More like "users of modified save files and custom firmware that managed to get their consoles banned" may affect second hand console sales.

If you buy a used ps3 (or whatever console) , regardless of hacks , ban and what not , without even checking if everything works including online , then you are an idiot and conned yourself .

What were you going to do , even without the existence of cw and hacks , if , say the built in lan and wireless stopped working and never checked before buying it ?
And no you wouldnt have fixed it (unless bought in store ) , you werent even bright enough to check it in the first place .

Are you people smoking crack?
The console should be checked before it even goes for sale, its not my job as a customer to check if the used console works or is banned, thats the retailers job.

Is it unreasonable that people get what theyre suposedly paying for?
No, i dont think it is.

all you hackers really pushed Sony to the wall , now its payback time

Simple solution: Don't buy used consoles.

Even before the PS3 was hacked, it was a risk to buy a used PS3 because you don't know if it was a YLOD-resurrected console that someone sloppily dissected and fixed temporarily, only to YLOD again after a few weeks/months of use.

These are the reasons I don't trust used videogame consoles, and try to avoid buying them as much as I can, unless it's really, really cheap, or an officially refurbished item. There's an element of risk to buying ANY previously owned product, be it software or hardware.

With all the games coming out soon, who's honestly going to buy Black Ops for the PS3 this year.

I don't think sony mind you buying new consoles from them instead of seconds hand ones.....anyway this is another thing you can blame hackers for, before they messed with sony you didnt have to worry about this sort of stuff, and you could have another os

lol f**k the cheaters and hackers.
wow..... I was retired CODBO on yesterday, because I finished all of prestiges.

Should of banned the whole console so places like gamestop can easily check if the console is banned.

Companies have no obligations towards second hand goods. People are stupid to buy used systems in the first place. The majority of the systems that get traded in at Gamestop have some form of problem to begin with.

Wonder if the price of a used PS3 will go down. I'll happily buy a PS3 for $10 less if it can't play BO.

The Xbox division has not listened to the customer since the 360 days. Ever since Kinect, Microsoft has been about selling us what they want and trying to tell us it’s what we want rather than actually selling us what we are asking for.

Microsoft does have a history of running things into the ground simply because they don't innovate or give products breathing space. I fully expect in the long term they will manage the same with Call of Duty and will kill it, just as they killed Halo and Forza and many other IP's over the years. This also extends to things like windows phones and such. They just were not competitive and did not listen to consumers.

Battlefield has beaten Call of Duty in players number not in sales maybe but in players

So far everything XBox touches die...

Same shit every year, give it a rest.

If they're going to do stuff like MW3 and BLOPS 7, at least make the campaign split-screen co-op. The way the maps are structured there's no reason not to, and it just adds value to a game that's short on it as it is.

Pretty sure BF6 will “pay the bills” just fine 🤪
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COD is turning into a sports game wash, rinse, repeat. At least Ubisoft stopped doing the yearly releases with AC and it worked.

Call of Duty can die only by killing itself. This can happen to any franchise and happened to Medal of Honor which ironically was created by the original team that made Call of Duty.