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UK retailer GAME to cease video game trade-ins, staff say

"As part of the integration of GAME, we will be phasing out the trade-in, pre-owned and Game Elite offerings in the UK over the coming months," a spokesperson for the chain's owner Frasers Group told BBC News"

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ocelot07119d ago

Seems like a blizzar move here. It's the second hand market they thrived upon.

If I'm not mistaken game are owned by the same company who own GameStop in the US?

BeHunted119d ago (Edited 119d ago )

"Seems like a blizzar move here"

How? Game charges £5 delivery fee. Overpriced.

GameStop doesn’t own Game. Mike Ashley does, who owns Sports Direct, House of Fraser, etc...

ocelot07119d ago

Yup I was wrong about ownership.

Yes they charge £5 delivery that is terrible. GAME is a awful company. But it is a blizzar move as just a few years ago they where crying over that the pre owned market was their bread and butter. Trade in prices have always been crap at game. But realistically got most cities in the UK. If you wanted a new game on release. Game was the only store that you could go to to trade games in towards brand new games.

-Foxtrot119d ago

Whaaaa

Gamestation is gone

Grainger Games is gone

CEX is shit

Jesus. The only reason we use GAME is because there’s nobody else and they get away with this shit.

ocelot07119d ago

I I'm fine with cex. It's the best place to trade and buy second hand games. Game has been rubbish for years imo.

Surprised they will be getting rid of Game Elite as well. I have £32 game points. Think it's time I got and spend that and get something I have been meaning to buy.

BeHunted119d ago (Edited 119d ago )

Game owned GameStation. I didn't 'see a point owning 2 Game Stores with different names that sell the same stuff.

-Foxtrot119d ago

They owned them but they didn't originally.

It was only when they were bought and after GAME went into administration they started to close GameStation shops down or replace them with GAME ones

Basically getting rid of their competitor

Agent75118d ago

But GAMESTATION was a lot better.

ModsDoBetter119d ago

Games Centre was a great wee independent retailer in the UK too, sadly gone years ago.

I pay £3/month for Elite as I usually buy 2-3 PS5 games a month so getting 10% back as credit on a £6-£70 game adds up. Strange move they're stopping Elite now...

-Foxtrot119d ago

Their trade in offers are f****** atrocious even when games are in good condition and still almost new releases

Agent75118d ago

CEX is a joke for prices now. They list games as mint condition, which is against the Trades Description Act. Mint condition mean that an item has never been handled/used. They'd be hard pushed to advertise games as being in good condition. Handled by so many people, scratched disc and food on the manuals. That's CEX is a nutshell.

-Foxtrot118d ago

I remember taking some film steelbooks to CEX when I needed money once, they had never been opened but when I took them they made me take the plastic off them, open them up and only gave me shitty trade offers that matched "Used" conditions. Why? Because they had been opened...

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purple101119d ago

eBay does well on second hand games, always works for me, always get more than I would have done trade in .

which if effectively a double con, as with a trade in you are normally offered a fair market price, on the reasoning, you are in-affect promising to buy the future product form the same retailer.

Number1TailzFan119d ago

Yeah eBay will give you a better return especially if you get those fee promotions every 2 weeks, some just like the no hassle risk with CEX. No chance I'd trade in a rare/expensive game to CEX like my copies of Shantae & the pirate's curse for switch there tho, they'd probably give you like 1/4th of it's value.

ModsDoBetter119d ago

CEX is the one for me.
eBay have terrible seller protection and after being burned twice over games that I've sold, I just stopped using it. If I want to sell a game, I just take it to CEX who offer a decent price compared to GAME.

andy85119d ago

olMyerslo can I ask how you were burned? Because I use ebay frequently but I make sure to have the item tracked and signed for. Only issue I had was a guy trying to claim PayPal saying he didn't receive a controller, but I had the tracking number so they ruled in my favour

ocelot07119d ago

You should give Vinted ago. Zero fees for the seller.

andy85119d ago

Were people even doing this these days? They offer awful amounts. The best way is to ebay or gumtree. Day ones games are generally getting 90% of my money back after I'm done with them

ocelot07119d ago

Probably kids/teens still doing it. I have not personally traded anything into game since I traded in a psp and games on the release day for the vita. Even then I got them to price match cex on trade in credit. They even stopped doing that a few years ago.

Kosic119d ago

A high street store can not compete with online. Game prices are £59.99 for a new release. Go with many of the online stores and those games are £44.99-49.99 for day one.

The fact game charge you £5 more to collect in-store compared to their own online shop is a joke. The excuse was on the lines "it's our stocking fee."

I stopped using game around 5 or more years back. I'd pop in looking for a real bargain, but rarely find anything.

I'm not surprised they're going out of business, they could not get with the times and they definitely could not compete with online when greed was the forefront.

