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In 2009 Gamestop, one of the world's leading video game retailers estimated their used game revenue at almost two billion dollars, and in the following two years the secondary games market has become an issue that very few gamers can avoid. Publishers and Developers have taken notice of these figures and are trying to find a way to cut into a piece of the pie with the ever more common Online Pass. Whether you stand firmly for or against the online pass, the supply side of video games is on the verge of a major face lift.
There are misconceptions and misinformation on both sides, and those in support of the pass champion the measure as merely being fair to the developers, and those against it feel that the consumer is paying for inflated budgets. In this series we will take a look at the business side of the industry as it relates to distribution and profit sharing. We'll track a game from developer pitch to retail distribution, and ultimately into the consumers hand and w...
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While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.
Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!
Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o
Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!
We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!
It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Today, Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, alongside the full year.
Split Fiction has sold nearly 4 million copies, and the next battlefield is confirmed for a release by March 2026 with a reveal this Summer.
Definitely an interesting read here; an angle of the used games debate that isn't often covered. Turns out, games are crazy expensive to make, and the industry can be extremely volatile for nearly everyone but the well known giants. Should be interesting to see what comes in the next few months.
I would rather give my money to the people that create the games