{"id":7228,"date":"2009-10-06T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7228"},"modified":"2015-05-28T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T05:52:49","slug":"wal-mart-rolls-out-used-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wal-mart-rolls-out-used-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Rolls Out Used Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8972 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wal-mart-S-e1432878715953.jpg\" alt=\"wal-mart-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/>OCT. 6, 2009 \u2022 Based on its test of used game kiosks that began in May, Wal-Mart announced that it was rolling out used sales to all of its stores. PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS titles will be offered at between 15% and 30% off original MSRP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 128);\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact: GameStop&#8217;s focus on used games has been the source of growing\u00a0concern for game publishers. \u00a0The worry is that GameStop tends to focus on pushing more profitable used games to consumers instead of having them buy new product.\u00a0 After GameStop, Wal-Mart is probably the most important game retailer in the U.S.\u00a0 However, we feel that their entry into the used game market will not have as big an impact.\u00a0 Unlike GameStop, the used game kiosks should be a fairly minor portion of Wal-Mart&#8217;s retail scheme.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 6, 2009 \u2022 Based on its test of used game kiosks that began in May, Wal-Mart announced that it was rolling out used sales to all of its stores. PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS titles will be offered at between 15% and 30% off original MSRP. Impact: GameStop&#8217;s focus on used games has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14221,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}