From GamesReviews:
"More than once, the second hand video games market has been called worse than piracy. Like piracy, the actual creator of the game gets absolutely nothing from your playing their title, but unlike if you'd just downloaded the game for free, you're actively giving your money to somebody else, and the difference in cost that that makes is often either very small (a matter of £2-3, especially at launch) or available specifically because the developer isn't getting a single penny from the sale.
"With the next Xbox again rumoured to block used sales, we take a look to see just how abolishing the used games industry might benefit both the industry and the consumer."
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
Rockstar Games’ shiny new Red Dead Redemption port is now on GTA+, and you can play it while claiming some tasty GTA Online benefits.
Rockstar still strying to make GTA plus work
Should be $6 for the rdr game on sale not 6 bucks for a months playtime
Rumors indicate that Palworld will soon enjoy a raise to the level cap, but this isn’t the only way that Pocket Pair should expand the endgame.
Pros - MO MONEH!! $£$£$£$
Cons - Drown in the tears of your customers
Majority of the gaming, albeit including casuals, already give away the possibility of on-selling their games as they digitally download. If all DD games were priced to reflect that you can no longer on sell then the idea of no second hand games might be more palatable. However, chances of that happening is slim as both Sony and MS overcharge for DD games.
Informal poll.
Agree to this message if you think blocking used sales is fine and you will buy a console that blocks used sales.
Disagree if you won't buy a console that blocks used sales.
im not even going to touch this probably very well written and carefully thought out article because there is absolutely no decent justification to blocking the use of used games.
pardon my language friends, but i honestly couldnt give a flying f*** about how it will benefit hardware manufacturers. as if these trillion dollar companies need any more of my hard earned money? the very idea can leave an individual seething in anger.
any company that even seriously contemplates the idea of blocking the use of used games should crash and burn miserably. Greedy pigs, nothing more.
any manufacturer that does this, be it MS, sony, nintendo, or an unnamed manufacturer, will not be getting a cent of my money come next gen. so go ahead and implement this type of thing. see what happens.
@XXDubStepXX
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The reason that digital distribution is more expensive than brick and mortar stores is BECAUSE of the used market. They're not allowed to out-price themselves at retail, and retailers can enforce that because they know not selling a specific title is going to hurt the publisher more than it will hurt them (because they'll have used copies to sell days after release anyway).
You only have to look at the comments made by companies like Paradox during the GAME liquidation last year, and by members of the PS Blog whenever this matter is brought up. Retailers hold a ton of power, and until we go full digital or until publishers can afford to go without selling at GAME and Gamestop, cheap digital games on consoles is going to be impossible.