A few months back, I had lunch with a games retail buyer. We went to this great Mexican place and he recommended the Diablo Shrimp. Sh*t was so spicy that it made me cry like a little bitch. It was during this lunch that this buyer ran a question by me: What would you think about a used games vending machine? Just stick in a plain disc and get back either money or credit for another game from within the machine. If you've ever seen the Redbox DVD rental machines, you'll have a good idea of what this would be like.
I said, no. No way. Gamers won't do this. Gamers want the box. Gamers want to be able to see the game. I had a bunch of reasons why this wouldn't work, but I guess my comments never made it to the top, as it seems that at least one retailer is going ahead with this vending machine.
Neocrisis has images of a Wal-Mart Video Games Buy Back vending machine that allows you to trade in your used PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii games. A scanner reads the game and compares it to a database. Unfortunately, due to bugs, they didn't get any farther than this. Apparently Mirror's Edge isn't in its database. I didn't even account for silly things like databases and bugs.
See, you should have listened to me.
Would you use a machine to trade in games?
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11:40 AM on 05.18.2009
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way too many issues with this for it to work at least thats my two cents.
Will it work ? Of course it will ! Its in a Wal Mart !!!!
I think they chose the machine because their staff is too dumb to check what a game would be worth in a database and subtract it to the new games you are buying.
Gamestop/EB Games 's staff can barely do it as we speak...
Bonus Question:
Will this machine ask me if I want to preorder something ???
I know that some current game systems use the ring barcode, but that will prove to be unreliable if the thing has thumbprints and scratches on it.
Above posters noted Scratched/Cracked Discs.
And as you do note Dale... No box or Manual or Database.
LAME!
Oh & now, "friends" stealing other PPL's Game Collections.
But, yeah, I'm sure the Wal-Mart WiiFit loving crowd will be all over this like a Sanyo LCD TV at a Black Friday sale.
sigh...
Next we'll have machines to buy games for us, then make them, and them finalley play them.
Also (and more importantly), are we talking cashback on these or some sort of Wal-Mart buttbux in-store credit?
I hate not having the box, but if prices are competitive enough I might buy into it. I don't like the idea, but hell, it might just work.
In all honesty though, who the hell goes to buy used games at Walmart?
Also, you can rent games out of these.
I foresse chaos, shitloads of chaos.
I foresee chaos, shitloads of chaos.
I would avoid for sure. i like to go into the shop and look the spotty kid in the face as he rips me off.