This was kind of the idea of the original Xbox One plans before the "muh used games" backlash and own by Sony with that handoff video.
You could sell your digital license to other users, cutting out the GameStop middleman. It's even better than your proposal because it wouldn't be a low 10% return it would be whatever your market value is
It's really amazing how far ahead of the game MS was with their original Xbox One plans. Like literally 10 years ahead. They were giving people almost all the benefits of physical copies - resale, retail sales and the pricing competition that comes with it, lending games, having shiny cases on your shelf - while also giving you the benefits of digital (and without the downside of digital of having to download 100gb games). It was revolutionary and I was so excited because it meant you could buy digital at retail and not be restricted to the Xbox Store digital prices.
Unfortunately we all know how that ended, and now almost 10 years later we're pushing 90% digital game sales across the board, with zero pricing competition so everyone paying full price and not being able to re-sell or loan games. It's hilarious because MS were trying to be as consumer friendly as you can possibly imagine with digital games, yet the same people that were against it are now buying all their games digitally and are worse off than they would have been.
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Thanks luddites.
The uproar was because Don Mattrick's team tried to block the sale of
physical copies of used games once a disc is used and had a 24-hour periodical check for ownership of the console, mandatory, for checking those physical games which were installed to the HDD. Not
digital ones. I mean not the ones
purchased digitally.
Digitally purchased or code-redeemed licenses were already tied to the account/gamertag, from the 360 days, to even now. It's the same system. The concept of selling digital licenses didn't exist on consoles before (or even now).
If it were a holy idea of Microsoft wanting to grant consumer rights, why didn't they just do it for digital and let physical be as it already was? The plan even had Microsoft and the third party publisher getting a split for physical, so after the backlash, why not just do for digital? They wouldn't. Physical sales were 90% at that time.
Don Mattrick wanted that sweet used game pie that GameStop eats everyday and cut them off altogether.
GameStop started promoting PS4 and mocking Xbox One at their local store billboards and their employees were adviced to sell only Playstations and Nintendo consoles to customers, told to even spread negativity around Xbox One. There were years where GameStop's annual gross revenue would have used game sales being half of it, in billions of dollars. It's a huge part of their business, like what lootboxes are to EA in Fifa.
Sony used this as the perfect opportunity to bring in even more bad PR by announcing that the PS4 won't have all this DRM shit for physical games and put that uses games instruction satirical video which exploded on the internet.
This, along with forced Kinect and being $100 more expensive, killed Xbox One before it even launched, or so we thought until Phil Spencer took over.
A Microsoft console, 360, that made history by splitting the installed base of the best selling console of all-time, PS2, literally in half, had it's successor in shambles, thanks to corporate greed.
The same corporate greed that let Sony to conveniently slip in paid online multiplayer, which was free till PS3 and Vita, when everyone were singing praises how Sony saved used games.
No company is our friend.
