I do not see it that way, because MS is taking a cut out of each used game sold, now Gamestop could raise the price of the used game to make a profit and offset MS cut but how many people are willing to pay such a price for a used game? I wouldn't pay for a used game that would be close to buying a new game, saving five bucks is not worth it for me. Gamestop is going to have to come up with a new scheme to deal with MS way of doing business and make some profit as well because again not too many people are going to buy into it.
Your idea that nobody would buy it off Ebay or Craiglist but from Gamestop would make Gamestop look like they have a monopoly and if there is no competition where's the savings going to come from? Gamestop will throw out a couple of bones here and there but that would be it.
If I buy a used game at Gamestop and it is current, you may only save five bucks and that is not a deal for me and I rather buy it brand new. The only way you will get a decent price if the game is some years old. I will not be affected by MS wanting extra money and that is if I buy their console. Gamestop should have seen this coming and sure they will take a hit on the profits but then again we have to wait on MS to see if all this speculation will come to bare fruit. Times has changed and this is only the beginning, glad I am also a PC gamer.
I rather wait for the Xbox to hit the stores and when someone actually buys one and see what it is capable of actually doing. As far as buying preowned I rarely buy them because you have to wait some years for the price to be low enough to buy one and some of the companies charge you for a online pass anyway and I avoid those. Also, price may be a factor if it is too high. I look at Xbox One like it is an all in one printer that has functions that makes it more than a printer and most of the devices are like Xbox including TVs which some are SMART tvs which can access the internet and do other tasks as well and if I can get Xbox one at a good price it is worth it to me. All it's shortcomings are not that bad. As far as the PS4 I will be doing the same too because I have yet seen a actual PS4 and all I hear is hype and both machines has almost the same specs. However, MS has one thing over PS4 it will use some of the Windows OS technology and Direct DX.
If the Glassbox engine cannot allow the maps to be any larger than what it is and cannot be tweaked to make it happen, then that engine to me is a weak engine. If larger Maps show up with paid DLC that would make EA/Maxis look like storytellers and we will be watching.
$350 is a good price point, Heck if I got to pay $500 for Xbox One, I will just put that money towards the new Nvidia 780 and the same goes for PS4 and play more on the PC.
I am not going out and rush to buy Xbox one or PS4, I rather wait to see how well both will perform before putting money down on any of them. They are both hyping their product and they may not even live up to the hype.
@arqe the problem with Xbox One you can't replace the hard drive if it malfunctions and may have to send it in. Whereas the older Xboxes you just slip it out or off and put on a new one and keep on trucking. Yes, you can hook up other drives to it but not everybody wants to do this even if the internal drive malfunctions. I like the Xbox One but this is one feature that I do not like.
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