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this better not be true. Stick to the 360 if it is

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Scary Butt Fun
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

I’d expect next gen consoles to have mostly downloadable games.
 
Anyway I don’t care. I’m sick of Red Rings, things not working and hackers stealing my points. I can see the dedication and quality Microsoft put into their product. They’ve convinced me not to buy their next console.
 
PC MASTER RACE
MackTheKnife
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

I’m most like going to do an article on this very, very soon and shouldn’t show my cards ahead of time. But my small two cents on this.
 
This whole anti-used game thing that the Xbox Durango and PS4 are rumored to have is god-awfully stupid. If these turn out to be true, this will be the undoing of these consoles. They’re practically treating customers as if we’re all criminals now, making sure we played by they’re rules. Buying something used is not illegal in the U.S. and is probably much better to get something used if your has less income on your hands. I mean, look at car companies, they love that shit! They take in cars and sell them back as a “certified pre-owned” car. AND the regular used car business is still around, living alongside the CPO model.
 
The reason why used games has become demonized by devs and developers are because of stores like Gamestop that make large, and I mean large, profits off of selling used games for just $5 less than their new $60 counterpart. If the game was cheaper, the store won’t make much profit but will still make enough to live. Plus, if something like Black Ops II is selling huge, I’m certain selling those games at $30 used can still make for a decent haul for the store and not look so back when publishers see these stores make $55 dollar profits on single games.
 
And what these publishers forget is that used games can still make new fans for those that were hesitant the first time around or are pretty new to the whole thing in the first place many years after the first game’s been released. When you get a fan, they’ll support you no matter what.
 
Renting the first Resident Evil on the PS1 made me a Resident Evil fan.  
Borrowing Air Combat on the PS1 made me an Ace Combat fan.  
Recently renting Digital Devil Saga makes me want to get both games, which can only be bought used since manufacturing has ended).  
Trying out Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on a friend’s GBA made me get my own copy and made me a FFT fan.
 
“They’re cutting into our profits and making us broke!” Oh boo fucking hoo EA. Cry me a river Ubisoft. Shed those tears Activision. Cry some more Microsoft.‘Cause You have more than enough money ($50 mil budgets for these games) to overspend on making games. And you guys clearly make more than enough of that back to when your games are released. And if you guys have so much of a fucking problem, why don’t you just, I don’t know, Do what the car companies are doing and offer to buy back our games and resell them yourselves! Online on your website, or sent to a store to sell as used. Is that so much of a fucking problem?
 
And finally, what about when the generation is over, huh? What can I do then? What if in 2021 I want to buy a game from 2014. Guess what’ll happen when I pop that disc in?
Background Pony #E716
I honestly think I’m just gonna go PC and Wii U this gen. PC for all those really high end games that consoles would just get watered down ports of anyway, and Wii U for all the awesome exclusives like Bayonetta 2, Pikmin 3, and the next 3D Mario and Zelda games.
Background Pony #A404
@Background Pony
 
Ohhh, what is this? Because you dont like it it automatically is bad and everyone should feel bad for actually liking what you dont actually like?
Background Pony #91DA
@Background Pony  
Yeah, I sure do love those guys who leaked the credit information of thousands of people across the internet all because they were butthurt over bullshit
boz
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
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@Background Pony
 
Exactly, people want video game, if the industry is too repressive on them, they could stop playing, but they will miss that and so they whine to get a better product, even if they do not buy them anymore to be able to do it again.
 
A compagnie have the right to ignore them yes, but any other that will answer to their request will be received positively so it can be a good opportunity for some rivals.
Background Pony #A404
@Background Pony
 
A choice between a blender with metal razors or a blender with soft, vibrating motions, no cuts, and which crashes some times, but makes you want more.
Ripple_Shine
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@Background Pony  
I actually hadn’t heard about anything Sony did, so thanks for bringing that to my attention. I wonder if that has anything to do with why I haven’t seen some PS3 games show up on the PC?
 
As for the employee thing, it’s like that old adage; “Build a better mouse trap…”
Background Pony #CC73
Nintendo, Sony and PC is all you need.
 
Microsoft consoles went downhill after the first Xbox (Which was an awesome system)
Background Pony #3A27
@Background Pony
 
People have every right to whine and you can’t do anything to stop them corporate commando.
 
If the movies started costing 400 dollars and a TV required you to put your penis in a blender to watch you’d still have the option to go without these things and yet, being fans of these mediums you would feel upset, betrayed, and disenfranchised.
 
In a legal sense it’s true that a company owes you nothing. In the larger sense, however, people foster a sense of loyalty towards a product or medium (which is beneficial to the provider) and can feel emotionally betrayed when they learn that something they enjoy has fallen below their standards or expectations.
 
In short, you are asking people to deny their own emotions or concerns for no other reason than- well- what exactly? I don’t know.
Grandfather Mushroom

One major issue with the “no more used games” thing is that a individual copy of a game gets linked to an individual console. Which means no more lending or borrowing games from a friend, no renting, no giving your copy of a game to to your little brother/sister/cousin/niece/child, no more retro gaming and as a special screw-you to the original buyer if your console gets bricked/stolen/destroyed you might not be able to play the games you legitimately bought.
Background Pony #91DA
@Ripple_Shine  
To be honest, Sony managed to stop pirates for a good 6 years and failed on that front because of an employee leaking confidential information about the system’s hardware.
Background Pony #91DA
@Itsthinking  
Of course, that’s your right and privilege but don’t say that they owe you anything because they don’t.
 
That my beef, the people who whine that companies don’t have the right to do something with their product and act as if they don’t have the option to simply not buy it.