If you've been banned from your local GameStop for having kicked over a magazine rack, consider heading over to Best Buy to trade in your used games.
The big box retailer has announced that it has launched its videogame trade-in program at nearly 600 of its stores in the United States this week, with more "to soon follow." You'll be able to trade in games for a Best Buy gift card that you can use for anything in the store, not just games and gaming accessories. Best Buy says it will offer pre-owned games, as well, presumably when it builds up enough back stock to meet demand.
Until August 29, Best Buy is offering an addition $20 Best Buy gift card to anyone who trades in one of 100 select titles. A list of the stores currently participating in the trade-in program can be found online.
So is there anyone who is going to go rooting around their house for old games to trade in towards that 3D television set you've had your eye on?
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11:00 AM on 08.26.2010
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It's a catch-22. I like having a collection of games and would love to see them on a bigger, crisper, better HDTV. However, in order to get that 51" Plasma I'd have to trade in my games, rendering the TV useless for the purpose I'd like to buy it.
Also, I hate trading in games because the cost is never worth it, for me. Even if I buy a game for $59.99 and get to trade it back for $40, that's still twenty bucks I've pissed away and have nothing to show for. I'd rather have pissed away the $59.99 and still have something to show for it at the end of the day.
I mean, think about it logically. Say you trade in every new game you buy to get credit towards the next new game, losing twenty bucks each time. Let's say you do it once every two weeks. At the end of the year, you've spent a grand total of $569.99 (plus taxes, of course) at the store and have one bloody game to show for it. For the amount of money you've spent to have that one game, you could have bought (and kept) NINE games at full retail, let alone how big your collection could be if you'd bought games at less than full MSRP (Platinum Hits, going to Walmart to get that "we sell more of these in this store than every Gamestop in the city" discount, etc).
I spend that same amount and my collection grows. Sure, I've got to pass on some games, but hey... Come the industry dry spells, I've got games I can pick up that'll be new to me, and if my budget doesn't afford me the chance to pick up a new game, I've got a selection of games I can always replay.
Here's the thought experiment:
If I told you that there was no way to resell or trade-in your car, do you think you would buy more or less cars? Do you think you would buy cheaper or more expensive cars?
So part of the price of a new car is partially subsidized by the used market. Full stop.
Asking for any more is essentially economic rent seeking at the expense of consumer rights.
Still, I may give this a shot. There are a few titles I had the misfortune of buying *cough*Star Ocean for 360*cough* that I would like to recoup some losses from.
@Sivain - As you were.
That's how everything else at Best Buy seems to work.
When he tackled you did you scream "HUNTER!"
Tribes 2 is a regular at LAN parties for me and my friends.
Another reason to keep 'em around is just to check your own nostalgia blinders.
Go back to playing Valkyrie Profile on PS1? Yup, still as pretty and as fun to play. Go back and play Battle Arena Toshinden, on the same? What the hell was I thinking when I thought this was fun?
It's like a furniture retailer seeing my garage sale and crying that they dont get a cent after I bought it in the first place. Publisher are babies!
Make a good game, not a crap product, and people will keep it.
I doubt AAA games are the highest traded.
@Pedrovay2003
That's what happens when you try to trade your penis in for store credit.
The downside to Best Buy's trade-in plan is that it's not instant pay-out... Sounds like you have to wait for a week or so before your credit is mailed to you. :/
Kotaku got a message from Best Buy that amounted to this:
"Update: Best Buy emailed us the following correction to its press release: "CORRECTION: In honor of the Best Buy's new Trade-In program, Best Buy stores will be offering a $20 Best Buy Gift Card for more than 100 popular titles on Sunday, Aug. 29, NOT a $20 Best Buy gift card in addition to the trade-in value on more than 100 popular titles.""
So to me its sounds like (from the quote I added above) they're only accepting 100 popular titles and only giving $20 gift cards.. NOT an addtional $20 card on top of the value of the game (which would put newer popular games at something like a $40 trade in value, and thus not very profitable for Best Buy).. But like I said, Kotaku's article, and their updates, were/are still confusing.