A month later, Japan’s cheap new PS5 rental service is still proving successful, with 200 locations renting out consoles at 100% capacity (automaton-media.com)
from simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 09:26
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Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 09:48 next collapse

Fascinating business model.

rental sales of CDs

CDs? What would you rent CDs for? The only thing I can think of is music and win 9x games.

maxprime@lemmy.ml on 22 Apr 12:09 next collapse

Japanese people use CDs quite a bit still.

Yermaw@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 14:20 collapse

Are Japan that far in the future that they’re using CD the same way we use vinyl?

tanisnikana@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 15:04 next collapse

Japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980.

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Apr 11:28 collapse

CDs never really went away there. Sin e 2 or 3 years I am creating a new collection of CDs.

[deleted] on 22 Apr 12:40 collapse

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maxprime@lemmy.ml on 22 Apr 12:09 next collapse

I have great memories renting N64s before I owned one.

jbk@discuss.tchncs.de on 22 Apr 12:35 next collapse

what the hell til lol

Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world on 23 Apr 06:43 collapse

When I was a kid in the 80s this sort of business model was common with TVs and video recorders, then with early PCs. The machines were too expensive for many people to buy, so they’d rent instead. Cheaper consumer electronics killed this off, but as living standards get tighter maybe we’ll start seeing rentals becoming a thing again.