Best Buy Test Offers New Games at Used Prices

If this even has the remote change of going nationwide I highly doubt GameStop will be in trouble for a number of reasons.

1) All GameStop would have to do is do a few used sale prices on a couple popular games (which they do anyway), say Call of Duty... everyone will be flooding to Best Buy to get it at the used price completely giving a blow to Best Buy for having to sell it's new stock for like $20 under retail. Or they'll deny it and kill their image.

2) There is a massive number of games not produced anymore. I'd say over 90%. It's usually just a matter of weeks before a new game stops being manufactured, unless it's very popular. Good luck finding a new copy of a fair number of games a short while after it's out.

3) This is based off of 2. You can't get this deal if you can't find a copy. If it turns out to be such a great deal for customers, they'll sell and you won't be able to find any unless you're campin' out the night before.

4) As of now, Best Buy still doesn't do trades. It's only in testing. A huge number of GS's sales are because kids, teens, adults alike trade their stuff in to afford new stuff. They can't get store credit and head over to Best Buy to use it and save that $5 so they'll still be getting them at GS.

That's all if this even goes through.....

Please, please, please let this start to kill off Gamestop. That company is a leech on the industry.

This could be a good thing for consumers. Hopefully it will drive down Gamestop's used game prices to where they should be. $15-30. Prices are getting seriously out of control. It costs around $150 to buy a full game these days. This includes the half-assed $60 DVD and the DLC they make you pay for if you want the whole game (fallout 3)

BestBuy price match, what a joke!
Excuse me WorstBuy employee, can I price match this game? Sorry are stock number does not match up to this game. But It's the same game!! No, we have the super deluxe WorstBuy edition not found anywhere else, so the price match Is void.

in other words, selling their games at a loss.

5$ off the retail price on a used game should be illegal. Considering games should depreciate in value over time, as new platforms are introduced. I hope this works, because I'll never buy from Gamestop again. Used games should be 1/2 the price of a new game if not at the very least 3/4 of the price.

this wont solve anything.. they are either selling at a loss.. or got it cheaper from the publisher..

if they got it cheaper, gamestop will get it cheaper..and sell the used copy even cheaper.

So, $5 cheaper?

Limited to the Utah area? I just got a bonus from work today. It must be my lucky day.

This... sounds like an April fool's joke.

I guess they're aiming for volume sales? This will be interesting to watch.

This is an excellent idea. I hope this is successful and they roll the program out all over the country.

I buy lots of used games form Gamestop, but if I could get the same price for a new copy at Best Buy, I would probably do that instead.

I hope this catches on to all Best Buys!

ha! I grew up in West Jordan. I never hear anything about that place.