Apparently when Sony execs and devs are arrogant, it's a "breath of fresh air" to their lackeys, shills, marketers, "art" lovers, "art" makers, and that multitude of "new customers" that "expanded the industry" and know/understand what classic gaming is because their first console was the original PlayStation.
"Jaffe: I think itâ€™s pretty rude to resell a game I worked on with 0% degradation between used and new and not cut me in on the deal."
On the topic of God of Secondary Transactions Revenue, the system is fair. Customer A buys a game product from the typical industry institution that runs all the way from the game developer to the retailer at some initial asking price, ie. the "original copy." Later on, Customer A comes to the conclusion that the game product isn't VALUABLE enough to continue keeping it, so off it goes into the process of used game selling (direct, indirect, whatever). Then Customer B snatches it up. Should Jaffe get a piece of that sale? HELL NAW! That silly game disc fell out of the institutional loop once Customer A gave it up. Customer B isn't getting something from Jaffe Game Programming Friends anymore, it's now a disc Customer A is willing to give up. If Jaffe is supposed to "make more money," he's supposed to make games that customers VALUE and therefore KEEP, and at the same time attracts BRAND NEW CUSTOMERS, because a "kept" game is surely not a "used" game that's available for resale. A product that's valued, kept, and unavailable used can seem more attractive to those potential "new" customers (neverminding those dedicated deal-seekers). A product with strong value won't be characterized by Customer B taking the place of Customer A to be "the Customer" at the given time ("one product unit, one active customer" idea). So devs, shutup and make better products, products worth keeping.
I've never heard Miyamoto or Iwata demand a cut of used sales. They probably practice an unorthodox business strategy called "common sense," which might not be the easiest thing to master or execute with favorable results everytime, since it's application is pretty rare in the world in the first place. Common sense didn't say "jam so much stuff into one machine, making it $600 before tax. People will get it, regardless, surpassing the market performance of the previous machine." Man, that's like, arrogant.