Archive for the tag "secondhand"
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Retail, Trade | 14 Comments »
Frontier boss David Braben has stepped up his campaign against secondhand games sales, telling Eurogamer at Game City in Nottingham that retailers are essentially fiddling the trade.
"The shops are not ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Retail, Trade, UK | 6 Comments »
Secondhand games sales are hurting single-player games, Frontier's David Braben has told GI. Goddamn those secondhand games.
"I think it's really damaging to the single-player experience," he said. "Games like BioShock ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in America, Retail, Trade | No Comments »
According to this Gamasutra report, 49 million American gamers buy both used and new games.
At this year’s MI6 game marketing conference in San Francisco, the MI6 organizers exclusively commissioned ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in America, MI6 2008, Retail, Trade | 2 Comments »
Eric Villain boss of "media and entertainment insights" for OTX, said that the future of the game resale market is online at marketing conference MI6 yesterday. From Gamercyte:
The future of ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in America, Retail | 1 Comment »
Major US retailer Circuit City is to start selling secondhand games, according to this.
The store chain is to trial the service in 10 outlets, with plans to expand to other ...
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