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90% of my games are second hand, no PS3 for me (already decided on that for a while now, but this really confirms it)

Hahahahaha.

 

Sony F t L!

Old news. I'm ashamed to be standing up for sony, but:

 

 

 

Sony Refutes 'No Used Game Sales' Rumour.

Wow, Sony is a dumb***.

 

Good thing I never liked PS2 too much.

Old news. I'm ashamed to be standing up for sony, but:

 

 

 

Sony Refutes 'No Used Game Sales' Rumour.

 

 

 

Agreed :P

 

 

 

 

 

But then, everyone needs someone to pick on :roll:

 

 

 

Especially because they know better than a multibillion dollar business :P

Meh, even if the rumours that Sony might be planning to go through with this were true at some point, they definiately won't do it now. Every company knows that the availability of second hand games is an important way for gamers with limited budgets to use their concoles. It's brand expansion even if they don't profit from second hand sales directly. I don't think I would enjoy my Gamecube nearly as much if I couldn't occasionally pick up an 'old' game like Eternal Darkness for ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì5.

Meh, even if the rumours that Sony might be planning to go through with this were true at some point, they definiately won't do it now. Every company knows that the availability of second hand games is an important way for gamers with limited budgets to use their concoles. It's brand expansion even if they don't profit from second hand sales directly. I don't think I would enjoy my Gamecube nearly as much if I couldn't occasionally pick up an 'old' game like Eternal Darkness for ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì5.

 

 

 

Agreed.

yeah, it was a big rukus on a few other sites a few days ago. the marketers at sony would know better than to do something like that, it would completely kill the renting aspect of games.

Sony are really blowing thier chances in selling more then the Wii, im gunna get a gameboy sp instead of all of them :P

360 = Wii > PS3

Old news. I'm ashamed to be standing up for sony, but:

 

 

 

Sony Refutes 'No Used Game Sales' Rumour.

 

 

 

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Good thing im gettin a Wii

Has anyone actually read anything other than the first post? I posted a link to an official statement from Sony saying that this rumour is NOT TRUE.

Even if I do want a PS3 - I can't. Too much dough for me.

Even if the rumour was true (which it isnt).

 

I would still get a PS3, as it is far better than a WII.

 

 

 

It wouldn't have affected me, as i dont buy second hand games anyway.

 

 

 

~Jimmie

Even if the rumour was true (which it isnt).

 

I would still get a PS3, as it is far better than a WII.

 

 

 

It wouldn't have affected me, as i dont buy second hand games anyway.

 

 

 

~Jimmie

 

 

 

RichboiÃÆââââ¬Ã¾Ãââ

Even if the rumour was true (which it isnt).

 

I would still get a PS3, as it is far better than a WII.

 

 

 

It wouldn't have affected me, as i dont buy second hand games anyway.

 

 

 

~Jimmie

 

 

 

Must be a Scottish thing then. :wink:

First, there's a rumor floating around (wildly unfounded at the moment, mind you), suggesting that Sony will sell licenses for PS3 games. Basically you're paying your $50 for the license, and the actual software, digitally downloaded or a hard copy, is just a distribution method. This is to prevent the sale of pre-owned games. Amen, I say.

 

 

 

I believe the pre-owned game industry hurts gamers. Retail outlets buy these used games really low, and sell them really high. I've seen pre-owned games on sale for like $3 less than a brand new copy. $50 for a used game they probably paid $20 for. $30 profit, and the video game companies don't see a cent of it. In fact they've lost a potential sale.

 

 

 

Video games nowadays cost nearly as much to make as blockbuster movies. They're getting expensive, and between pirating and the pre-owned games market, it's getting harder for companies to recoup the expenses.

 

 

 

I know this is controversial. I know a lot of you are saying "But if I buy pre-owned, I can get games cheaper". Well yeah, if you're only looking at the here and now. But if half the consumers are waiting and buying the game used, then the game companies have to charge more on the original sales just to break even. And then the retail outlets are going to see a higher price cap, and take advantage of it to charge more for the used games. So over time you're contributing to increased prices across the board.

source for that quote bloodkilla87?

source for that quote bloodkilla87?

 

 

 

It's from Ctrl Alt Del Comics.

 

 

 

Bloodkilla, blogs =! news articles.

yeah its from ctrl alt del comics. tim posted the next day that there were a lot of things he didnt think of at first, that there were good arguments for both sides.

This rumor isnt true but Sony still copied the Wii's controler. It is nowere close to as good as the Wii but they still copied it. Aparently they only anoucned it to the game developers less than a month before E3 so most did not intregate it. Of the next gen consols, Wii is the only system that has introduced a revolutionary concept, the others only bosted their power or copied.

and acording to one website (of which the link i have lost) the blue-ray format of 'house of flying daggers' at E3 was actully being run off a DVD-R.

and acording to one website (of which the link i have lost) the blue-ray format of 'house of flying daggers' at E3 was actully being run off a DVD-R.

Yea, I believe you're correct.

 

There's no shortage of sources for those types of claims, most of which do have enough proof to support them.

Link

 

 

 

thats the web blog of the original claim, with pictures.