Tesco And Asda to Offer Game Trade-Ins?
You know that scene in Star Wars where the Star Destroyers are flying around and then the shadow of the Super Star Destroyer eclipses them all? This is just like that.
UK supermarket giants Tesco and Asda have reportedly started trials of pre-owned game trade-ins in a few of their stores. Asda have introduced the practice in one of its Leeds stores with Tesco trialling it in Essex, with the possibility of it being in other stores too.
The move, if introduced nationwide, could cause huge disruption to stores like GAME and Gamestation who use trade-in services to increase their intake. MCV notes that other non-specialist stores have being using trade-ins across the UK, with HMV offering a similar service (although from personal experience, rubbish prices). Tesco and Asda are two of the biggest retailers in the country, meaning that they can often offer games at reduced prices. At launch, both Tesco and Asda sold Fifa 10 for as little as £24.97 ‘“ half the regular price.
This will probably mean cheaper games for us, but publishers are likely to see this as another threat to their income as they make no money from pre-owned sales.
You crazy British and you’re crazy money! Thanks for Ricky Gervais/Eddie Izzard.
One the one hand the Supermarket’s disgusting lack of morals means games will be super cheap. On the other they will bankrupt the only decent remaining game-only shops.
Both stores sell games at lower than high street prices so surely then they’ll also have to pay gamers less to trade in their titles, if they want to keep any margin? Doesn’t give a great incentive to go there if that’s the case.
Yah know who else did this? Woolworths. Look where that got them.
(Yah, i know they died because EntertainmentUK was a pile of donkey vomit, but still, shuddap)
Definitely getting competitie in the trade in market for games now that the supermarkets are getting involved..
For the end consumer, all that matters is where pays the most in cash, or where if the trade in value is higher, is that trade-in credit going to be put to good use – at tescos at least if the games to buy arent cheap, one can always buy their shopping!
Ill stick with the online side of things when selling my games as ill get more money out of it – selling on ebay or if i cant be bother with the hassle, selling on tradeyourgames.co.uk