well, that certainly didn't take long. industry gamers reports that walmart's and best buy's stab at tapping into the lucrative used games market will soon come to an abrupt end. e-play, the company that distributed used games kiosks to certain locations for the two retailers, suspended operations earlier today -- and as a result, said kiosks will be shut down and removed within the next three weeks. neither walmart nor best buy looks to be pursuing similar operations without e-play.

we had an inkling that the two retailers weren't seeing significant returns from dabbling in the used games market through third-party vendor e-play, but the brevity of this venture is still a little surprising. even our ''''''mullet and horn-rimmed glasses'''''' phase lasted longer than eight measly months.walmart and best buy cease used games trade-in operations originally appeared on joystiq on mon, 01 feb 2010 17:59:00 est. please see our terms for use of feeds.




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