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The recent discussion about a used game blocking technology for the next generation of home consoles has prompted an analyst to argue that any kind of solution to eliminate used games sales will hurt hardware developers more than it could help them.
Michael Pachter, who watches the video game industry for Wedbush Mo... |
22 May 2012
05:55 GMT |
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A new online retailer called EKGaming has announced that it plans to implement a new used game sales system which will reward publishers with a ten percent cut of their revenue, addressing one of the biggest problems that the industry has with the concept.
The company says that it is creating its new system in order... |
26 April 2012
20:31 GMT |
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A recent rumor about the next Xbox-branded home console from Microsoft has suggested that the device might implement a way of stopping gamers from playing used games, but the biggest specialist video game retailer says that there is no technical way to implement such a feature.
Paul Rainer, the chief executive offic... |
23 March 2012
18:41 GMT |
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GameStop, the specialist video game retailer, has announced a drop in both profits and revenues for the fiscal fourth quarter of the year while pointing out that it is still shifting its business model in order to incorporate digital distribution.
The company announced that, for the quarter that ended on January 28,... |
23 March 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Yet another high-profile video game creator has attacked the concept of an used game market, saying that it is making it harder for teams to create high-quality games because of the higher risks now involved in the creation and sales process.
Speaking to Gamasutra, David Braben, who is responsible for the creation o... |
20 March 2012
20:31 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer of the popular Witcher series of role playing games, has shared its thoughts on the recent rumors that future consoles could have systems in place to prevent owners from playing used games.
We’ve been hearing a lot about next generation consoles lately and how at least the oft-rum... |
9 February 2012
04:40 GMT |
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The rumor that the next Xbox console would have technology that prevents used games from being played on it has gotten some people very excited, as Volition designer Jameson Durall believes it will finally help developers gain more money from their hard work.
The used game business allows plenty of gamers to save mo... |
7 February 2012
04:39 GMT |
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The gaming industry has quite a few problems, from the negative image that’s still being portrayed by the media, to the piracy that is still affecting a variety of platforms, not just the PC. Another big issue, especially on consoles nowadays, is used gaming.
For those not familiar with the problem, gamers go ... |
28 January 2012
09:11 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks video game and hardware sales for the United States market, has announced that during the third quarter of 2011 gamers have spent more money on what it calls non-traditional business models than on packages that are sold at retail.The retail market has managed to reach a value of sold good... |
21 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Gears of War 3 and its first piece of DLC, the Horde Command one, caused quite a stir when players found out that the content for which they needed to pay extra was already on the game's disc, but the developer, Epic Games, admits that it's just a basic part of the making a game nowadays.Downloadable conten... |
18 November 2011
04:44 GMT |
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A new report launched by the market analysis firm Newzoo has shown that sales of used titles and of digitally distributed content make up 35 percent of the overall amount of money spent on video games in the United Stated.23% of the money is linked to the second hand game market, which publishers and developers have ... |
8 November 2011
09:18 GMT |
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The market research firm Newzoo has launched a new study which shows that more than half of the people who are playing video games in the United States are not willing to spend any actual money on the titles that they like and they instead rely on trading to get access to them.The study says that there are 82 million... |
7 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The downloadable content strategy for Red Dead Redemption, which saw a steady of stream of add-ons appear for it, was devised to keep owners from trading in their copies, thus preventing the loss of profit due to used game sales, at least according to its publisher, Take-Two Interactive.Red Dead Redemption was releas... |
16 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Both developers and video game publishers have long talked about the evils of the used games market and now one leading studio has put a number on the losses that it has suffered because of sales of second hand game copies.Guillaume de Fondaumiere, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Quantic Dream, has told GamesIn... |
13 September 2011
17:21 GMT |
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GameStop, one of the world's biggest video game retailers, has shared its view on the used game business and how, despite the general opinion, such a system actually benefits both developers and publishers.
The pre-owned games debate has been going on for quite some time, with developers and publishers saying... |
23 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve has announced that it is testing a Steam based system which will allow users to trade, in a secure and legitimate environment, in-game items and even full video games that are available on the service.Steam Trading is at the moment limited to items that have been obtained by players in Team... |
10 August 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Sony has announced that it plans to include a PSN Pass in new copies of some of its first party titles starting with the launch of Resistance 3 in September.
