I feel like if Microsoft does this, then the people who game the used sales system in order to save money on games will just play fewer games overall. That's why you can consider every pirated or used copy a lost sale, because a lot of the time it's from someone who would never pay the full $60 in the first place.
The other thing this kills is the rental industry. Nearly every console game I play these days is a rental from GameFly. If I'm pumped-as-shit for a game I'll pay the full $60, but that happens probably less than 10 times a year. In most cases if I just kinda like a game I'll get it for sub-$20 on a Steam sale.
Most big games just aren't worth $60, and I'm afraid that just about everything but the top blockbusters will see sales plummet under this kind of system.
Bigger budgets are part of the problem too. Budgets for retail console games have exploded faster than the size of the audience willing to buy those games, so almost everything that doesn't sell 5 million copies is a failure. I also hate the current console environment where every game is either $15 or $60 with no middle-budget games like you had during the PS2 era.
I can't say this without sounding like Boener or somebody, but publishers that aren't EA and Activision need to reign in spending, and be realistic about sales projections.
Any black guys here ever get their hair cut by a white barber? There is a place right down the street that I want to check out but I'm just a little nervous about their experience with black men. I'd rather not be their guinea pig.
I've had a Turkish barber and one that I think was from Mongolia (or probably just South Korea), and in my experience non-black barbers can maintain a skin fade on brothers but not much else.