British entertainment retailer HMV is going to enter the pre-owned market by accepting trade-in deals for its products. The scheme, known as Re/Play launches this Friday across 160 stores. It will sell all current console games, including PlayStation 2 titles.
"HMV Re/Play further underlines HMV's growing credentials as a games specialist, and enhances the credibility of our games offer through extended range and by providing a strong value proposition to our customers," states HMV's head of games Tim Ellis.
"This represents a great deal for our customers, as well as for our industry, as we believe it will help to drive footfall and stimulate increased sales of new games releases and hardware, as well as other entertainment products available from HMV."
HMV has already suggested that it is focusing more on games than music in recent times, and it's hardly surprising that the recession-resilient videogames industry is a tempting prospect for retailers. With HMV entering the second-hand games market, it will now be in a greater position to compete with videogame-specialist retailer GAME, something I fully support, because GAME is rubbish and competition is good.
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4:39 AM on 10.21.2008
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Hopefully they will start with a bang with a 25% extra on first trade-in or something.
So if you pick up a re/played game especially in one of the bigger stores then chances are it is brand new and unplayed
"HMV Re/Play further underlines HMV's growing credentials as a games specialist"
Great, and once you're done specialising in that, we've got a swingball tournament you can master going on in the yard with the other mental people, you deranged loony.
If Re/Play takes DVDs too, I'll be doing all mine at HMV from now on.
Rememember when pre-owned used to mean cheap and not just £2 less for a scrathced game that smells of ass.
I do agree with more compettion for the pre-owned market though, cheaper games ftw.