Nintendo Wipes Out Wii Speak Resale Value

[NuclearShadow]

If this behavior is allowed we could possibly be facing a risk of video games fading out. The average Joe simply cannot afford every single game he desires to play and will often wait and buy a used game.

This will cause gamers to be more cautious and only buying trusted titles such as Grand Theft Auto and hurting the sales of the less popular titles. Making developers and publishers scared to try anything new. Eventually this would cause prices to go up to make up for loss of profits which will just lead to even less sales. And we all know what would come of that.

Nothing good will come out of this.

 

[Guest]

wow these game companies are getting so damn greedy these days. theyare wantign to pcket money off resale now when they already got eh money from the first time the game was sold.

man the game industry is going to hell right now becuase stupid publishers are getting thier heads stuck up thier south entrance
Ea adn companies like them are trhowing securom virus ware on theri games , to force PC gamers into a "rental mentality", and now theya re wantign to unfnished games on console just so they can lock us in by forcing us to pay more for the ending? daaaaaammmnnnn they can't possibly be serious. these publishers with ehse ideas need to go live in some place like china where the government and companies always get to push consumer rights out of the way. the i see ALL pc games carryign securom , and all console games forcing mroe money from us or their endings , is the day i stop being a gamer , you GET this PUBLISHERS , STOP your BS or you will be shooting yoruself in teh foot i for one wont give money to any industry/company when it thinks it can step on our rights

EA startign throwing securom on all their pc games , i stopped buying EA games , period (and no i dont pirate them either i just boycott , adn do with out. i dont even know how to go about pirating games)/ and if i ever see a console game that forces me to pay more for teh ending , who ever makes the game can rest assured that thier name will be added to my boycotte list currently EA and UBIsoft are on there for securom usage in their reccent games ... whos next ?

 

[Guest]

in regards to a certain idiot that is talking out his rear about pc gaming

you obviously haven't gamed on pc's reccently, sure what you say might be true for 1992-1999 but for the last 5 years comp ahrd ware has remained fairly power fuor a few years before needing an update , and that aside any oen working a minimum wage job can builda new gaming comp every year with thier tax return (that is what i did , my gaming comp runs any thing i throw at it and it only cost me 789 bucks which still left me 300 bucks from my tax return for other things) my last computer made it 4 years before needign any upgrade to deal with games i expect this one will take me atleast three years befoer an up[grade is a requirement. so before you go insulting people or asking them if they are rich in a snotty tone you shoudl do your home work, go over to tom's hardware and youc an even see where tehy built a gaming sytem to jsut 500 bucks that gmaes pretty good when overclocked. oh also not your console prices go up ever generation , eventually your consoles will cost every bit as much as a gamign pc does.


oh also , let tally up the cost of a good gaming system ill even be fair and use the lowest prices avaiable online.

Console
xbox 360- 300 (with a hard drive, dotne ven dare yap to me abotut eh 200 dollar non ahrd drive version as it wont compare toa pc sicne it ahs no Hard drive)
cheap but deccent HD (27-30 inch) TVset - 700
online fee 250 dollars (roughly 50 bucks a year getting those subscription cards times thant by 5 years)
total - 1250 US dollars


PC
I'll be fair and say 1000 bucks since not every pc gamer knows how to build systems (which saves money)

comp- 1000

22 inch gaming monitor - 250

3rd year vid card update - 180 (this is a avaerage price of a mid end vid card but for note mid range does range from 150 -250 dependign on where you ger your card)

possible ram upgrade 40

total - 1470 US dollars

Note could say you built yoru own system to save cash and then got abetter vid card , but hoenstly numbers still come ratehr close, for that matter some gamers get only 42 inch and higher sized tv's which puts the cost of console gaming vs pc gaming neck and neck
i didtn bother figureing in 5.1 /7.1 surround systems into this cost chart becasue it woudl make litle differnece home theatre spekaers adn pc comptuer speaker cost are practially teh same so again would have made no diference on this argument so left speakers out of figures.

point is you are wrong and your friends are total douches and gamign is expensive on any platform these days regardless you wont see folks you met at the well fair office going home to consoles or pcs as either wil require atleast at least a minimum wage job and even then only when you get a tax return such as the case of when i bult this comp im on now (and game on pefectly even runs crysis fairly well)


oh and one more thing !

If adn when a pc breaks i can fix it myself with out breaking the various component's warrenties ! and i have NO down time waiting for the mail system, just the down time it takes me to fix the issue should an issue arrive (which rarely ever happens, if at all)

cant say that for a console

 

[dieseldre2k]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]you must be rich then or have rich parents then man. everyone knows when you buy a PC for gaming every couple months you will have to keep pouring money into upgrading your PC to play current games at the time. especially with graphic cards[/citation]
u act like we get nothing in return for our money. every purchase gets us better graphic. its the equivalent of sony releasing PS3/4/5, but we get the advantage by having graphics updated more often than every 3-5 years.

but for the "poorer" ppl (such as u imply to be), nobody is forcing u to buy the new PS3 and nobody is forcing us to buy the newer video cards. and in a year or so i bet the newest PC video games will look better on medium/low with our old cards than the PS3's max (if they dont look better already).

 

[dieseldre2k]

excuse the typos. we really need an edit button...

 

[Guest]

I wouldn't mind only paying for new games if the games cost say at $29.99 instead of at 59.99. I had no idea game companies didn't pull in any revenue from used games. I thought they at least got a 15 to 20% cut of the used sale. This could be something else game companies could look into. I think that ideas such as endings you have to download and/or buy is ludicrous. Not everyone has an internet connection, and not everyone that has an internet connection has it connected to their consoles. Just something to think about.

 

[mdillenbeck]

"One small step for corporate profits... one GIANT leap for eWaste in our landfills"

Thanks Nintendo - set a disastrous trend for others to follow by eliminating a primary method of recycling.

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, but this is starting to go too far. A publisher makes money when a game is sold new, just like say a car maker makes money when a new car is sold. GameStop/EB Games are basically the used car dealers out there, and the car maker doesn't get any money when a used car is sold so why should a publisher? Wah wah wah, I want more money, EVERYONE wants more money for what they do, thats the way it works.

But if Car manufactures started saying that you buy the car, and if you want to be able to go over 40 mph in the car then it's going to cost extra people won't buy those cars. I don't care how "Critically Acclaimed" or "Best Game Ever" a game is, what we're talking about here is entertainment pure and simple and when publishers start doing what Nintendo is trying to pull here the entertainment value drops.

Publishers will keep trying to take as much money out of our pockets as they can just like the gas companies did and what happened? After it hit a certain point people actually started chaning their driving habbits and stopped driving unless they needed to, and people will sooner or later stop getting the games and systems that cause this kind of pain. There ARE other things to do other than playing games you know.

 

[mtyermom]

I truly hope that Nintendo receives a class action suit because of this and that it sets a precedent that consumers will not stand for this kind of 'shake down' corporate greed.