Research article: Used vs New games and customer interactions.

[Panda with issues...]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2189871

There's been a lot of noise recently about new vs used game sales, and how they affect the entire spectrum of the industry. Here's an actual research article on the subject.

 

[Ronin Storm]

There's been a lot of noise recently about new vs used game sales recently, and how they affect the entire spectrum of the industry. Here's an actual research article on the subject.

My brain isn't quite up to this just now, but their abstract suggests that they believe that used games sales increase the sales of new games by a noticeable margin. Interesting.

 

[BiG D]

Yeah, I'm not about to read the whole thing either, but I'm skeptical. My hunch is Japan is just a very different marketplace, I'm not sure it makes sense to apply the findings to the western game industry.