"The Used Games war rages on. Which side of the line do you fall under? In this piece, Eject Disk will go behind the front lines and take a look at the battle from the consumer's point of view."
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The digital side. What do I do with digital games I no longer need but paid good money for? I no longer want to wait in line to buy hard copies then have to find a safe place to store and care for them. I want to sell and trade digital games. Sharing them would be nice too.
The inclusion of the statistic is odd because it is a little biased in nature
"In an interview with Gamasutra, GameStop president Paul Raines has commented on this exact transaction. According to him, some 70 percent of what consumers net in trade-in value is then spent on new games, resulting in $1.8 billion dollars of revenue that devs and publishers otherwise wouldn’t see a penny of."
It is from GameStop and it is also hard to believe. If they are buying used games to start with, why are they using the savings on new games? Surely they would still go for used games as they are cheaper
The problem with used game sales is that it stops generating as much income for games after release. With the amount of used copies around, there is no need for game shops to go out and buy new copies of games especially when they have a financial interest in shifting the used copies.
A good example is Heavy Rain.. a few months back I wanted to pick up a copy of this game and going into my two local GAME shops I couldn't find a single brand new copy of it. This either leaves me with getting a second hand copy or waiting a few extra days and buying it new online.
Now I'm pro used game sales and don't like the idea of any company telling me I can't sell something I bought however I can see how it damages the market and that's why I usually always only ever buy new games.
People should stop dahfending the xbox one remember what they tryed doing with used games??
And as far as the hole ram ps4 rumour going around its beeen debunked so try hard xbot losers
yeah in not rich (also not a kid anymore so no more mommy or daddy to give me money for my gaming needs)
i sell some of the games i purchase in order to buy new up coming ones.
with this, buying a new release ip from big dev/pub or even new ones isnt much of a problem, i can easily sell it(if i end up not liking it) and help found for the next one. without this practices i will be picky and just stick to a well know ip or dev.