Whatever happened to the used games problem that was destroying the industry?

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burninmylight on 11 December 2016

bdbdbd said:

LurkerJ said:

Most of you have figured out why it's no longer a problem. One reason that hasn't been mentioned so far is the rising barriers to entry.

"Barriers to entry are the existence of high startup costs or other obstacles that prevent new competitors from easily entering an industry or area of business." that means it's harder to start a company and become the next EA or Ubisoft these days, so the top 4 get less competitors eating their cake.

This is also why the big publishers play the blockbuster model and spam the market with shovelware. This is also the opposite to Nintendo's strategy on DS and Wii (that were to lower relatively the barrier of entry). One of the explanations why the big third parties didn't like Nintendo that much.

Two excellent posts.

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cosmic_drift on 11 December 2016

Used games have always been a cornerstone of the industry since day one. The bigger issue at hand is skyrocketing development costs which cause minuscule things like this to be an actual problem.

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d21lewis on 11 December 2016

On a related note, does anybody else remember Nintendo trying to make it illegal to rent games?

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LudicrousSpeed on 11 December 2016

JRPGfan said:

Sony said "lets just allow people to borrow to others, like they have always been allowed".
And their around 370m sold in software.

Its just greed..... MS wanted it gone, really badly start of gen.

So what happend?

Sony protected your rights, as a gamer, and today you can still enjoy used games if you want too.

lol... what? Is this satire? Sony was one of the few pubs last gen charging gamers money for online passes. They were one of the companies spreading the used games are bad narrative. They flip flopped this gen because they saw the massive backlash against MS, as any smart company would.

Look at all the negativity MS caught last gen because of pay to play online. The MS reveal and subsequent backlash was so strong, Sony was able to reveal they were also removing free online play and no one gave a shit. It's less about a multibillion dollar company like Sony being a good guy and sticking up for you and more about MS's mistaken and Sony wisely taking good advantage in order to make money.