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Sony States We Will Know More About the "Long-Term Vision" of PlayStation Later This Month

Sony has confirmed that there is something happening later this month and it involves SIE which is the division that operates PlayStation.

Skuletor1d 1h ago

My guess, is they were waiting for the new CEO position to be finalized before their next showcase and now that's out of the way.

neutralgamer19921d ago

Yes I think you are right. They wanted the leadership in place hopefully now they can give a strong showing of what’s to come

S2Killinit23h ago

Its not confirmed that this will involve game announcements.

Cacabunga23h ago

Tbh this claim doesn’t reassure me at all..

Eonjay19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

@S2Killinit

If this is about games that worries me because I thought they were walking away from announcing titles far in advance. For them to say 'Long Term Vision' sounds like we are getting announcements years in advance. I don't want that. Lets hope the long term vision part refers to their goal for the company and that they also give us info on projects reaching fruition in the short term.

Also, this is gonna be where we find out that they are going full PC day and date (or greatly reduced if they don't have the capacity at their studios). Its gonna happen. Why? Because all you have to do is look at Helldivers... fastest selling PlayStation game ever. And they make good games. They will sell.
Now we can fight over whether this will hurt the console space. I don't think so as long as they provide an option that will allow people to come close to maxing out their graphics... ergo the PRO.

StormSnooper12h ago

@Eonjoy
I think MS already made that decision for ALL consoles when they went full PC. There is no way other consoles can stay away from PC when their competitor decides to treat PC and Xbox the same. If eventually Sony and possibly even Ninty don’t go PC, they would be handing an advantage to MS. Unfortunately

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46player1d ago

Sounds good, PS5 Pro preorders. Let’s do this!

Crows901d ago

I don't get it....we barely got any ps5 exclusives and people already want a refresh??

crazyCoconuts23h ago

When they show GTA6 on the Pro I think you'll get it

VersusDMC23h ago

Pretty sure we got 5 console exclusives this year so far and 3rd party games took advantage of the PS4pro last gen so it will happen with the PS5pro as well.

romulus2322h ago

I don't get it either but people get new iphones the second they come out even though they just bought the previous one which works just fine. Some people just want the latest and greatest no matter what and have the income to do it. If the improvement to games is significant enough I may get one but probably not at launch.

-Foxtrot22h ago

Exactly

I will always be behind the idea that one of the reasons why this gen doesn't feel as much of a leap is because we kind of got spoilt with the PS4 Pro last gen. It was like a teaser to this gen.

Looking back on a technological leap after 7 years is way more impressive than if it was 3 or so.

Crows9017h ago

@versus

You're making this out to be something it isn't. I think it's stupid that sony themselves have barely put out any exclusives that can only run on the ps5 and we already have calls for a "pro" version...that is mindblowingly dumb in my opinion

Einhander197215h ago(Edited 15h ago)

People come up with the silliest reasons to claim the console isn't needed, exclusives made by Sony don't matter, third party games are like 500 to 1 even in the best year.

And since PS1 PlayStation has relied on third party publishing deals, the vast vast majority of games that people see as PlayStation games were made by third party developers published by Sony, Insomniac only recently became a PlayStation studio all their games made before that were as a third party.

PS5 Pro is the same as a graphics card upgrade that no one ever complains about like this, and it's way cheaper performance per dollar than a CPU.

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Profchaos11h ago

Doubt you're getting a pro annoucement in a business update

InUrFoxHole5h ago

Hard pass. They haven't even made the most out of the base ps5

anast1d ago

Big things right around the corner.

purple1011d ago

Almost optimistic to say, but those leaks of the 6 cancelled games (games that were not even announced)

yeh, maybe some didn't actually get cancelled after all

notachance1d ago

as a long time ps fans I hope they still put great single player games front and center, make your live service games if you have to but don’t force your 1st party studios to make something they don’t want to.. redfall is an unfortunate example of a good studio forced to basically destroy themselves.

Eonjay19h ago

Good points. How would you feel if Sony decided to put their single player games on PC day and date? This would allow their studios making single player games to recoup more money to keep the games coming. If it works with GaaS why not single player?

notachance16h ago(Edited 15h ago)

If they do that, it’s just a matter of time before someone make a console using PC as a platform, then that console would automatically have the full PC games (which means combined PS, PC, and Xbox games) as a library.

In fact, who’s to say steam aren’t working at it right now lol, just imagine it, something with the ease of use of console that can play both ps and xbox games day 1.. combined with the marketbase of steam, there’s the new king of console.

Or better yet, Nintendo would do it and there will finally be one console that can play it all..

Ps: on the topic of games releasing day and date, you could argue that by delaying PC release date there will be a few people who double dipped on buying games, just like what good ol rockstar loved doing with their games..

fr0sty11h ago

PC PS5 ports lack certain features, like the 3D audio and controller haptic support...so there will always be reasons to play PS5 games on a PS5.

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