I do wonder how that'll pan out for them. Back when I worked in GameStop (yuck, to pay my way through university), there was obviously a huge push to get people to trade their old games in, and they did.

But they'd usually trade in towards new releases. If the company would say to Remedy "each store has a thousand (just making a number up here) copies of Alan Wake 2 on preorder and paid off", Remedy ain't gonna give a shit that someone traded in their old copy of Control that was gathering dust on a shelf towards the new game.

So by removing the second-hand market entirely (which might I add usually consists of older games that are well past their sales peak anyways), you're not just removing consumers' buying power for new games, you're also making them much less likely to take risks because if they pay 70 bucks for a dud, then they're stuck with it.