used games

Sony, We’d Like A Straight Answer About This Used Games Stuff

It’s a simple question: “Can the PlayStation 4 play used games?” After nearly a year of rumours, speculation and mysterious patents indicating that Sony could limit the play of pre-owned titles on its next-generation console we’re finally getting answers — answers that leave us with more questions.


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:


Maybe The PlayStation Orbis Will Play Used Games After All

Used games: you love them, need them and want to marry them. Publishers and developers blame the second-hand market for lack of innovation, saying the money they don’t see from used games would let them be more creative.


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.


Five Reasons A World Without Used Games Might Not Be So Bad

The next generation of gaming consoles might not play used games. Sounds terrible, right? Maybe not.


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.


GameStop Boss Thinks The Next Xbox Will Play Used Games

The head of America’s biggest chain of game shops said he thinks it is “unlikely” that the next Xbox will block the playing of used games.


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