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Dev: Used game sales are 'destructive' to industry
Whenever you buy a pre-owned game, at least one developer cringes.
In a GamesIndustry.biz interview published this week, Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens said that the sale of pre-owned games in retail outlets around the world is hurting the video game industry and that a solution is needed sooner rather than later.
"Pre-owned isn't actually new--in 1981 there was Buy and Try, and that type of stuff," Cousens told the gaming publication. "The difference was that it wasn't a significant percentage of the market, and it was never promoted as aggressively through the retail community … Read more
