Nice read, but you're just plain wrong when you say that games will get cheaper without the used market. When you buy their console, you are their captive audience. Why would they reduce the base prices of their games just because you can't trade them in anymore?
It's not going to matter to them that the premium you once paid to effectively remunerate them for future resales of your used copy is no longer necessary. Unless they are MADE to reduce their prices after closing the used market with their next consoles, they JUST WON'T. And it really is as simple as that.
Ethics won't even come into it. Prices will not drop unless sales significantly decrease. And sales won't decrease, because the fact of the matter is that no matter how many swear blind that they wouldn't submit, no matter how many swear blind that they couldn't possibly afford it... People would complain a lot, and then do what they always do no matter how poor they are: they'll find the money for their entertainment, cutting corners wherever they have to.
"The destitute can still drink"
I'll bet anything you like. When the used market is crushed on consoles (next gen), base prices for games will stay the same or go up. AND they won't be more complete. You'll still have masses of DLC, season passes, all that noise.
It's not going to matter to them that the premium you once paid to effectively remunerate them for future resales of your used copy is no longer necessary. Unless they are MADE to reduce their prices after closing the used market with their next consoles, they JUST WON'T. And it really is as simple as that.
Ethics won't even come into it. Prices will not drop unless sales significantly decrease. And sales won't decrease, because the fact of the matter is that no matter how many swear blind that they wouldn't submit, no matter how many swear blind that they couldn't possibly afford it... People would complain a lot, and then do what they always do no matter how poor they are: they'll find the money for their entertainment, cutting corners wherever they have to.
"The destitute can still drink"
I'll bet anything you like. When the used market is crushed on consoles (next gen), base prices for games will stay the same or go up. AND they won't be more complete. You'll still have masses of DLC, season passes, all that noise.