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GameStop said that only a few consumers know that you can actually trade games for cash or store credit and majority doesn’t know anything about this.
The president of the biggest retailer of games Tony Bartel talked to Venturebeat yesterday and said “Believe it or not, only 40 percent of the people who walk into a GameStop store today know that we accept trades of games,”
This is kind of awkward that the hardcore gaming community have a love-hate relation with the retailer that have used old games and the ones they don’t want which are put forward as a form of currency to buy latest titles.
Tony also said that GameStop have around $1.2 billion in store credit that is spent on used games in the stores in which 70 percent goes to purchasing newly released titles. That’s a key point for Bartel to make because the developers and publishers think that the used games and trading business really hurt the sales of the new games.
Some of the game community appreciate the trading used gaming system that is introduced by GameStop for sometime now where as rest of the gaming world thinks that the retailer gets all the advantage as they make profit in used games twice, Once by purchasing them from consumers and second by selling it to other games. So that is double profit for a used game.
GameStop recently announced the trade deal for the upcoming Naughty Dog’s re-launch AAA title The Last of Us: Remastered. You can trade in your copy of Last of Us on the PlayStation 3 and get the PlayStation 4 version of The Last of Us: Remastered for half the price i.e only $24.49 where as orginal price of the game is $49.99.
The president of the biggest retailer of games Tony Bartel talked to Venturebeat yesterday and said “Believe it or not, only 40 percent of the people who walk into a GameStop store today know that we accept trades of games,”
This is kind of awkward that the hardcore gaming community have a love-hate relation with the retailer that have used old games and the ones they don’t want which are put forward as a form of currency to buy latest titles.
Tony also said that GameStop have around $1.2 billion in store credit that is spent on used games in the stores in which 70 percent goes to purchasing newly released titles. That’s a key point for Bartel to make because the developers and publishers think that the used games and trading business really hurt the sales of the new games.
Some of the game community appreciate the trading used gaming system that is introduced by GameStop for sometime now where as rest of the gaming world thinks that the retailer gets all the advantage as they make profit in used games twice, Once by purchasing them from consumers and second by selling it to other games. So that is double profit for a used game.
GameStop recently announced the trade deal for the upcoming Naughty Dog’s re-launch AAA title The Last of Us: Remastered. You can trade in your copy of Last of Us on the PlayStation 3 and get the PlayStation 4 version of The Last of Us: Remastered for half the price i.e only $24.49 where as orginal price of the game is $49.99.