More bandwagon jumping
Dec. 15th, 2005 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42Why can't any of the industries to which I give so much of my money ever find a GOOD bandwagon to jump on? I despair.
Just in from Gamesville. Scroll down past the XBox 360 story and you will see this: "Pre-owned games threaten games industry?"
Apparently some nice people in the video games industry have worked out that instead of making billions and billions and billions of dollars, they are only making billions and billions of dollars, and that sales of "pre-owned" (i.e. "used") video games are somehow to blame for this.
I do like the pithy closing remark that "... anyway, the games industry only has itself to blame. When one version of FIFA Soccer is virtually indistinguishable from the next, where's the imperative to buy the new one?"
Just in from Gamesville. Scroll down past the XBox 360 story and you will see this: "Pre-owned games threaten games industry?"
Apparently some nice people in the video games industry have worked out that instead of making billions and billions and billions of dollars, they are only making billions and billions of dollars, and that sales of "pre-owned" (i.e. "used") video games are somehow to blame for this.
I do like the pithy closing remark that "... anyway, the games industry only has itself to blame. When one version of FIFA Soccer is virtually indistinguishable from the next, where's the imperative to buy the new one?"
