6:55 AM on 04.28.2007
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Play Nintendo has insider info on some upcoming movements by Blockbuster Video. In a bid to not become totally irrelevant in a world dominated by the Netflix's, the Gamefly's and the widespread-P2P-piracy's of the world, Blockbuster is going to start renting out titles for the Nintendo DS. They've been testing the ploy in select markets, and amazingly people want to rent games for portable consoles as much as they want to rent them for more traditional machines!
Why Blockbuster didn't start this practice two decades ago is anyone's guess, but if I had some sort of blog where it was my duty to make wild, unfounded guesses on these sorts of things, I would have to say that Blockbuster is terrified of going under, and since they are no longer the only game in town, they now have to match everything these online rental places can offer. Of course, the brick and mortar golem that is a company like Blockbuster can never hope to defeat the lithe, HTML phantom of Netflix, but it should be entertaining watching the once-proud company smash itself to bits trying to keep up.
[Thanks Smitty3000 for making me write a post totally devoid of humor. Jerk.]
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Mind you, they don't rent the more obscure and usually better of all the DS titles, just the more main stream ones.
There used to be other rental places nearby, one of which rented GBA games (and much older and obscure titles for much older systems). I hate renting handheld games because you can't save the data to a memory card (PSP is the exception), but I still often rent them from GameFly (since you can keep the game if you like it).
I hope Blockbuster does this so their selection doesn't suck quite so bad, but I still probably won't be renting them much. Except for Pokemon Ranger. I NEED THAT MANAPHY.
And they did have Gameboy games, and I think Gameboy Colors games. I still remember dropping to my knees in pain when they stopped having SNES games... just not right
Then again, once digital distribution takes over, I'm sure renting will become obsolete for the industry as well.
Luckily my old buddy R4 saves me from renting.
"He's going to ride the skinboat to tuna town!"
"Dad!"