Entries in 'pre-owned' (181)
Game Trading Technologies ramps up
The second hand games reseller believed to be behind Best Buy’s fresh tirade on the US pre-owned games market has filed an S-1 for common stock offering as it looks ...
Best Buy commits to pre-owned
Big box retail specialist Best Buy is to take the commitment it has shown to pre-owned games in the UK and roll-out a second hand games offer to all of ...
US: Pre-owned, digital grabs 1/3 of market
New research from US stats body The NPD Group claims that in 2009 US consumers spent a total of $4.5-4.75bn on pre-owned games, game rentals, subscriptions, digitally downloaded games, DLC ...
GAME offers Xbox Slim trade-in deals
UK retailer GAME doesn’t just see the Xbox 360 Slim as a chance to sell the console to a wider audience – it wants to sell the console to existing ...
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E3 2010: Kotick eyes $3bn pre-owned market
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has told investors that the publisher wants a slice of the $3bn pre-owned games.
Argos clarifies pre-owned ambitions
Retailer Argos has confirmed to MCV that its pre-owned trial revealed in March has not been rolled out nationwide… yet.
Mario Galaxy 2 sparks price battle
It’s got a great chance of being one of the biggest releases on 2010, so perhaps it’s no surprise that two High Street retailers are focusing very heavily on Nintendo’s ...
Tesco and Asda step up pre-owned offer
Having dipped their toes into the pre-owned games market in February, MCV understands that both Asda and Tesco have stepped up their efforts in the sector.
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Treyarch: Pre-owned is a problem
With multiplayer a key selling point for Black Ops, Treyarch community manager Josh Olin has told MCV that Activision and Treyarch would not be employing a similar system to that ...
SCEA ‘frustrated’ by pre-owned sales
Rob Dyer, Sony’s American senior VP of publisher relations, has confessed that years of missing out on any return from the sales of pre-owned games has been “very frustrating”.
Walmart reveals Gamecenter
In its latest move to up the market share it enjoys in the video game sector, retail giant Walmart has launched a brand new website focused specifically on its video ...
GameStop: Pre-owned will live on
As the number of publishers choosing to lock out content from players buying pre-owned games continues to swell, retailer GameStop has insisted that second hand games still have a ...
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Argos steps up pre-owned offensive
The pre-owned ambitions of Argos have seemingly taken a big stride forward with a brand new cut-price offer on two upcoming new releases.
Now THQ takes to DLC codes
The floodgates have well and truly opened – THQ has become the latest publisher to offer free DLC as an incentive for buying its games brand new.
Missing features for pre-owned Sims 3
The Sims 3 will be the latest title to penalise those who buy the pre-owned version of the game when it arrives on Xbox 360 and PS3 later this year ...
Pre-owned specialist gets cash injection
In news that hits home the importance of the second hand video games market, Maryland based pre-owned specialist Game Trading Technologies has secured a substantial $3.9m worth of investment.
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Now Argos enters pre-owned market
Argos has followed Tesco and Asda by buying and selling used games, MCV can reveal.
US: Toys R Us offers hardware trade-ins
Toys R Us in North America had added video game consoles to its pre-owned offer.
GAME pre-owned sales rocket to £177m
GAME Group has reported that its pre-owned sales have jumped to £177 million for the six months ending July 31st.
No trade-in kiosks for Best Buy UK
Carphone Warehouse has told MCV that there are no plans to bring the trade-in ‘vending machines’ seen in Best Buy US stores to the UK.
US: Pre-owned market worth $2bn
Games market analyst Michael Pachter has stated that the pre-owned games market in North Ameica is worth around $2bn annually, with 100m units sold in stores across the region each ...
GAME France hails pre-owned
The MD of GAME’s French business has hailed its pre-owned offering as one of the key ingredients that has seen the retailer’s store base grow by 500 per cent in ...
Like-for-like declines at GameStop
Though questions regarding gaming’s resilience to the recession are being asked with increasing frequency, GameStop has posted year-on-year gains for the quarter ending May 2nd – though the all important ...
US: Wal-Mart enters pre-owned market
North American retail giant Wal-Mart has quietly entered the pre-owned games market over the weekend with the surprise introduction of trade-in vending machines in some of its stores.
GAME reveals pre-owned trading is 18% of business
GAME has this morning finally, for the first time, started to publicly discuss the value of its pre-owned offer as part of its end-of-year results.
