people selling games off on ebay

[Mike Abberton]

As the games age and new computers and operating systems come out, the likelihood that you will accumulate games that you can't play anymore.

In particular, with each major iteration of OS (Win98 to WinXP to Vista), a few games drop out of the mix. Not everyone has the room or the desire to keep an old machine around to play old games, and not everyone has the desire or technical savvy to tweak OS settings or install dual-boot configurations just to play old games, either.

Those could be driving at least some of the turnover in games.