Report: Publishers to receive cut of Xbox One pre-owned sales
A customer walks into a reseller with a previously purchased game disc. This can only be done at retailers that, according to MCV, have "agreed to Microsoft's [terms and conditions] and more importantly integrated Microsoft's cloud-based Azure pre-owned system into its own." The game disc, having been registered in the system, now wipes the license use from the previous owner's account so that the installed game on their Xbox One can no longer be accessed.
Here's the delicate part: the publisher and Microsoft will now receive a cut from the sale. Previously, a company like GameStop pocketed 100 percent of the used game sale, now ConsoleDeals.co.uk is reporting it could be significantly less if Microsoft has oversight of the market. The pre-owned market would go on, but its glorious margins for retailers would be destroyed. Meanwhile, publishers would finally get what they've always dreamed of: a piece of that pie.
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/24/report-publishers-to-receive-cut-of-xbox-one-pre-owned-sales/
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Soldier_Posted:
-Karma-Cougar This will screw over gamestop that is for sure.
im glad ! the amount they offer for your games are unbelievable. as low as $5 for a game that has only been out for less than a year
Exactly lol they completely rip you off.
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Cougar This will screw over gamestop that is for sure.
im glad ! the amount they offer for your games are unbelievable. as low as $5 for a game that has only been out for less than a year
-Karma-Posted:
TheOGIrishxXopticsXxHuman so the publishers get more money for the same game? unfair really...
no actually they get less, if you would spend atleast 5 seconds thinking about that you would see why. One game - one person..with used games its 1 Game - 2-5 people
How would the publisher receive less money? Basically it'd be Sales of original copy plus the percent of the used copy sales. Before there was no used copy percentage. So before calling out on someones ignorance make sure you're right.
cause only 1 person has to pay the retail $60 then everybody else only pays the fee instead of $60
TheOGIrishPosted:
xXopticsXxHuman so the publishers get more money for the same game? unfair really...
no actually they get less, if you would spend atleast 5 seconds thinking about that you would see why. One game - one person..with used games its 1 Game - 2-5 people
How would the publisher receive less money? Basically it'd be Sales of original copy plus the percent of the used copy sales. Before there was no used copy percentage. So before calling out on someones ignorance make sure you're right.
VoyboyPosted:
Human so the publishers get more money for the same game? unfair really...
no actually they get less, if you would spend atleast 5 seconds thinking about that you would see why. One game - one person..with used games its 1 Game - 2-5 people
VoyboyPosted:
TH3_GUITAR_H3R0 **** Microsoft. I'm calling an attempt to Monopolize the used video game industry.
oh my god, first people cry over online passes and then when a solution comes, they cry about that too. Just accept it, this doesn't affect you in any way except by continuing the used game trade which a lot of you whine about. Nobody likes Gamestop so who cares if they get screwed over.
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