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How Target and Best Buy Will Tap Into the Used Games Market

By james_fudge

Speaking to Gamasutra Best Buy and Target both claim that, while Gamestop may have the lion's share of the used games market now, things will inevitably change. Last week both Best Buy and Target announced the launch of used games initiatives, and while both companies have different approaches, the goal is the same: to tap into the lucrative market that Gamestop has managed to keep all to itself.

Right now both companies are not actually selling used games; Best Buy is using a third-party company to refurbish and repackage the games - with plans to start selling them "soon" while Best Buy will take those used games and sell them or recycle them.

Best Buy merchant director of gaming David Benson told Gamasutra in an email that the company is not concerned about GameStop's years of experience and stranglehold on the used games market: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).