Good heavens. The man himself:
Point being: Citing development costs as justification for squelching the used games market doesn't really fly, as AAA title development has always been costly in one way or another. Yet we didn't hear much noise about sales of used Nintento carts, or used Sega carts, or used Playstation discs...
Well, of course it affects them (to unknowable degrees), just as used car sales affects car manufacturers, just as used book stores affect book publishers. My issue is their raising a stink about it in the apocalyptic terms they have.GrahamS said:
We are in violent agreement. If you were looking for a poster child on how to construct a used game sale and rental business in the most dickish way possible, you'd be hard pressed to exceed GameStop. I never spend money there.
Perhaps not so odd for me. I shop at Fry's. They put non-defective customer returns back on the shelf, marked down slightly.
Not really relevant. Nintendo carts in the 1980's had a BOM cost of about $15-$20 each -- most of which was Nintendo's "because we can" charge. Sega carts weren't much better. This is what spurred EA to successfully crack Sega's platform locks (thereby forcing a more equitable deal), and eventually drove Trip Hawkins to launch 3DO...mjc0961 said:
Point being: Citing development costs as justification for squelching the used games market doesn't really fly, as AAA title development has always been costly in one way or another. Yet we didn't hear much noise about sales of used Nintento carts, or used Sega carts, or used Playstation discs...
