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GameStop Researching How To Resell Digital Content

Posted on Friday, July 27 @ 13:25:00 Eastern by


Earlier in June, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that users cannot be prevented from reselling software licenses and that owners of digital content can distribute them without the consent or opposition from the rightholder.

This has lead GameStop into surveying the possibility of reselling digital content, which comes to no surprise given that 27.4% or $2.62 billion of the company's revenue comes from secondhand sales of boxed retail copies.

GameStop CEO Paul Raines, in a statement to GameSpot (yeah for anagrams!), was tight-lipped on which companies he has spoken with concerning this new development:
It’s very interesting. There are some technologies out there in Europe, and we’ve looked at a couple that are involved. We’re interested; it’s not a meaningful business yet. Right now we’re not seeing that as a huge market, but I think we’re on the leading edge. There are a few companies, a few startups, out there that we’ve talked to that are doing this.... we wouldn’t want to disclose that and have our competitors rushing in.
If this comes to fruition, it could well boost GameStop's pre-owned sales even further and help them navigate the digital business that is the future of video game distribution.

That said, would you even want to sell digital content to GameStop?

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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
    Nope

    Nuh uh
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  • used44
    used44
    Joined: Mar 2002
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
    I think this would be impossible without PSN, XBL putting the technology into their services themselves. I'd be shocked to see GameStop find some way to work around the console manufacturers.
    0 1
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
    If I can get the games I want for cheaper than MSRP, I'm totally fine with it. I'm going to spend the money anyway, might as well get my games for a few dollars less and get a few dollars back when I return it. This would all be crazy talk if the state of the movie/video game rental industry hadn't turned to **** so fast.
    0 0
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
    I'd just wait for Amazon to come up with their own digital trade-in program and use that instead.
    0 0
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
    I'd just wait for Steam to come up with their own digital trade-in program and use that instead.
    0 1
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
    I don't know if this could actually happen without a major change in how DRM is implemented and how games are sold. So really, I think the situation is like that one rebel in Life of Brian: he cannot have the ability to give birth, but he CAN have the right to give birth.
    0 1

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