digitaltrends.com — While internal teams at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all hard at work designing and revising new console hardware, at least one next-generation console manufacturer may implement a way to kill used game sales faster than digital downloads.
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mizuhochanJan 27, 2012
Personally, I'd go out of my way to pirate games if this happened. I buy new games 90% of the time, but seriously, f**k any company that does this. If I buy a game, it's my f**king game, I can do what I want with it, including sell it.
nerysJan 28, 2012
Which just means I will never purchase one of those consoles or any games that do this.
Non negotiable. No debate no argument. My property or not interested. I don't do "licenses" either I own it or you get NOTHING from me.
Period.
motozeroJan 28, 2012
I'm glad I'm already prepared for the information wars. I have a PC and I know how to access much information. I think I might witness the 2nd internet in my lifetime once the corporations take this one. Hopefully that's before the world looks like the set of Robocop. I think consoles may have outworn there welcome compared to the affordability and cost effectiveness of the more powerful PC.
manicdvlnJan 26, 2012
Online keys, digital copies or even worse something like OnLive.
dandoniaJan 26, 2012
There will be law suits galore.
The_SovereignJan 27, 2012
If I can't sell it, then I won't pay for it in the first place.
jhw539Jan 27, 2012
The market will ultimately pass judgement on this. There is a huge market for cheaper games, which is currently fulfilled by used game sales. If used game sales are eliminated, I have little doubt that market will be satisfied somehow. Not sure how - premium versus basic versions perhaps, like hard cover versus paper back - but its too big a market segment to be left hanging long. Now, consumers will eventually be taken care of but Gamestop and the like who rely on used games sales may end up utterly screwed.
There isn't really a legal problem here as long as the game manufacturers keep it all fully above board. But there is a huge market problem, and (as Neflix learned) they piss off their consumers at their own peril.
regiborgJan 26, 2012
But which ridiculous,sole think of money..
rufiohoJan 26, 2012
Without a doubt the game manufacturers would love to eliminate the use gaming market
mogwuyJan 27, 2012
Yeah I would love to see Gamestop go out of business, but the whole stopping people from buying used games is ridiculous.
danchairJan 26, 2012
This is ridiculous - I thought we were meant to be reducing waste and landfill, rather than encouraging more production of the same thing.
I can usually find a new game cheaper than it is in any of my local second-hand retailers, or at least as close enough to make it worth going for new, but when I come to selling old games, as I frequently do, this will make it impossible - people are going to have to buy new instead meaning more plastic and what do I do with my unwanted copy? Bin it?
I'd be interested to know whether this is going to have an impact on lending games too.
Crazy. Thank God it's not Playstation ;)
trdrstvJan 27, 2012
"I'd be interested to know whether this is going to have an impact on lending games too."
Yes absolutely... you won't be able to do it.
Also if you think Playstation is immune then buy a downloadable copy of warhawk and try to go online with more local players. Unlike the disc version (which lets you go online with up to 4 players simulaneously) the downloadable version only allows other players if THEY TOO own the game.
filaryJan 27, 2012
FTA- "The most likely scenario of this protection method would tie anyone with an active Xbox Live account and Internet connection to a specific disc of a new game release."
So siblings in the same household wouldn't even be allowed to share a game without sharing an account?
xx4001Jan 27, 2012
Hurray all this online downloading at a time when, data caps are the new push for Internet companies.
beersnob87Feb 9, 2012
lets see how much money you get when no one wants to buy your products at all.
dmm219Jan 28, 2012
the current batch may be my last gaming systems...unfortunately...
agmlauncherJan 27, 2012
Well then game developers better start delivering some worthwhile content. Right now, 10 hours of story that you can get through in a day ain't worth $60. Not even close. The only thing that might be worth $60 is something like Final Fantasy 7.
Borderlands is good, but once you've played through the game with each character, there's no point to playing it anymore (unless you're trying to farm Crawmerax for Pearls). If you can sell the game for $20, then you've spent $40 on approximately 40 hours of gameplay. Still not a great value, but better than $60...
youaretooJan 27, 2012
They are crazy if they go through with this. It will be suicide for them. They think that it will force people to buy games new if there is no used alternative, but they fail to realize those people just won't buy the game at all. Whatever increase in revenue they would see from only selling new games would be offset by all the people who refuse to buy consoles because they won't play used games. I know I won't buy any console that goes through with this. I don't know why they feel the need to implement this now when it will already happen when everything goes digital only distribution eventually.