S&S News: Take-Two: "if Microsoft is taxing used games, we should get paid too"

It looks like if Microsoft will indeed put a tax on used games, Take-Two will want a piece of that action as well...


MCV reported a few days ago that Microsoft will be putting a tax on used games, and it was met with a general general disgust by Microsoft's consumers, but the Take-Two buy sees a silver lining in it. Here's how the system is said to work for consumers: when you take a game back to the shop it'll register as having been traded on Microsoft's system, which will automatically wipe the installed game files from your Xbox One hard drive. Microsoft has refused to discuss any of this, naturally, stating that its pre-owned policy is still being finalised.

"There's no question that if Microsoft has figured out a way to tax used games, then we should get paid, too," Zelnick told audiences at the Cowen Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference, via Gamespot. "It's hard to imagine why they should and we shouldn't."

"Our view about used games has been, as opposed to whining or figuring out ways to punish the consumer for buying used games, we've figured out we better delight the consumer," he said. "Let's push up our quality, which you've seen in our Metacritic scores, and then let's make sure to give people DLC, often free, three or four weeks out - which is the time you're at risk for them trading in their game."

I'm not sure if this will change your opinion on the used games debacle, I just hope Sony is listening closely to their consumers.