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I’m going to be attending the Game Developer’s Conference out in San Fransisco from the 25th to the 27th. I’m planning on taking pictures, and checking out lots of things. Which either means me writing up a daily overview of what I saw/did, or doing an overview coverage of the whole thing when I get back. I’d like to do the daily thing, but I have a feeling the overview afterwards is more likely to happen.
Anyway stay tuned.
Tags: GameStop, industry, retail, used, video games
With Amazon and Toys R Us muscling in on GameStop’s almost monopoly of buying back videogames, and selling used copies, the discussion of used games has popped up in a lot of the podcasts I listen to again. Now I’m not going to say that it’s not fair that video game developers/publishers don’t get a cut from these sales, because it is fair. Which is to say this is not a industry vs. retailer issue, but rather a secondary market/right of first sale issue for consumers.