I definatly did not see SNES games sell for $60, and I have most of the expensive ones. Chrono Trigger was $50, Earthbound was $50, Tetris was $40....No games on a Nintendo console sold for over $50 until the Wii U, it marked a first for $60 games. The only time a game cost above $50 prior to now on a Nintendo console was if it came with a peripheral like a Super Scope or Wii Fit Board.

The number of debunk studios now, is much less then that in the 80's. You know what happened in the 80's? Games were cheap to produce, so we saw a lot of companies make utter crap, and the consumer just stopped playing. Competition is what makes games better, and there a lot more studios now then ever before, so we need to weed some out. It's sad that major studios like THQ have gone bust, but just like 3DO we will forget about them.

Plus it's not the smaller studios which compain about the used game market, it's mostly EA and Microsoft, and they are on top. EA is just plain greedy with online passes and exclusive rights to NFL, Porsche, etc. If you don't put the pressure on them after they keep making crappy games, then they'll just build a monopoly, and that will drive more studios out of buisness.

Actually SNES and Genesis games with large cartridges often sold for more than $50. The SNES port of SF2 went for $69.99 or more, Phantasy Star IV for Genesis was even more expensive. I remember my brother and I having to rent PSIV because my mother would pay that much for a game. This brings up another point. 

While games have a higher budgets now, the physical production costs are far cheaper now. Cartridgers were $25 or more depending on their capacity. Discs are less than $1 each. Game launches were riskier proposition during the cartridge era. If a publisher ordered 500,000 cartridges and their game sold 100,000 copies, they'd be looking at a 10 million dollar loss. Game publishers are using used games to divert attention away from their mismanagement.

Yeh, I will throw out all my older games that I love and regularly replay, because a random person on the internet recommended me doing so.

Has anyone ever stopped to consider that competition among developers has swelled to an INTENSE level? Think about how many different choices you have in any given genre (shooters especially)... of course it is becoming harder to make money in the industry because competition is fierce.

For all of those condemning used games... have you purchased every shooter made this generation, new? If not, shame on you for not supporting the industry. I can browse a gamestop, and half the titles I didn't even know EXISTED. But yeah, used games are the problem.

Its as if all these studios think it should be EASY to make money hand over fist. It's not. Not going to be.  Video gaming isn't your dirty little secret any more, or just for kids, but rather, a multi billion dollar industry that EVERYONE is trying to get a piece of.  Eliminating used games completely is not going to eliminate competition. In fact, people might start buying LESS new games and start dumping money into other forms of entertainment. Cell phone games. Movies. TV shows. Something outdoors **GASP.

If these studios want to make more money, they will have to be SMART with budgets etc.  And its not going to be easy.  Competition makes everything harder when you are tying to make a sale...

That might make games cheaper.....LOL

From what some of my friends tell me, Microsoft is trying to immitate Steam, and steam sells brand new games for dirt cheap. Old ones too, I remember when I bough Fallout NV Ultimate Edition for $30 on 360 (new), it was $5 on a Steam summer sale.

The problem is, Microsoft is immitating Steam poorly, and until they prove that they can mimic Steam on price, and make "summer sales" of their own, the One will have a lot of problems.