I'm actually hoping that both Microsoft and Sony implement these rumored prevention tactics, because I wanna see those chumps fall hard.
Yeah, if these rumors come to fruition, fuck that noise. Makes the decision to stick with Wii U much easier.
I can understand, because developers should see some of the money from sales where Used Games cut them out of the equation (it would be different if Game Stop paid little royalties to the devs/whatever for each used game sale) and it's really unfortunate.
Again, it's about where you want your money to go to. Fat cats down in Texas who want to buy the latest Ferrari and continue paying 90% of their employees crap wages (I used to work at Gamestop, can you tell? :P) or developers, publishers, investors, etc. who went to the effort, and to some extent risk, to create a new product for you to enjoy and where any profits they receive may be used so they could create something else for you to enjoy.
Well the thing about that is it won't really hurt Sony or Microsoft, their gaming divisions are miniscule parts of the company they could just snip off.
PS- That pic made me lol, so +1.
I couldn't disagree more. That is greed plain and simple. You make a product, you sell it for the best price you can, and you move on. If someone is done with your product and wants to try to recover some of the cost by selling it to someone else that's their prerogative.This! Imagine if I wanted to clear some space in my garage and planned on putting out all my old He-Man figures for a yard sale. Would it be fair that Mattel comes in and says, "Nope, you gotta give us a cut of what ever you earn from those figures!!". No. I think the initial sales is all that these companies should be worrying about, because it's the initial sales, the release sales and how much a game sells, which actually counts regarding how well recepted a game is. If a game sells so many million copies upon release, that's "brand new" copies, not pre-owned ones.
I've always wondered how rentals actually worked. Like Blockbuster or Hollywood Video or Crazy Mike's. Do they pay royalties? If so, how are the royalty dues figured? Why is it okay to rent out videos or video games and make money, but not make copies and give them away for free? I'm digressing, though...Oddly enough, I think my reasoning applies to movie rental chains too. If a movie is in theaters you MIGHT want to see, but never get a chance to seeing it, what do you do? Wait until it comes out on video(DVD/Blu-ray). But, you dont' want to BUY it because, quite frankly, why SHOULD you? Movie ticket's, what, 12 buck(6 if you are lucky to go matinee)? You pay to see the movie, then if the movie sucked, all you lost was 12 bucks and the time the length of the movie. YOu don't have to drag around a copy of it(which would be a waste of space, ESPECIALLY if that movie sucked). What rentals did, at least for me, was basically a trail period where you watch something and(this IS what I do, since I was young, up until now) if the movie is good enough, I consider actually BUYING it. If I watch a movie I love, I'll ALWAYS buy it after previously renting it. Hell, I can say this with a straight face, hooked up to a lie detecting machine, 95% of my DVDs/Blu-rays in my home collection were bought after initially watching rental movies that I loved, and I bought ALL of them NEW.
Oh, I know--just tired of seeing them in the gaming market. If we could have one consolidated system for once, I think that'd be rad. We certainly don't need THREE options.
Ehh I think competition is good for you. It teaches you to think outside the box and re-invent it or get kicked in the teeth. Look what a snooze-fest pro-wrestling became after WWF was the only game in town.Competition's good when it allows you to think outside the box. Though, some of what I've seen is far from that. It seems more like they are all trying to appeal to mainstream gaming taste by playing the safe route. Not to mention, Microsoft and Sony are basically focusing on the Teen+ market while Nintendo is focusing on the E market. When they start to notice there are OTHER age groups they should try focusing on, competition might get a little more interesting. Imagine Microsoft and Sony aiming to appeal more to kids rather than teens and adults? Imagine Nintendo doing vice versa(which they say they plan on doing with the Wii U, I guess)?
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This is the best image of the PC gaming master race I've seen, unfortunately I've not been able to find out who the artist is.(click to show/hide)
Are there CD stores that lets you buy New and Used CDs, side-by-side of each other? Movie stores?
They wanna do a amateur move? Let them. When the shit hit the fan they will learn from their error.
Sony died for me since PS3 have abandoned backward compatibility, that my personal opinion.
According to this (http://www.destructoid.com/sony-ps4-won-t-block-used-games-246220.phtml) Sony is not blocking used games for the PS4.
Lets time I saw, PS4 is in the $700 territory, which is bananas.
And it's when consoles cost that much that I start seeing the glory of the whole PC gaming thing. ;p My biggest reason for never having a PC of my own has always been initial cost of building one and also adding components over time to soup it up, whereas with consoles you pay a base price ($200–250) and never have to upgrade anything, save for the N64's expansion pak.
But when you have consoles costing upwards of $500, no way, dude. At that point, throw in a few hundred more and get a really nice gaming computer that'll last you a long time, not something that essentially has inferior tech out of the box.