Go to Xbox Academy - xba.psuni.com  Blitz: Used game market
worse than piracy  30 Comments | posted  In a recent interview
with Develop, Blitz’s Andrew Oliver discussed some of the main
issues currently plaguing the gaming industry as a whole. While
many believe that piracy has been running rampant and is the
driving force behind millions of dollars of loss revenue, Oliver
believes that one other form of game’s sales is a bigger threat
to the industry itself. Oliver is of course talking about the
used game market.  “Arguably the bigger problem on consoles now
is the trading in of games,” he said.  “I understand why players
do this. Games are expensive, and after a few weeks of playing
you’ve either beaten it, or got bored of it so trading it back
in to help pay for the next seems sensible when people are short
of cash.”  Though understanding the reasoning behind the
decisions gamers make and completely agreeing with them to an
extent, Oliver adds: “money going back up the chain is a
fraction of what it was on