The company says that the Pass will be needed by players in order to get “full online access” for the... |
7 July 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Capcom has launched Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS handheld recently, but the company failed to make potential purchasers aware of the fact that there is no way of deleting save game data that the game creates.
Those who get the new game will be able to save their progress, but there's... |
29 June 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Denis Dyack, who is the leader of developer Silicon Knights, has said that, while a lot of teams are still interested in creating complex single-player experiences, there's a clear pressure coming from video game publishers to develop multiplayer modes as a way of combating the used games phenomenon.
The vete... |
30 May 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Video game developer Lionhead has voiced its opinion that the existence of a secondary market for used games for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft (and presumably for the PlayStation 3 from Sony) is far more of a threat to video gaming than the piracy that assaults the PC market. Matt West, who is a combat designer workin... |
18 May 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware creator Sony has taken the 10 Dollar Project from Electronic Arts one step further, announcing that all those who pick up a used copy of its shooter SOCOM 4 will need to pay no less than 14.99 dollars in order to get access to some weapons and some multiplayer content which is includ... |
20 April 2011
17:41 GMT |
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THQ doesn't really want to kill the pre-owned game market as the publisher understands the desire of gamers to monetize their investments, but, at the same time, wants to keep them from trading in a game, through great content, and from buying it used, through methods like the online pass.
The latest title pu... |
21 March 2011
03:35 GMT |
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Large games retailer GameStop has just revealed that the possibility of extending its used business to downloadable content is possible, but that it won't happen anytime soon.
Seeing as how digital distribution is becoming more and more popular, and with publishers like EA saying that it will overtake the tra... |
11 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has just talked about pre-owned games, and what strategies publishers like his company should take in order to stop people from trading in titles or buying used copies.Besides sharing some insight on Activision's strategy, Kotick also took a shot at rival EA, and its own Pro... |
18 November 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Brian Farrell, who is the Chief Executive Officer of THQ, has said that the move to charge those who buy games second hand for the online play modes has show the publisher how much money it is loosing because of the secondary market over which they have no real control.In a talk with MCV Farrell stated, “What w... |
22 September 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard posted pretty good results for the second financial quarter of the year, with titles like Call of Duty and the World of Warcraft MMO pushing its profits up. The company is also preparing to launch high profile titles in the coming years, like the Cataclysm expansion for its main MMO and the Black ... |
9 August 2010
05:03 GMT |
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The Online Pass idea was met with a certain level of hostility when it was announced but it seems that it is genuinely helping publisher Electronic Arts in its effort to limit the sales of used games. The system means that sports games published by the company come packed with a code which can be only redeemed once t... |
6 August 2010
13:41 GMT |
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GameStop, one of the biggest retail chains specializing in the sale of video games, has announced that it is buying Kongregate, a gaming community built around social and indie projects that are playable through an Internet browser. All the titles are free to play and the content is delivered via Flash. The company s... |
29 July 2010
02:57 GMT |
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A recent study by the NPD Group shows that gamers in the United States spent no less than 4.5 and up until to 4.75 billion dollars during 2009 on used games, rentals, subscriptions, digital downloads and downloadable content. The figure also includes mobile applications. Taking into account the new figures, the resea... |
21 June 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is still maintaining that the Project Ten Dollar initiative, which offers exclusive content for free for those who are prepared to buy a videogame like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or Mass Effect 2 while making those who get it from the used market pay for it, is not aimed at the second hand sales of vi... |
7 June 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is satisfied with its Ten Dollar Project and will introduce the Online Pass, which will charge used game buyers 10 dollars in order to allow them access to the multiplayer features of EA Sports titles. Ubisoft is watching from the margins and doing something similar. But despite all the heat coming do... |
24 May 2010
02:04 GMT |
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This week the news was dominated by the war on the used games market, with Electronic Arts acting with initiatives like the Online Pass and the Ten Dollars Project, THQ following with UFC Undisputed 2010 and Ubisoft watching to see how it all plays out. We also got into the fray with this week's Weekend Reading ... |
23 May 2010
07:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts might have announced its Online Pass initiative, which is set to offer free multiplayer features only to those who buy the new game, but THQ is already done implementing it in UFC Undisputed 2010, the MMA title that is set to arrive on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, with the launch date set for M... |
21 May 2010
15:01 GMT |
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It seems that French videogame publisher Ubisoft might be first to follow in the commercial footsteps of Electronic Arts and its Project Ten Dollars in their effort to reduce the sales of used games and entice players with exclusive content and with access to multiplayer modes to buy the new games.
