Unfortunately you are completely wrong. When you purchase a NEW game at full retail price the store selling it makes very little money, average margin is 3-4%. Game stores survive on trade in and selling pre-owned, as this is where a store can make a profit. In fact the lack of revenue from new digital media has seen the closure of major stores like virgin, Zavvi and HMV in the uk, unable to compete with super stores and amazon who can actually sell games/DVDs at a loss since they make money elsewhere. The point I'm making is that if next gen do block or lessen the amount of pre-owned purchased we could see more high street stores disappear. What game stores need to do (and is in fact coming into place in a certain uk game retailer) is pay a royalty fee to the developer for each pre-owned title sold, and studios like EA need to allow stores to take make a bit more money off new games.
The pinnacle of PC gaming in 2005 was call of duty 2 and half life 2. Both great, but graphically rubbish by today's standards. This would of never run on a rig from back then unless you spent mental amounts of money, even then it probably would of looked an played terrible.
Gearbox need to stop picking up games that have been through development Hell for the last ten years and finishing them off, after Duke Nukem and this they are going to get a bad rep. Gearbox just build something from the ground up like Borderlands!
I work for GAME (uk) and its true that we make a good percentage of our profit from used game sales but without them the store wouldn't exist. Even selling new releases at full retail price we only make a tiny margin (not enough for the company to run). With the loss of HMV, Zavvi, Virgin megastores etc etc the only place you could get games is supermarkets if used games got blocked. Because asda/tesco can afford to buy products an sell them at a loss.
I know haters are gonna hate, an this game is still a long way off, but I can't really see why people are loving this announcement trailer, sure it's great that Chris Roberts is coming back to PC, but the trailer itself is a fairly generic video of some spaceships flying about not doing a whole lot, an in it's current state this is NOT in any way pushing the limits of the platform, I'm sure it will look fantastic in two years, but this is just a pre-rendered video trailer, not in game, so stop saying OMG there is frame rate issues with the video cos it requires super computers that aren't available yet! Anyway, hope it turns out great, but I think people are already going overboard cos of the whole 'it's going to test the limits of the platform' thing.
God, I knew before I clicked on this video there would be loads of fan boys arguing! The cross platform idea came from portal 2 as pc & playstation could play together, and that worked just fine! Granted cs does require a much greater level of accuracy, but you can use a keyboard and mouse on the playstation (that's what the last section of this video is) so I recon they should have kept it in the game.
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