While video games as a whole are doing well, the prices of used games at the retail level dropped by a considerable amount, although you wouldn’t know it browsing the local Gamestop. In part, this can be be pinned directly on the sucktastic economy since used games don’t have the same marketing and appeal as brand new titles. Also, those new titles of late have been really good, and there’s only so much cash in the cookie jar to blow on digital heroin.

Check out the details in this Gamasutra article here.