 So GameStop has actually do it something really really interesting and new and something I've never even heard of I've used services like Gamefly in the past You know where you pay a fee every single month and you can rent out a certain amount of games I you can hold on to those games for as long as you want But you never own them yet to send them back now You can purchase the games for reduced price if you want, but that's got really nothing to do with your membership fees It appears GameStop's getting into the game rentals business Currently I can only think of two ways to rent video games Through Gamefly or if you have a local red box, you can rent games through there Which is obviously the cheapest way to rent games. However There's usually a very limited selection of games now if you've ever been inside a game stop You'll know they have a huge library of used games, especially for systems like PlayStation 4 Xbox one Xbox 360 Etc etc etc the Nintendo switch use section isn't very big right now But again switch hasn't even been around a year yet And there's just not a lot of people reselling their switch games at this point because the kind of games that usually get sold back to the store are You know ones that have more consistent releases like next year if switch gets NBA 2k 19 NBA 2k 18s Gonna start appearing in a lot of game stops in summer of next year. So What GameStop is launching is something they are calling the power pass It's really interesting So it cost $60 the the ad I'm throwing it up on the screen now So six months 60 bucks enjoy half a year of unlimited gaming for the price of one new game Pick any pre-owned game from throwback classics to the latest hits Swap as often as you want and keep the last one You could sign up starting on November 19th Yes any game, so you bet you could take one game out of the time and Okay, the basis that you pay 60 bucks and you could take any game out at a time one game Play it as much as you want bring it back trade it in for another used game and another used game or another Is and you just keep and you can do it at any store So if I pick one up for my local GameStop I can bring it into another GameStop somewhere else and get a different game out and Yeah, at the end you get to keep the final game that you have rented out Now obviously, you know, if you're a savvy consumer, you're going to turn in You're gonna trade in your final rental game To get a game that is close to full $60 right because they're including games that are anywhere from costing You know $5 used all the way up to when they buy like a brand new game back in their reseller for $55 You could walk out one of those $55 games while having played all those other games along the way It's a really interesting rental system to me because one GameStop has one of the largest local libraries of used games around and Two if you're gaming on a budget, this feels like a really smart way to enjoy a ton of games Now obviously before you jump in you should make sure hey There's already enough games out you want to try but maybe not buy In the first place to take advantage of it because you never know You know if you're hoping for like a used copy of Super Mario Odyssey to play in the next six months You you might be out of luck Although you could be thinking oh well maybe at the end of the six months I could find one store that has one copy of Super Mario Odyssey used and hey you get to keep it It's a really interesting thing that I kind of understand from a business perspective now You're obviously gonna have the concern that oh Someone's gonna take out a game and not return it But see this is why the six months for 60 bucks thing is so cool because if you don't return that game you get to keep it anyways So it's actually smarter than red box is red box. I know there's people who have a huh Basically stolen from red box they'll rent something with their card a credit card check card or whatever They'll rent a game out and then they will cancel that card go get a new one because that costs them nothing And then never return the game and then their their card can't get charged and basically they don't get in any trouble I don't know if that's ever gonna catch up to people that do that But I know that people do movies and all that stuff as well So it's not actually a new thing but people do it with games and that's stealing here If you do forget to return a game you just get to keep it anyways So that's I really actually like this now. I understand the GameStop gets a lot of flak for a lot of deserved reasons I don't think necessarily them opening up the new games is You know after a couple weeks of it being out is really as big of a deal as people make it out to be Obviously when you when you buy like a brand new copy of a game The first thing you should do is check the disc and make sure it's literally a brand new disc And it makes it with a used disc, but beyond that I don't actually think that's ever been a big deal I think if you want something like that you should go you know to a store like Walmart or something if you want a fully sealed copy because Reality is GameStop deals with just games and they want people picking up the games off the shelves and looking at them And when that's the case They're not gonna have everything behind a glass case to prevent stealing So they have to they can't leave the discs in the brand new boxes or people are gonna start stealing the discs I mean it happens at Walmart if you ever go to their Their section of like of cheap DVDs or even cheaper games they don't have behind the cases sometimes you'll notice One of them has been slit open by someone and the disc is missing It's something that GameStop would have to deal with on a huge thing if they didn't take the discs out themselves To prevent theft so I'm actually okay with that They're not gonna they're impossible for them to have enough room behind the counter to