Alain Martinez,... |
21 May 2010
13:31 GMT |
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James Collins, a player in Hayward, California, has filed a lawsuit against retail chain GameStop claiming that the company is “deceptively misleading” all its customers by making it seem like buying a used game will grant access to all the DLC released for the game, when this is not always the case.Colli... |
1 April 2010
16:31 GMT |
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2009 was not a very good year for videogames, with overall sales down and only price cuts making gaming consoles an interesting buying proposition for players. Yet GameStop, the retail chain best known for its used game deals, managed to do well, seeing sales going up by 3.1% to reach 9.08 billion dollars, although o... |
23 March 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Those who buy new copies of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 (that's quite a name) should look closely in the package and make sure they save their PlayStation Network authentication code, which is needed if they ever intend to play the game online in multiplayer. Those who are interested in picking up th... |
19 February 2010
03:26 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 is now out in both European and North American markets and early looks at the game are saying that it's one of the best role playing experiences ever delivered to gamers and certainly on par with BioWare's 2009 release, Dragon Age: Origins, although in a very different setting.And one of the m... |
30 January 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 arrives on November 10 and GameStop is one of the companies set to benefit a lot from the launch. The brick and mortar retailer, which has been threatened by the development of digital distribution services, needs this king of big releases to get people in the store and to consolidate its position in... |
5 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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It seems that the used videogames market is beginning to be more and more attractive to big retailer chains that are not necessarily specialized in titles for the current gaming consoles.After Amazon began accepting used games and re-selling them and after chains like Toys'R'Us and Best Buy entered the mark... |
12 October 2009
04:43 GMT |
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For a long time, videogame publishers have been rallying against the practice of selling used games in specialty stores, saying that they undermine the industry by limiting the amount of money developers and publishers get from the public.Recently, special offers have appeared, which can only be taken advantage off b... |
15 September 2009
12:41 GMT |
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A while ago, a couple of big retailers, Best Buy among them, and even Internet-based Amazon announced that they planned to enter the used game business dominated by the videogame-oriented GameStop.Now, Best Buy seems to be ready to make a big move, with some stores running a promotion that promises players new games ... |
11 August 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Apparently, in Florida, stores are now required to get the prints of all those who are interested in picking up a used videogame. Such a measure sends the idea that gamers are criminals and buying and selling DVDs is basically the same as getting a gun. The measure seems to be coming from the legislature of the state... |
3 June 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Wal-Mart has announced that it has begun lending space in its stores to a third-party company, called E-Play, which runs automated kiosks for the purpose of implementing 77 “Video Game Buyback” stations. Only 2% of the stores that Wal-Mart operates in the United States will get a kiosk as part of a pilot ... |
20 May 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Amazon has just made another foray into the videogame market by introducing an Xbox Live Store, which allows all those interested to buy games that Microsoft puts on Xbox Live through the popular online store.It seems that this is only a step and that Amazon is also working on agreements with Sony, which publishes ga... |
9 April 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Reggie Fils Aime, the main voice of Nintendo of America, has said that used games, which he called “pre owned,” are bad for the consumer. Why? Well, mainly because Nintendo hopes that the videogames it releases, like Zelda and Personal Trainer Cooking Mama, are good enough for players to hold on to them. ... |
2 April 2009
06:52 GMT |
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Let's do a little recap: GameStop has been reporting very good financial results, in part as a consequence of the used games business that it sustains and being the only big retailer on the market; Toys R Us begins a test run in New York stores, trading in videogames for in game credit; Best Buy is also reported... |
10 March 2009
05:18 GMT |
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People know that some big shift is about to happen when more than one big company seems to be heading down the same road. We've talked a few days ago about the limited trial run that Toys R Us, the biggest retailer of kids material in the United States, is making in New York in relation to allowing customers to ... |
6 March 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Has anyone noticed how much we have been talking about used games lately? Our favorite story related to the subject is the news that there's a fresh charity, named quite simply Donate Games, which aims to get used games from players and sell them in order to get the money needed to support patients suffering fro... |
4 March 2009
04:22 GMT |
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The videogames industry has been talking quite a bit lately about the used game market. They have been vilified by publishers as one of the reasons of the limited growth the industry has seen in 2008. The idea is that gamers who get GTA IV or Gears of War 2 from someone who already played the game or from GameStop ar... |
3 March 2009
16:51 GMT |
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