[Urgent] Tell me how to get rid of these secondhand game “beggars”

Tell me.

Buying new just to sell it is the same thing, buddy.

As long as we don’t get rid of these secondhand beggars,
the prices of game consoles and software will just keep going up, right?

What do you mean “how”?
They should just abolish physical discs already.

What even is a “secondhand beggar”?

It’s simple: just make games that people don’t want to sell.

People only buy new because they know they can resell it later.

Don’t call your own core user base “beggars.”

You’re completely ignoring the benefits of the secondhand market,
and ironically, those “secondhand beggars” you’re talking about are the PlayStation user base themselves.

What is this… what even is this thread?

If that was the goal, they should’ve just gone digital-only without waiting for Sony to make a move.
Nobody can argue with that.

I’m against eliminating secondhand sales.
That said, if Sony wants to do it, they should go ahead.
I think the result will end up just like Xbox.

The reason people buy packages at full price on release day is because a secondhand market exists.

People seem to have this misconception that people who buy secondhand never buy new games.

Some idiot is making noise again, I see.

Secondhand is just time-shifted sharing. Are people who room-share “beggars” too?

PS had more active secondhand trading than Switch did,
so why is it suddenly treated as evil? You guys were all about “great value” and stuff.
PlayStation fans really are shallow and inconsistent.

Secondhand trading is a legitimate business transaction—it’s been 24 years since the Supreme Court ruling on this.
Calling it begging and demanding it be removed is just your personal opinion, and nobody has to agree with you.

No, no. Those “secondhand beggars” don’t even exist anymore.
It’s the “new-game-price-drop beggars” now. And they sell those to stores, right?
Stores buy them, put them on shelves… and then that used copy just sits there forever.
Get it?
And the thing is, even those discounted new games aren’t selling.

And all that’s left are the “free-to-play beggars” lol

Why is there a need to eliminate secondhand in the first place?
If you want to take the profit, come up with your own solution.

Is there anyone who has literally never used a secondhand store in their entire life?

And so, the “giant smartphone” crowd remains.

Fin

It just proves Nintendo was right.
They never dump their games for pennies, and even when they have sales, it’s only about 30% off, so they don’t devalue their IP.

Tell the people buying used cars

they’re beggars too.

Go punch them in the face.

Suddenly declaring the secondhand market evil… sounds just like them.

It’s about “digital secondhand sales.”
That’s what MS tried to do, got massive pushback for, and cancelled.

The problem with secondhand sales is that developers don’t get a cut.

If platformers handled digital secondhand sales, they could pay the developers from the transaction fees.

The mechanism is already possible today.

This way, even users without much money could buy games on day one.

Though, since the platformers would run it, you’d only get half back on a trade-in, and the resale price would probably be around 80% of retail.

If the software developers were running it, I’d get it, but it’s the hardware manufacturers doing it.

Actually, the environment to resell digital codes has existed for a while. The fact that nobody did it means that physical discs still have more advantages.

Does the current disc-less movement even have that much to do with secondhand games?
Did Sony ever say they were doing it to fight the secondhand market?
It’s more like “we aren’t making physical media anymore,” and this is just an inevitable side effect. I don’t think it’s the main goal.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to piracy sites.

Everything went downhill the moment people started defining “beating a game and reselling it immediately” as the ultimate “smart consumer move.”

Sorry, I’m a secondhand beggar.