This Day in Gaming, June 12th

via Kotaku


1998: Capcom, Konami, Namco, Sony, and Square file a lawsuit against a Tokyo game shop for selling used games. Having failed a campaign to make resale of games illegal, they now prefer to supervise the resale of games.

Because when you buy something, it's not yours to sell. And you should know that by now. On one hand, resellers are selling games for less than their new counterparts. Of course, this also means that these games once sold as new and profits were made. From the other perspective, resellers might be charging MORE than retail value for a title, in which case there is an easy way to fix that supply and demand structure...

Given the strong state of Japan's game shops, I'm assuming the big companies failed. But ask Ash. He knows everything about Japan since he lives there. Absolutely everything.