The games industry loves Capitalism, but starts pissing and moaning when it comes back on them. Again, this goes back to the argument that beyond videogames, everything has residual value, unless it’s food or diapers … but hell, even someone will take used diapers off your hands if you use the Internet. Now, one of the first things I’ve learned from my American adventures is that Gamestop’s trade-in rates are abysmal (they have nothing on Gamestation) but I do fully agree. “Anything that limits the transferability of a game from consumer to a friend of theirs, to selling it on eBay, to exchanging it and trading it with one of their friends, or selling it back to GameStop – I think is a bone of contention with the consumer.”ĭeMatteo states that the consumer is “trained” to see residual value in videogames, and that nowadays more than ever, such value needs to exist.
“I think it creates contention not only for us, yes, but also for the consumer,” claims CEO Dan DeMatteo.
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