games that the devs KNOW suck will be cancelled, etc, and thereby push more purchases into the big franchises, adn decrease the number of turds that come out.

I dont buy used and seldom sell, but when I lose the right to lend or sell a game, the value of the game drops dramatically. For example I wont pay more than $20 for any game on Steam, and more than likely I usually pay

show me where it says bolded. Specifically about the couple weeks of release in a complaint.
And I disagree. A game on the used market will continue to sell used indefinitely. For example, Uncharted and Call of Duty and MvC and other big games, hold their price at 50-60$ for the better part of 6-12 months. Hell even when MW2 was out, MW1 was still 40$ new.

No, no, I see people too. I don't see a person buying a game new and returning it within a week. I simply don't. That's why rentals exist. I cannot see someone really enjoying a game and selling it back immediately. I have never done it, and have never known anybody to do so. Sure it's anecdotal, but I don't think those people exist. I don't think they exist BECAUSE of things like gamefly, because of renting, because of trading to friends. Now, I could see someone hating a game and trading it in, and then an "addict" buying the used version because by now, obviously, he's learned that he has a full week to play and return for full credit.

And well, to your alst paragraph, gaming is still in infancy. Maybe it's a little older, but it is by no means matured in the sense that everyone knows what they are doing. That's why companies are throwing crap games out there, that's why studios are closing down. There's a lot of waste, and a lot of "no turning back" attitude, it's also a burden on devs that new consoles come out every 6 years or so.

And there's a lot of people who still seem to think that HD is the only way to go. I'm glad Iwata said "wii:U games don't all have to be HD". He's right. There's tons of ps2 level graphics games I'd like to see on the new consoles, but don't get made. There's a lot of cost savigns to be made, and perhaps these kinds of market forces are what they need.

This is my exactly my point of view. The used market fuels the first hand one and have the actual effect of reducing the perception of price to the consumer who sells his game after finishing it.

Take a $59,99 game. If Ihave an option of selling it on amazon or e-bay for $39, the game itself would have cost me only 20 bucks, and I will probably used it on new games.  There're gamers who doesn't accept the price tag for new games. When they buy used games, their moneys goes to guys who usually do that and that will use this money to buy new games.

There are probably cases when people wouldn't even buy a console for lack of a used market since he doesn't feel like paying $59,99 for a game. The used market allows for a kind of price differentiation, where people pay more or less what they feel rigth and the market is bigger because of that.

If they succeed in killing the used market, it would shrink considerably in value, because the big guys would have to drop pricesw in order to mantain the same level of revenue. Bye bye $59,99 games.

New IPs would be rare, since most wouldn't risk buying something unknown, since you wouldn't be able to rent, borrow or sell back. Gamers as a group would lose with this asinine decision. Hope they fail.