Sentences with phrase «used games market»

Individual games prices will be compared against the overall used game market to see how they compare.

But if you want a good time, it's dirt cheap and littered used game markets for years.

And this doesn't take into account long - tail sales, and sales that would otherwise have been lost either to piracy or the multi-billion-dollar used game market.

Though I really want the DS version to get the Tome (best anti - piracy / used game market strategy ever).

Pick up the game secondhand, however, and you'll be forced to purchase an Online Pass at a price, with publishers working hard to sway fans from the burgeoning used games market.

Unfortunately, to enable the company to future - proof its strategy and give publishers a chance to access a part of the market that was previously closed off to them, the incumbent disc - based used game market is going to have to be managed differently.»

Put those two together and it's clear that Microsoft is doing just about everything it can to kill the used game market, in a couple of steps.

Funny how PC gamers are criticized utilizing the demo system they themselves created and how that takes away sales to developers, yet I can't recall the last time I read an article going after Console gamers for the used game market because last I checked, developers don't get a dime off someone reselling a game.

Even in the face of the economy, DeMatteo goes on to mention that GameStop was still able to open several new stores, expanding their hold on the used games market.

Perpetually under a cloud of controversy, the used game market is no stranger to damaging publisher sales.

Rumors have come out that Microsoft is, in an attempt to reduce the size of the used game market and bring in more money from royalties, working on a technology that would allow their next console to prevent people from playing used games.

So what do you guys think of the used game market next generation?

I used to support the used game market back in the EB Games days because it wasn't all about greed.

And considering how David Cage games are love it or hate it games B: 2S is gonna be big on the used games market

Publishers aren't interested in the financial reasons, they're interested in killing the used games market and taking away consumer rights.

The used game market is a Friend of the People, especially if you're playing on consoles.

The online pass was of course introduced so that publishers could make money out of the used games market.

the problem again is not piracy, the problem is that there is too much money in the used games market that places like game stop etc are making.

Today, I'm going to touch on the used game market.

This eliminates a great deal of cost to consumers and developers AND takes the used game market out of the equation.

This video, Poli Games host Joseph, talks about Microsoft's newly announced Game Pass and how Microsoft's, Games Pass could spell the end for GameStop and the use game market.

However, at the expense of the complete destruction of the used game market.

Yea great idea kill the used game market and the entire third party network after.

Last week, Sony was able to capitalize on the bad blood engendered by Microsoft's policies by stressing its commitment to the used games market and the fact that there's no online requirement for its upcoming PlayStation 4 system.

If you want to start taking a piece of the used game market, you need to meet consumers halfway.

Developers will never admit it publicly but, without the used game market they would be screwed.

And I know people generally only think of the GameStop juggernaut when they think of «Used Games» but there are literally thousands of different game stores out there with hundreds of employees who depend on the used game market.

«PDLC helps defend against the used games market and helps maintain your games» prices in the marketplace,» he said.

Developers that chose to design and sell premium downloadable content alongside their retail console games can help curtail the used games market - and also stand a chance of generating over $ 10 extra revenue with every unit sold, says Microsoft.

The Xbox One will not require publishers to enforce fees or restrictions on the used games market but they can, if they chose to, many of us know what this means, there will be some sort of barrier to the used games market with the dawn of the new consoles.

The maybe bigger point of contention is the used games market, will Xbox One block used retail titles?

Our understanding is that only «participating retailers» like GameStop will be able to facilitate the used games market but again that leaves rental companies in the dry — potentially at least.

With EA's Online Pass and THQ's similar systems, not to mention Ubisoft's dalliance with game - breaking DRM, sneakily worming holes into the pockets of gamers everywhere and trying to stifle and suffocate the used games market, Treyarch have issued a statement suggesting that siphoning more money out of your audience isn't necessary to promote new games, and that they will be instead be advocating massive post-release support to gamers from trading in their copies:

In a time when just about every single game company is struggling to find a way to cut out the used games market and force gamers to buy new, Nintendo is the only company that's thus far doing it right, all thanks to a simple concept.

This would have the side effect of gimping the used game market.

The used game market gets your product out there, so how is that a bad thing?

The bottom line here is that if developers want in on the used game market... why don't they just get in on the used game market?

Since I'm so used to being out of the used game market, I don't care about the measures anyone might take to exclude me from it.

The insistence on killing the used games market and absolute requirement for an online connection to even use the machine was also bordering on insane.

The used game stores that make a killing off the used game market will not stand for that, and when GameStop tells Sony «Guess what?

While I'm going to cover my feelings about Microsoft's strange handling of the subject in their own rundown, it needs to be said that Sony has not offered any solid details concerning what it plans on doing with the used games market.

While GameStop sees 48 % profit margins from the used game market developers struggle to stay floating in the industry.

While I'll still opt for a physical copy of a title I want to acquire, Digital downloads have changed the way I purchase games, more so than the used game market.

Alas, next gen consoles will almost definitely have some way of safeguarding against the used game market and will make us buy new to play there games or be charged some kind of fee (like EA) to play anything besides the basic campaign.

In fact, the cheaper «greatest hits» type re-releases and, to a lesser extent, budget titles didn't come in to play until long after the used game market had been established.