The Daily Five: Groups Screwed By Killing Used Games

"Some see this whole thing as a novel way to put money into the developers’ pockets, and they certainly deserve to see a return on their work. However, killing the used games market would do irreparable harm to others, which is supposedly what companies like Microsoft are trying to prevent. Don’t believe us? Here are the five groups that would be affected by eliminating the used game market." - Joe Garcia

[Supermax]

GameStop will make the same percentage selling a used game as it does a new release wich is 10 percent,instead of the 100 percent they were making before.

[KarrBOMB]

Not even close to the truth. They get more money for used games, and not just a little more either. Gamestops used HW and SW in an earnings report, was 27% of their sales. But that 27% accounted for half of their total profit. If you don't understand, here's the link.

http://www.gamerswithjobs.c...

Basically, a smaller percentage equals a larger intake of profit. They keep all the cash for used games, most of the money on new games are the developers profit. So sorry Wheatthins, you are completely wrong. You have it backwards.

[KarrBOMB]

Sorry Wheatthins, I thought you were saying Gamestop currently makes the same with new and used sales. My bad man.

[MasterOne]

Good article. I sale my used games to purchase new games. This is probably the case for a lot of folks.

[RiPPn]

I'm kind of a hoarder, I keep the games I really like, so I have over 100 PS3 and 360 games on the shelf. That said I do purchase a lot of "like new" games from both eBay and Amazon, and I do sell the games I know I'll never touch again. So this does affect me, and I think others who think it won't are going to find out the hard way that it indeed does.

[KarrBOMB]

Also, no borrowing or lending games go friends. No Gamefly if you use that service. No Redbox, EBay or Amazon. All to literally keep more money. Also I just heard that no current 360 accessories will work with Xbox one. So my Triton AX Pro "black Ops edition" and the $100 turtle beach headphones are worthless on the Xbox one.

[mydyingparadiselost]

MS, killing jobs and taking profits. Unless no one buys the console....

[b_one]

in Poland used games are mostly small shops and ebay like sites... other big shops has silly prices.

[rainslacker]

1.Military: MS already said they might make an exception for military. May not have been a consideration while drawing all this up. The fact that they would need a consideration just proves the comments are true though and not misinformation.

2. Charity: MS would likely waive fees and facilitate transfers for charity organizations. MS is already contributes heavily to many charities around the world. For them it would just be a tax write off.

3. Independent retailers: Possible. But hard to say because we don't know how it's going to be implemented.

4. Rental: Could end up being a rental version like what is done with movies, in that rental places can buy more expensive rental versions of the product. This means it could still be rented, but the extra costs would be passed onto the consumer. Either that or MS intends to offer it's own rental service. Sony does this in a way with full game trials...not sure how it would work for an entire game though.

5. New game buyer. This goes without saying, and not just for the reasons stated in this article. New game buyers are not buying a game anymore, they're buying a license under this scheme, so they aren't really going to own anything tangible, or completely under their control.

On point to the article, yes the cost of the fee will be passed onto the consumer, likely in the form of a lower trade in amount, which means it will be harder for some new buyers to get the latest game on release. COD pubs should go into gamestop on release day of Ghosts, and see how many people are trading in their old games to pick up their new title. It may be somewhat humbling to them to see how this could easily effect new game sales. I can't even count how many people I see trading in games on the release day of any big title.