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The President of the ECA, Hal Halpin, in a recent interview stated his comments on where/how the 2nd hand games market will go.
Q: Second-hand games is another hot topic, and a big problem for publishers – how do you see that argument developing?
Hal Halpin: The way that that will stop is that going forward it will be more of a software license than a product purchase. So on the Playstation 4 or 5 you won’t have the rights that you do now in order to re-sell a product. That’s how the problem will be solved by the publishers – to the detriment of consumer rights – and there’s really not much, if anything, that can be done about it.
[/quote:e47a924946]Full interview here:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/the-eca-s-hal-halpinIn my opinion, this is not the best path forward…
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Well they were originally planning on doing that on the PS3.[/quote:f7781a13ae]
Well the capability was in the SDK from day to enforce this if they wanted to in the morning :)
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Why not just have a licensed resellers organization, just give the game companies (*cough* publishing *cough* – I doubt the developers would see anything) a percentage of second hand sales?
I would point out that it is technically illegal to sells second hand music and books, but the precedent has been there for years.
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