Topic: Walmart to Sell Used Games

[Br26]

Soon you'll be able to sell your games to the massive retail chain for store credit.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/36901/walmart-to-sell-used-games

Walmart will be entering the used video games market on March 26.

On that date, people who wish to sell their used games will be able to do so at any of the 3,100 Walmart locations across North America. You will be able to trade in used games for in-store credit for use at any Walmart or Sam's Club store. However, receiving cash for used games is not an option, and no hardware can be traded in.

[broodwars]

Because if there's one thing the Used Games market definitely needs more of, it's more trash in the marketplace with even lower standards.

[NeoThunder]

If any place understands gamers it's Walmart. I always love going in and asking for the new Mario game and hearing "is that for Xbox?"

[lolmonade]

So….the Wal-Marts in my area have very, very small video game sections as it is, and knowing how valuable real estate is in a store, My assumption is that the amount of new stock they carry is going to shrink substantially.  Additionally, i'm guessing there'll be a very specific list of games they'll accept, lowball you as bad as Gamestop on trade-in value, and use a very similar pricing structure to Gamestop on their used prices.


You're going to see those discount shelves with 2+ year old games swapped-out for shrink-wrapped used copies that they can get a higher margin of return on.  Makes sense from a business standpoint.

[Stratos]

I hope it brings some form of competition to the used games market because the brick-and-mortar storefront is cornered by Gamestop.

[SectorStar]

I've only been buying my name games from gamestop, theres so much less hassle! Before we got a gamestop here about 5 years ago, wal-mart was where I got most of my games. There'd be 5 people in the dept, but neither of them had the keys to open the cases, and the one person in the store that did they could never seem to reach. It'd take me 20 mins sometimes to leave that place just to get ONE game! Also like other have said they seem to be completely uneducated about electronics items all together in their dept at times.

[Mop it up]

I wonder if this means Best Buy has been pulling good profit from used games.