Britton Bush’s Comments

• Jun 10th, 2009 @ 2:29pm

  Re: Re: give the video game companies a break

  on Video Game Companies Still Bitching About Used Game Sales
  A used item has less value because isn't as reliable, doesn't work as good and/or doesn't have all of the features as the new item might have. If you can put a video game in a counsle and it works ... then it is basically just as good as a new version as a the game. I understand a new sealed game loses value after a certain amount of time, so the companies lower the retail price this in turn decreases the value of the used game. When a video game company designs a video game almost all of there costs go into the programming, and marketing. So little cost goes into manufacturing, pakaging and the physical cd. So when a consumer buys a used video game (If the game works) they are buying it for the programming and actual game play, not the physical container and cd. If a used game works it has almost the same value as that game in a sealed package at gamestop. So with that being said because a used game that works has almost the same value of the same sealed game at gamestop the video game companies should recieve some of the revenue of selling that game. The consumer of the used game recieves the same benefit as a consumer who bought that game new. If a used video game has the same conusmer benefit as a that same game newley sealed then the video game companies should recieve some revenue for that used game because both customers (new and used) recieve virtually the same benefit.
• Jun 10th, 2009 @ 1:30pm

  give the video game companies a break

  on Video Game Companies Still Bitching About Used Game Sales
  Mike makes some good points, but video games cannot be compared to other used items such as a house or a book. Those items are worth less used because of physical wear and tear. The physical value of the video game is almost worthless. As long as the game works it has almost the exact same value of a new version of the game, therefore it is semi legit for the video game companies to get a share of the used game sale. The consumer of the used game is getting almost the excact same consumer benefit as the benefit the owner who bought the game new got.