GAME has told VideoGamer.com that it is "constantly evolving" its business and will "continue to provide a relevant and leading proposition" for consumers, regardless of whether next-generation consoles restrict the use of second-hand software.
"As part of the integration of GAME, we will be phasing out the trade-in, pre-owned and Game Elite offerings in the UK over the coming months," a spokesperson for the chain's owner Frasers Group told BBC News"
Seems like a blizzar move here. It's the second hand market they thrived upon.
If I'm not mistaken game are owned by the same company who own GameStop in the US?
Whaaaa
Gamestation is gone
Grainger Games is gone
CEX is shit
Jesus. The only reason we use GAME is because there’s nobody else and they get away with this shit.
eBay does well on second hand games, always works for me, always get more than I would have done trade in .
which if effectively a double con, as with a trade in you are normally offered a fair market price, on the reasoning, you are in-affect promising to buy the future product form the same retailer.
Were people even doing this these days? They offer awful amounts. The best way is to ebay or gumtree. Day ones games are generally getting 90% of my money back after I'm done with them
A high street store can not compete with online. Game prices are £59.99 for a new release. Go with many of the online stores and those games are £44.99-49.99 for day one.
The fact game charge you £5 more to collect in-store compared to their own online shop is a joke. The excuse was on the lines "it's our stocking fee."
I stopped using game around 5 or more years back. I'd pop in looking for a real bargain, but rarely find anything.
I'm not surprised they're going out of business, they could not get with the times and they definitely could not compete with online when greed was the forefront.
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It will be interesting how stores like Gamestop will deal with no used games. Even their new games are used, as employees take them home to play with them.
"If true, the decision to block pre-owned games could have big repercussions for GAME and other businesses built around the sale of second-hand games software." (From the article)
If (and I mean big IF) Sony/Microsoft blocks used games, one suggestion would be to sell vintage games used like some other businesses do, and still maintain profit. From a customer standpoint just wait till games go bargin-bin then pick em up, that way if you don't like the game the most you spent was $20 which is a dinner and/or a movie.
Destination Playstation is the Monday after the big reveal. It is a private event for Sony to talk with retailers and gauge interest for retail space in the shop. With the PS4 being announced where will be a lot to talk about and I am sure this question will come up.
Aren't they pretty much all but dead as a retail store,so why it matter.
I they do block 2nd hand games it could kill the ps4 and the next xbox, I know lots of ppl that trade in their old games so they can buy new release games, if they can't do this then they won't buy games, so how many sales will publishers and devs lose when ppl can't trade in old games to buy their new games my guess is who knows but im sure it would affect huge amount of sales, and because of this I would not be surprised if the next gen fails and ppl move over to gameing on tablets and ipads.