I've been wondering that myself, if only for the sake of knowing whether the developers actually make a fair amount of money back on game rentals.
Advice on game rental system
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I've been wondering that myself, if only for the sake of knowing whether the developers actually make a fair amount of money back on game rentals.
I cant see how money can be made on this now days.
Consoles are cheap as chips to buy and games for rental will cost you massively more meaning you need to rent them 20 times each to spin a profit.
I think the market for this was 10 years ago but thats my opinion.
People just buy games and use stores like That "sexy high street exchange" one.
Every town with any profit in it has one
I hired a PSone back in the day from Blockbuster had a massive deposit on it which had to be secured on a credit card, you need too put a hell of a lot of money upfront before any profit mrgin....
good luck tho if you lot stick on it, its a nice service, but not a money spinner.
Consoles are cheap as chips to buy and games for rental will cost you massively more meaning you need to rent them 20 times each to spin a profit.
I think the market for this was 10 years ago but thats my opinion.
People just buy games and use stores like That "sexy high street exchange" one.
Every town with any profit in it has one
I hired a PSone back in the day from Blockbuster had a massive deposit on it which had to be secured on a credit card, you need too put a hell of a lot of money upfront before any profit mrgin....
good luck tho if you lot stick on it, its a nice service, but not a money spinner.
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I'm launching a new pc store (ocuk dont do what we do so no worries) and i've had the idea of renting xbox and ps3 games, its a small town and blockbuster isnt very close. Anyone got any advice at all? Including how do you stop people robbing the games?
Thanks
Don't forget to buy proper rental copies etc and when they sign up for an account get drivers license + 2 utility bills showing address.
this is the main problem, no-one seems to know if there is a "rental" version of games, I'm guessing not. I've just been Blockbuster and hired an xbox game, theres nothing on the disk or box to say its a rental version (like DVD's do) so I'm guessing they need to buy a license instead.
Its not our main business but would help to get customers in to be able sell other products