hold all new copies of all video games out There and just leave about one box on the shelf They try to do that sometimes, but it's almost impossible so That doesn't bother me GameStop has had some crappy customer servers a certain store as well I went over in the past so my local GameStop is actually very nice to me But there are other good gaming deals out there You know you can go to Best Buy their gamers clubs really nice I'm an Amazon Prime member So I think I get like 20% off of all brand new games But what I don't get is the price of one game try as many games as I want over the course of six months and decide at The end what game I want to keep that is a very I mean even in this ad I mean look they're showing our Call of Duty Black Ops 3 you have Madden 18 there breath of the wild Pokemon Sun and Moon Super Mario 3d World even from the Wii U Horizon Zero Dawn Grand Theft Auto 5 Overwatch I mean these are all games that you're not getting for 60 bucks anyways even used so This is just really cool to me. I think this is obviously You could argue it's a desperation move, you know best buy or best buy Blockbuster tried to do this for a little bit before and obviously blockbuster was a rental place But I think like this is just a better deal than even what blockbuster was doing since it's as many games You want you can bring a game home play it one night. Don't like it bring it back and get a new one the next day It's you can end up playing, you know potentially like 90 different games in six months for only 60 bucks I think this what what this is good for is People gaming on a budget. I think all of us understand like coming up here You know, there's like a whole bunch of games coming out this holiday There's no way in heck I can afford all those games But over the course of the next six months I guarantee I can find used copies of those games inside one of the one of my you know I have two local game stop stores inside one of those game stop stores I could probably find a used copy of all of those games within the next six months and be able to try and play them I mean if you think about it I could rent out a game like horizon zero dawn beat that game turn it in and not be out any money and just grab another game It's crazy. It's crazy to me that that they're running the service. It's obviously because they have such a huge a huge swath of games and this obviously guarantees them that someone paid 60 bucks for at least one game at the end of the day So I'm a game stop gets their money. We get to play as many games as we want I think this is almost a win-win. That's not I mean it's 10 bucks a month It's kind of like the cost of game fly without the inconvenience of having to put it in the mail, right? You just go to your store grab a game come home Obviously, you could say the inconvenience is that you don't know that they're gonna have a game you want to play But whatever, you know, I'm someone that has you know an Xbox one and And a switch I'm sure between those two platforms. I can find something I want to try Every time I go in and I'm done with whatever game. I rented out at that time This is really interesting too for like a game like Madden you can get a game like Madden just play it during the That it's parts of the NFL season turn in later get a different game. It's I don't know I think this is a really I have to actually applaud GameStop. This feels like a good deal I don't always like everything GameStop does I didn't like obviously the program they have with their employees trying to push to use game sales and Trying to push, you know, people buying passes and their GameStop cards and blah, blah, blah Like I just upgraded to I wasn't called their elite pro card And I only did that because I had enough points on my card and for it didn't cost me anything And it gets me like free two-day shipping. I guess which is nice if I have to order from GameStop And can't get it off Amazon And obviously gives me bonus points and 20% off pre-owned and blah, blah, blah, blah, like it's a little bit better than their original pro card But whatever it doesn't matter I don't know if I shop enough of a game stuff to even make that worthwhile But I'm excited about this this pass. I Did this in the power pass unlimited gaming? I'm gonna give it a try. I'm gonna give it a try on 11 19 I'm going to pick up a power pass and hopefully be able to play some switch games That I don't currently own and it's just really cool at the end of it all I get to keep one of the games So it's not just a rental service like Gamefly where once you're done, you know, once you cancel your service You're done. No, I pay my 60 bucks and at the end I get to keep whichever game I want That was obviously a used copy again. You guys, let me know what you think about this in the comments below I'm personally excited about this because now this is gonna give me the opportunity to play so many more games That I might not have otherwise had the opportunity to play I mean, there's so many games just this year I have missed out on because money money money you guys have seen it during my live streams and my Q&A's at times You know when people ask me, hey, why haven't you gotten this? Why haven't you gotten this and I just put up the money sign because I can't afford it Gaming is an expensive hobby. I'm all for anything that makes that just a little bit more affordable Obviously, you know as a game fly user in the past I understood the convenience of that But this is even more convenient for me as someone who lives close to a game stop Yeah, I'm excited by this. I hope you're excited by this Let me know all of your feelings down in the comments below Anyways folks, I am Nathaniel Robles from Nintendo Prime and if you like this video, you know what to do and if you dislike this video Well, you know hit that dislike button Subscribe for more content just like this and I will catch you in the next one