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On Winson Shuen's Why I love buying used games

"Folks like to go on about how buying the first game in a series will lead them to pay full price for the sequel if it's good, but they never consider that a developer's only means of guaging interest is through new copies sold. It has no way of knowing how many people bought their game on the aftermarket, so regardless of whether or not their game ended up circulating between tons of gamers when all was said and done, if it looks like it sold a pitiable amount of copies at retail, that sequel may never get made. So really, folks like that aren't doing anyone but themselves any favors by buying used, unless of course they're buying a used copy of a game in a well-established franchise, each installment of which tends to sell through the roof.

I dunno, I just feel like the topic goes a lot deeper than this article is willing to delve. Honestly, I feel like folks are going to do what they do, and there's no reason to justify it. It is what it is, and if it has any effect on the industry, it'll become apparent in due-time. I don't really need to read self-serving personal therapy sessions that exist solely to justify doing what you do, and if you're not really going to go into the topic with any real depth of insight, then that's really all it is in the end."

Monday, September 26, 2011

On Louis Garcia's How my friend proved that Super Mario World is the best SNES game

"I guess that your casual gamer friend is into Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island is cool, but I'm not sure why you think that's supposed to have any wider implications for the rest of us. You have to consider that tastes are incredibly subjective, and that there is the very real possibility that whether they consider themselves hardcore or not, certain gamers might not consider those two games their cup of tea even if they can appreciate that they're well made. I doubt that your friend's interest in them is going to change their mind about them if they didn't already like them.

This isn't a bad article by any stretch, but I just don't get how or why you came to the conclusion that you did. We like what we like, y'know? "

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

On Jonathan Schoen's Why third-party games will struggle on Nintendo's Wii U

"How Nintendo's next system might fare is going to depend heavily on what Sony and Microsoft choose to do with their next consoles, which are unknown quantities at this point. As is the Wii U, really. There's so much that's unknown at this point that it seems pretty premature to be calling doom and gloom.

All I can say at this point is that I'm intrigued, and that I'm eager to see what Nintendo makes of the thing. "

Monday, July 11, 2011