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Originally Posted by Russic
Here's my question to you: as somebody who buys used games, do you actually think your $500 is incentive to them? Microsoft doesn't give a damn about you. I don't mean that in a "big corporations don't care" sort of way, I'm saying that from their perspective the gamer who has 80% used games in their library isn't a valuable customer. They and the developers make no money off you, and in reality you probably cost them money because they are the ones paying to keep the Live servers going.
Anybody thinking Sony won't come out with an exact replica of whatever Microsoft is doing at E3 is going to be in for a world of disappointment. You can get your "console gaming is dead" arguments ready, because it's coming. Graphics aren't the only thing that we console users lag behind the PC users on... the environment is also something we haven't quite reached yet.
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That's a very good point. And I realize that from a business perspective, used games are a major major problem and, quite frankly, a completely untapped source of revenue for Microsoft and developers.
From a consumer point of view, I hate that they're going to start making money off used games. They will essentially be killing locally owned rental and used game stores. But such is business. Most business sucks.
Oh well, if PS4 does the same "used game fee" I'll have no choice but to suck it up.