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I Should Be Able To Buy Used Video Games, That’s My Right
You buy a car. You buy a brand new car. It’s expensive. Your friends call you an idiot, but who cares. You love cars. You love that new car smell.
But imagine if, when it came time to buy a new car, you weren’t allowed to sell your old one. That car you bought brand new a few years back? You can’t trade it in for a new model. Now take things a little further: imagine if, from the second you plunked your buttocks in the seat and gripped the steering wheel, only you could drive the car you just bought from the moment it left the showroom till the day it hit the scrap yard.
Insanity.
No Box? Half Price! The Art Of Buying Used Games In Japan
This last week I took my annual trip to the US to visit family. Like always, while I was there, I made sure to hit up the used game stores and buy games that have never come out in Japan — i.e. Dead Space, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, etc. Despite having lived in Japan for so long (eight years now), it still surprises me how different it is buying used games elsewhere.
Gamestop Exec Says 70% Of Used Game Credit Goes To Buying New Releases
Gamestop CEO Paul Raines knows that his business isn’t exactly a favourite of most developers, who see the retailer’s profits from pre-owned games as a big insult. But he insists that Gamestop isn’t the bad guy. Used games actually help people learn about the medium, Raines says in a Gamasutra interview:
Yet Another Game Developer Claims Used Games Kill Innovation
rumours continue to swirl about the next iterations of the PlayStation and Xbox consoles. With nearly nothing actively confirmed by either Sony or Microsoft, one of the most popular recurring threads is that the consoles will in some way block the owners’ ability to play secondhand, used copies of physical games.
Developer Hopes Microsoft And Sony ‘Go Nuclear’, Destroy Used Game Sales
Many, many rumours continue to fly around the internet concerning the future of Microsoft and Sony’s game consoles. One of the most contentious and repeated assertions about the next iterations of both the PlayStation and the Xbox is that neither will easily support used, rented or secondhand games.
Studio Head Claims Used Game Sales Will Doom The Entire Industry
Secondhand games have been the bread and butter of retail chain GameStop for years, and the target of publishers’ ire for just as long. Many consumers prefer not to pay the new retail price (a hefty $US60, for most titles) for every game they play, and the system of selling and purchasing pre-owned discs works well for a significant number of those players.
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