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Forums - Gaming - 18.6% profits down if no used games

Damnyouall on 29 May 2013

Because people who usually resell old games to fund new game purchases will have less disposable income available.
If console makers / publishers take a cut out of used game sales, then that is the exact amount that will not go into buying new games.
Logic, isn't it awesome?

PS.
Percentage totally made up, like that other publication that used it.



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badgenome on 29 May 2013

Nuh-uh. The numbers those other guys pulled out of their asses are totally better than the numbers you pulled out of your ass.



Damnyouall on 29 May 2013

No way.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

SvennoJ on 29 May 2013

I'll still have the same money to spend on games, without trade ins I'll be buying 30% less full games.
I trade about 60% of my games in for an average of half price back that go into new games.
It's probably more then 30%, I'll likely wait for deals on games I'm not sure about instead of taking a chance and play more ps plus games.



g911turbo on 29 May 2013
RolStoppable said:
I am still baffled that companies think that changing the dynamics of the used games market in such a way is a good idea. The best explanation I can come up with is that they assume that gamers are like drug addicts, so people will pay whatever they get asked for.


LOL.  Actually a good point.  Games are a complete non-necessity to the extreme.  Its one of the things that would get cut out of a budget FIRST in my opinion.  I really think the whole DRM thing complicates the issue.  It would be one thing if they made the system check in online, by necessity, to ensure you weren't playing a pirated copy of the game.  But alas, it's much more than just that.



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Augen on 29 May 2013

I know someone who owns a Mom & Pop game store and they said without used games or ancilliary products they would go out of business within a year. So why on Earth would they support a system/policy that essentially would effectively end their business? If their is a choice between systems that do this and don't you better believe they will heavily market the ones that don't and push it like they never have a product before.

Interesting and chaotic times for the industry to say the least.



TripleMMM on 29 May 2013
RolStoppable said:
The best explanation I can come up with is that they assume that gamers are like drug addicts, so people will pay whatever they get asked for.

Quoted for the truth! ;)



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noname2200 on 29 May 2013
RolStoppable said:
I am still baffled that companies think that changing the dynamics of the used games market in such a way is a good idea. The best explanation I can come up with is that they assume that gamers are like drug addicts, so people will pay whatever they get asked for.

Conversely, this is a market where folks repeatedly spend $60+ on a product they admit they're not really sure they want, and often don't get around to playing. Then there are all those "here's my massive Steam backlog of games I paid for and haven't even tried in X years" threads.



Wlakiz on 29 May 2013

they are not saying don't have used game.. it just that they want a cut from the transfer of used game.. like a developer tax.



Jazz2K on 29 May 2013

I hope they do more deals also... like they do on Steam.