Vinci said:
I'm not so sure if it's outright laziness, or the potential issues that would arise from such a scenario. I could easily see problems with ironing out the specifics of what profit goes where and to whom. For example, Activision and EA - quite rightly - could make the argument that people come to the proposed outlet, more often than not, looking for their products. Thus, any purchase of another 3rd party's title would be as a direct result of Activision and EA's wares luring people into the store and giving that other company's title the chance to be seen and impulsively purchased. At which point, they could argue that they deserve a portion of the profit even though it wasn't their game sold.
And that's when the whole dream sort of breaks down.
I was more thinking of something along the lines of an Apple store where they're only dealing in anything Apple.
I mean Nintendo already have a store in New York dealing with anything they licence I believe.
Then again they would have to redo their packaging to make sure that people don't sell them product they can't sell (you know like making the box blue for Sega and the likes).
Or they could have a deal with a local gamestop that would rebuy their non EA branded stuffs (and with a markdown for all things that are not EA you try to sell them so as to cover the expense of having to deal with GS and all).
But yeah it's impossible for anything but the biggest publishers,STILL when I see Ubisoft and EA fucking whinning because their sales get eaten by GAME or Gamestop.....
I mean even Fnac deal in used games now, and they're like so far from dealing with anything used that it's really surprising.
At least they didn't blame the loss of sales from new game to piracy or something crappy like that, they found a way to deal with it that is not utterly anti-consumer like publisher always do.
Th emore I think about it, the more I feel that Nintendo have done less anti consumer stuffs than all the other publisher => I don't feel like having to justify to any length whether or not I buy from them...you could say that's the concept of good will.
I mean I saw the Modern Warfare on Wii, and I was seeking a competent Wii fps but after all the crap I went through with ATVI games and the more than condescending tone of IW toward their general consumers I simply decided against (that and 60 bucks? really? 10 bucks more for a 2 yo game than for what I'll pay for the latest Metroid?)
Seriously I'd probably buy more games if I knew I could send it back to the makers if I was unhappy with it.
Imoving out of an appartment into another and I was surprised to see how much Wii games I had, all due to the fact that they're actually way cheap.
I mean I fully expected to pay 60 bucks for Metroid Prime 3 like I did for MP2, well no they decided against.
Again I bought the chronicles games new because they were so much cheaper than the average new game!
There's like 5 bucks difference between the new DSC and a DS game!
I don't evenn if I paid Picross 3D cheaper than the latest Silent hill anymore! (all for the price of Heavy Rain btw).
If anything there's a point to be made that by making games slightly cheaper they could get so much more sales :-/