Entries in 'pre-owned' (185)
GameStop: Publishers are starting to accept pre-owned
After a year spent adding new ways to monetise game trade-ins, publishers have learned to accept second-hand sales.
HMV considering online pre-owned move
HMV wants to be the next retailer to offer pre-owned games online following Amazon UK’s entry into the market.
Pre-owned claims 25% of GAME’s sales
Retailer GAME has stated that second-hand will account for 25 per cent of its sales this financial year.
Pre-owned boom aids Total Disc Repair
The huge growth in the second-hand market has seen a surge in sales for disc repair specialists.
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‘Publishers right in pre-owned fight’
LoveFilm has applauded publishers’ efforts to encourage new sales with the rise of second user charges.
GAME boosts hardware trade-in deals
Both GAME and Gamestation are offering customers and extra 20 per cent on their normal trade-in price for anyone who hands over their old hardware between today (November 26th) and ...
Why some gamers don’t like pre-owned
A study by US analyst Cowen & Company has said that fear of buying a scratched disk, missing out on the in-game manual or simply the urge to own new ...
AC Brotherhood price roundup
The latest release in the Assassin’s Creed saga – which is doing brilliantly with critics – has sparked off yet another price war on the UK High Street.
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Pre-owned claims 50% of GameStop profit
GameStop has revealed that sales of pre-owned game products accounted for 47.4 per cent of the company’s profit for the three months ending October 2010.
Gran Turismo 5 for £4.99
Entertainment retailer HMV is to sell Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 for just £4.99 next week to any customer happy to trade-in a copy of Codemasters’ F1 2010 for PS3.
Pre-owned stand off is ‘ridiculous’
Publishers and retailers must get together and figure out a way of working together to tackle the dual problem of pre-owned and digital retail, Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has stated.
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Asda: Publishers understand need for pre-owned
Andrew Thompson, the head of games at supermarket Asda, has told MCV that increasing competition in the games sector forced it to adopt a pre-owned games strategy.
Kotick criticises EA’s Project $10
The cash-strapped core gamer has found an unexpected ally in the rally against Project $10 – Activision’s Bobby Kotick.
Zelnick: Don’t punish pre-owned buyers
The recent trend for including DLC codes in new copies of games and charging those who buy the game pre-owned is poorly targeted, according to Take-Two chairman (and in ...
Tesco trade-in plans go national
Supermarket behemoth Tesco has now rolled out its pre-owned games service to all of its Extra stores.
That’s nearly 200 shops across the UK.
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Ceasefire on Q4 price wars...
Anger over trade-ins is on the rise again, as retailers turn to pre-owned to drive sales this Christmas.
Harmonix on DLC codes and pre-owned
Music game studio Harmonix has joined the second-hand nay-sayers, dubbing the sector ‘a serious problem for all publishers’.
Asda defends trade-in offer
Retail behemoth Asda says it had to start selling used games in order to ‘protect its long-term games business.’
Black Ops for £4.97 at Asda
With just over 24 hours to go until retailers in the UK open their doors at midnight to welcome the arrival of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Asda has come ...
Tesco: Games can save environment
The environment has become a key concern for Tesco, and trade-ins help the retailer cut its carbon footprint.
Fable III gets new purchase incentives
Fable III has become the latest title to encourage gamers to buy new rather the pre-owned by offering exclusive DLC.
Asda slogan row for Green Man Gaming
Digital and retail have finally come to loggerheads… over a slogan.
New games claim just 59% of market
A preview of NPD’s upcoming Games Industry: Total Consumer Spend Report has revealed that boxed, new game releases now account for just 59 per cent of the total video games ...
GAME: ‘Pre-owned charges haven’t hurt us’
The wide-spread efforts by publishers to earn extra money from pre-owned games hasn’t dented GAME’s second-hand game business.
