"A recent Kotaku post cites "one reliable industry source" to suggest that the still-unannounced successor to Microsoft's Xbox 360 will somehow prevent used games from being played on the system. The idea remains an unconfirmed rumor, of course, but it's something that members of the game industry have floated repeatedly in the past. It's also a move that would likely find hefty support from publishers looking for a way to stop what they see as erosion of their profits thanks to used games (the reality is a bit more complicated than that, but we won't rehash that old argument here).

If you buy used games you are cheating the publisher out of money says THQ. In the past people could share and sell this type of thing, but it seems like each day that moves on from here we are losing more and more rights. Not that I condone the Pirating of games, but if you can't afford retail and they don't want you to buy used or pre-owned, then I guess that leaves a lot of people with few options.