May 15th, 2010 
Brad McGraw 
You might have heard that Walmart, Best Buy and Toy R Us are getting back in the used game market. While there is no news about how far into it Toys R Us and Best Buy are going to be doing this, Walmart at least seems to think they can make this work. They are rolling this out to 5 stores and will ‘monitor with great interest’. Walmart is taking a smart approach, going slowly and making sure things work for them. Used sales is a large market and rushing into it as they did before with the kiosks was a bad move. At least they’ve learned some lessons and are taking a more sensible approach.
Right on the heels of this announcement by big box retailers, Andrew Oliver, co-founder of Blitz Games, has said that used sales is more of a problem than piracy. He told Develop:
“Arguably the bigger problem on consoles now is the trading in of games,” he tells Develop.
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