No Pre-Owned PS3 Sales
It’s Games Radar so who knows how accurate this is, but still, that would suck a lot. To some degree, I understand the games publisher’s line here - there is no other entertainment medium (DVD, books, music, whatever) that you can buy second hand, from the same place you buy it new, mere days after release. But at the same time stopping people selling second hand games at all is certainly a draconian step too far. It’s one thing for Valve to stop people selling on Half Life 2 using Steam, an entire platform holder doing it would surely cause a much bigger fuss and likely harm their reputation, something Sony is increasingly short on right now.
In related news, Famitsu readers in Japan are more hyped for the Wii than the PS3. News item half way down this page, translation here. They’ve got enough PlayStation brand strength to survive but week by week I’m increasingly convinced Nintendo and Microsoft are going to take major share from Sony. Aside from the lovely little truth that no one has dominated three generations in a row, they’re coming across as so complacent and cocky recently.
June 3rd, 2006 at 9:36 pm
like, helloooo! update the blog already.
June 4th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Real life (mainly work) has yet again been taking up most of my time. While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I run this blog in my free time with my own money. In other words, it is not a right, contrary to what you seem to imply.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Wow, easy tiger! Anyway, about the post- “there is no other entertainment medium (DVD, books, music, whatever)that you can buy second hand, from the same place you buy it new, mere days after release.” Surely amazon sells all those things second hand pretty much straight away as well as games? Think you’re right about sony pissing away their popularity though, since this time last year I’ve given up on ever owning a PS3. (PS£? Typed by accident but strangely accurate, the xbox fanboy equivalent of M$ i suppose…)
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