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they weren't happy about people reselling their games for 5 dollars each, when they could charge 75 dollars to each of those people instead

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Jokes on them if they think a significant portion of those sales will convert

Of course they will convert. Not all, but even a single person buying the game at full price is better than dozens of reselling transactions where Sony makes no money and is actually losing money as those people are not buying new games.

Not a fan of this of course, just saying it’s a calculated move they just copied from other industries. People complain and minority ends up following their principles, but similarly as with streaming, nearly everyone just has Spotify and that’s it.

> Not all, but even a single person buying the game at full price is better

I'm not so sure this is the case. It would massively reduce their market share which is one of the biggest reasons ps5 is relevant imo.

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