A recent study has shown an increase in gamers buying used games, and/or selling their recently purchased new games back only to use that cash to buy other games. It's as if they are young Wall Street stock brokers, getting more bang for the buck as a whopping 49 million gamers in the United States use this cycle to get ahold of more games. Wouldn't it just be easier to rent?

Anyways, Gamestop's the leading candidate for where the buy/sell games market goes down, domininating other retailers at 61%. The study by OTX also examines what gamers use to consider keeping a game or selling it back, even coming up with a recent "keeper list" (including CoD4, The Orange Box, etc.), the age range of buyers/sellers of new and used games, gender difference, predictions for the year 2008...OTX have really done their homework here.