Used games have helped sony and microsoft. Not everyone has the pocketbook to buy new. They bought the system though, and that support, loyalty to a system also is what enables microsoft for instance to keep changing model numbers and getting those same customers to buy the newer consoles. As for online gaming, it would not have caught on as big if used games weren't able to play already. Sure people would play, they were, but not in the numbers of today. Their notion of charging us for that privelege now is ludicris, and anyone who thinks that way has been successfully brainwashed by these very companies that we gamers have built. What was wrong with going to a used game store and buying a games, helping out local economy, and going home to play, nothing but these companies figure another way to squeeze yet another dollar out of us. If I am not mistaken, I believe Sony likes to advertise and hold demostrations and announcements in these very stores, but now they want to cut them out of the loop. I love games, I love the new systems, but as time passes, I am getting tired of jumping through hoops to play any more, I thought they were supposed to do the jumping for my happiness. I am not as happy with them anymore, and I am losing it day by day, every time hear about their new scheme to screw me out of more money. Sony really only lasted because of the free online, if they didn't have that, they would've been doomed long ago, but now they have plus, once they have enough brain washed people there, they will shut down the free online game play. so you'll have to pay to play online and buy the online pass to do it. I wish I was making .001% of that profit. Remember, they employ developers for games and systems, but also business types to figure ways to make you pay. I say, take back the power, and set things right again. free online play, free play with used games, restore the love for our favorite games, and systems, and don't contaminate it all about profit. Just my opinion