GameStop's stock price closed lower than $1.30(a five percent loss overall)after word this morning that Sony had applied for a patent on technology that could restrict how used games are played on its next console.
"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.
If they did then collectors wouldn’t be getting f***** over with discless collectors editions
No shock, GameStop is alive because of trading. If they don't have used games on their shelves they are absolutely donezo.
Well of course the GS boss thinks this... that's their bread and butter business. That and funco pops and clothing, though those two were added as a means to supplement the decline in people buying used games or even new games. GS just sucks overall when it comes to gaming. I buy my physical stuff on Amazon or Best Buy.
As for "requiring" disc drives... nah. Not anymore, but i like having them as an option. They had a means back when games actually ran off the discs and were more/less complete. Now they are incomplete and the disc is really an installer with a license to play. If you want to change games you have to take out the disc and put in another. Its more convenient to just use digital. I have been into digital for years now and when the PSPortal comes along i wont even have to go into my game room. I will just play my PS5 from my couch downstairs. I have a bunch of digital installed games to my 5... I'm all set.
Gamingbible writes: "Luckily, if you’re living in the US you can trade your Xbox into Gamestop, where you’ll receive a hefty amount of cash as well as a $50 bonus for certain customers, just short of enough to buy the PS5."
At this point in time If I didn't own a PS5 I would have done this in a heartbeat but I had already acquired a PS5 first before I acquired an XBSX.
I'll stick to keeping both. Gamestop though... seems kind of desperate to take in Series X units. What could they be plotting???
I just want some games for my series X I have both since release and after weighing the offerings in PS Essentials to Gamepass I quickly realized I Owned anything of worth in both catalogs. And, the things I didn't I didn't see as justifiable for maintaining both subs.
Since then my series X is a legacy machine that I play my old games on and that's it. 3 years ago I really thought from that Xbox showcase we were going to have some great games by now. Instead, it's just been a lot of meh
GameStop’s chief financial officer is resigning, in the latest of several executive departures from the video game retailer.
im for this i will always support developers.. i bet sony will leave it upto developers to lock the game or not
I see no harm for single-player games/campaign.
But if this is to happen , don't make games more expensive , I understand costs for development are high but average consumer during holiday season cannot get all the games , thats half the reason some well-deserved games do not get sales since big ones tend to overshadow them.
the video gaming industry is the biggest bunch of babies ive ever seen. seriously dvds and blurays, cd's and mp3s, and comics and books are all typically under the video game standard of $60 and you don't see these industries trying to go after content or purchases for additional money or restricting the reselling of any of those things ive listed above. i mean i already bought the system, paid for the internet, paid for xbl, usually bought a second controller, and purchased a game. why are gaming companies and console companies so asinine?? so now this generation im expected to pay for dlc which is now usually game content purposefully withheld form the original game itself only to just be made available a week later at an extra cost. or now we have season passes for continuing content of many online shooters or fighters which are typally free on pc. and now these companies want to restrict used game sales for those of us who don't have cash to drop on a new $60 game each time one comes out, or if we want to barrow a friends game and try it out. console gaming is becoming a complete joke....
I'm sure it will not happen! This thing surfaces every time a new console is about to arrive. Microsoft had a shitstorm to endure about this same subject, now it's Sony.
The big three aren't stupid, they know everybody buys 2nd hand games! They will destroy their own company, and sales will fail so it will never happen. Don't you guys have brains and think? It's just some old patent some idiot used as a new DOOM article... because it's 2013 and the doomz haz tho continue he?
Jeez...
Honest question (that I want to know the answer to).