Not sure if this is 100% correct but my dude who knows more about games then me just sent me this.
Another blow to Sony fans
http://www.neogaf.com/index.php?option=com_content...
here is a nice summary
The idea is this:
1) You buy a game. Sony makes money.
2) You sell a game to GameStop right now, and they give you some money, spendable at GameStop, or if you choose, cash. You make money.
3) GameStop sells that game to somebody else. GameStop makes money.
Sony essentially is replacing step 2 and 3 here with one nice little condensed step.
2b) You sell a game to a friend. Your friend does not pay you in cash. He puts the game in his system, and the system checks for authorization. If you have authorized the sale, your friend pays a used game price (to Sony) of which you recieve a percentage in entitlement points (spendable only to Sony). Sony makes money x 2.
so when you buy a new game and play it, it gets registrated to you.
You sell it to new owner(he gives you cash, or nothing, that's your deal) but he has to pay a small fee to Sony to be able to play the game(that fee gets distributed three ways, a bit to you, a bit to game publisher/developer and a bit to Sony).
And so forth the chain goes.
If this is true then sony just killed there own product. If Game stores arnt going to make money offa used games for the ps3 then there gonna push people towards buying 360s so they can make money. Very dumb approach from a business standpoint.