🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:23:08 +0000, pc games <pcgame...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>"Hollenshead suggested numerous solutions... abandonment of PC
>development and focus on console games, where piracy is not as
>prevalent."
>

Ah, yes... but used-game retail sales of console titles is truly
endemic. So the developers leap from frying-pan into fire. 

Gamestop would go out of business if the industry ever devises a
<customer-acceptable> way of preventing console used-game sales. The
typical retail margin on used-game sales is 50% !! Trade in nets only
~30% of the <current new-game market price> for the seller, then the
store turns around immediately and marks that up to at least 80% of
current price, and on the really popular titles 90%. My local
EBX(Gamestop) store has one complete wall of the store totally
dedicated to close-packed used console titles for all the
current-generation (PS2, Xbox, Xbox360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP) consoles
and handhelds and then close-packed racks of used-games for PS1 and
other older consoles.

John Lewis