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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TH3_GUITAR_H3R0Posted:
**** Microsoft. I'm calling an attempt to Monopolize the used video game industry.
IntPosted:
Hmm, I don't really care about xbox anymore I'm going to be moving to the PC sides of thing.
HarryWilliamJohnsonPosted:
BBC This Is Why I Hate Microsoft All They Care About Is Money Not The Customer
What are you on about? There talking about the publishers getting a cut...
IlIuminatiPosted:
Human so the publishers get more money for the same game? unfair really...
Its a good thing...
OrigamoPosted:
It's good that the publishers will get a cut now, but bad for the businesses like Gamestop.
SeedPosted:
GnasherShotgunBBC This Is Why I Hate Microsoft All They Care About Is Money Not The Customer
You will still buy it stop complaining
I was thinking the same thing unless your against this system I wouldn't complain about it
ModLuv4YaPosted:
All this would do is raise the price of the used games, so us gamers would be the one to pay in the end, which sucks, when you think about the fact that the game makers and MS already made $60 bucks off of the sale of the game as new, plus DLC's, etc. income, and if you really think about the fact that the plastic DVD/BR is only worth about 50 cents at most to make. GREED IS BAD!
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