I think MS will do the same - which is *really* bad for many gamers but let's face it: when games are digital only the used-games-market won't exist anymore for these games.

If anyone but a mod said this...

The day this happens is the day I stop buying new hardware/software, no matter who does it. I'll just stick to the first 7 or 8 generations of consoles and handhelds.

Besides the fact that I like to see and hold my purchases, I don't trust these kinds of practices. What ensurance do I have that I can keep playing the games I bought, a decade down the line? I still play most of my old games, played Mega Man 2 just this morning, I'd like to be able to keep doing that. I'd like to still be able to play a good game from 2015 when it's 2035, like I do a 1991 game in 2013. Basically, if this happens, we'd be on a leash.

EDIT: That last sentence has a bit of a dramatic flair to it but anyways .

Ok, it's you right to stay in past, but I won't, as a PC gamer, I'm used to buying digital games. It can be something hard to console gamers accept, because they are used to staying in the past, but nothing can stop the evolution of digital media and cloud gaming.

I think Sony and Microsoft are prepping to rid themselves of Gamestop a gen after this one. They still need them for now. It will take a while to get people used to digital media. One more gen is all the time they need.

Well.. Inkt cartridges for printers has a similiar system of having some kinda chip on the cartridges so only true new cartridges from the manufactur can be used and not refilled one.. if this would happen something similiar would happen: some 16 year old nerdy kid who lives in his mother basement will create some device that resets the gamedisc to new...

I buy my PC games retail too, and I only have a Steam account because this was required in order to play (a retail copy of) Empire and Napoleon: Total War. Ain't happy about that either, but this is the absolute furthest I'm willing to go personally. But yes, it's each their own of course .

second half of 720/ps4 will be mostly digital anyways.  from what i've seen ps360 is quickly inching up to the 50% mark already.

This is just absolutely asking for failure. Even though 99% of my games are new I still have to buy the odd game from long ago pre-owned because its too hard to find new anymore.

That isn't how it works (regardless of how you feel it should). You have really bought a license to play the game ie the right to play it. Saing the game is yours suggest you own the right to the code, which is never the case in software (and this is where the more fundamental pirates start their argument).