USED GAMES HAPPY DANCE!!!!!!! Sony Confrims it

[Damm64]

Yeah i saw the video and he makes a good points, what i still don't know is how used games didn't kill the industry in the last 20 years now all the sudden OMG USED GAMES ARE KILLING US

Probably a balance between development costs, and the prevalence of used game sales. I mean, seriously, Wal-Mart does used games (online at least). Target does. Best Buy does. While there's used merchandise of all kinds out there, it seems like video games stand out as something that major retailers that don't really offer much else preowned actually go out of their way to offer used.

Combine that with feature film level budgets that many titles don't wind up making back, and you can easily see where it'd be a problem.

Well here, in my country, the used games are selled but most of them are just for trade and i don't think they push the BUY THE USED ONE IS CHEAPER FOR YOU here... Does really the stores in USA throw you a used games when you want to buy a new sealed one? If thats really the case i can see a big loose of money for the companies.

[jinx]

Well here, in my country, the used games are selled but most of them are just for trade and i don't think they push the BUY THE USED ONE IS CHEAPER FOR YOU here... Does really the stores in USA throw you a used games when you want to buy a new sealed one? If thats really the case i can see a big loose of money for the companies.

Yup. This is especially true in recent years. We started going through the used game transition when I still worked for BestBuy. We pushed trading in products, because it made us more money. We give you $3 for a game that we're going to sell for $15. That's about $10 a product if you deduct the cost of processing. We probably only made about $5 of profit from new games, unless they were listed in the weekly ad or were on sale.

I could definitely see how this maybe hurting the industry now that everybody is jumping in, including major retailers.