Rent 360 Games at Xtravision

fifth

This week, Xtravision are rolling out their new Xbox 360 rental selection.

I have no information on pricing information, what I.D./deposit/special conditions (if any) needed to rent these games nor any information regarding the range of titles.

It appears this was a last minute decision or a very well kept secret in the company.

All I can say is, woohoo!

I will update when I know more.

kaisersose77

ye a friend of mine heard that last week, i posted in one of the 360 rental threads the other day asking you if you knew if it was true. Luckily it is

fifth

kaisersose77 wrote:

ye a friend of mine heard that last week, i posted in one of the 360 rental threads the other day asking you if you knew if it was true. Luckily it is

Oh sorry I must have missed it!

Good news though. Take a load off the wallet I hope.

Kinetic^

Sweet.

Slippin Jimmy

Thats great. Try before you buy lol:rolleyes:

koneko

Interesting. Will be good to see how much it is and what kind of selection they'll have.

kaisersose77

With all these cheap bundles and tesco giving them away, i doubt they'll be short of ppl looking to rent games

Kenny_D

Finally

Stokolan

Just called into one of my local xtravision in waterford city and they said after xmas they'll be renting them.

Smellyirishman

Excellent. Although it's still quite a blow on the wallet renting DVDs never mind games.

Clover

well that is good news at last.

robinph

Great news, and about time too.

junglecliff

any sign of hd dvds to rent.......
thats what im waiting on.

Julez

Sweeeeet!!!

projectmayhem

strange because my store (an A store, i.e. makes profit & is quite bit, sells everything) was told that it will be february that 360 rentals begin...

junglecliff wrote:

any sign of hd dvds to rent.......
thats what im waiting on.

no rental place will be doing hd-dvd or blu-ray until the consumer decides what they want. right now i know D.I.D., power city & harvey norman are more interested in blu-ray, as are the big american retailers (higher markup, i assume)...

fifth

All I can say is that maybe the news hasn't filtered out to stores yet but as far as I know this is how the allocations are going for the SOUTH EAST (leinster) district:

Wallbays (sections of xbox 360 games for rent)

Arklow 1 Wallbay
Bray 1 Wallbay
Greystones 1
Enniscorthy 1 or more
Wexford 1, 1 wallbay
Wexford 2, half a wallbay
every other store = 1 wallbay.

That's all I have, the stock is due into stores this week, and will be received on like normal DVD rentals. So, in theory - the stuff should be available to rent after the weekend.*

Project mayhem, keep an eye on your voicemails this week and listen out for the message!

*Speculation. Seems like a reasonable timeframe though.

kaisersose77

did you hear anything about pricing yet?

fifth

Nah not a jot. I can only guess!

Fingers crossed it's reasonable. I'd say they'll charge the same.

If it was me I'd charge the same i.e:

€5.25 1 night
€6.50 2 nights
€7.50 3
€10.00 week

or
€6.75 1
€8.00 2
€9.00 3 nights
€12.00 week

Hard to call it.

fifth

Hello All,

Update! Rentals rolled out today, I have here proof of this and details:



Outer Box ^ (store name is whats blurred there)



Inside, Splinter Cell Double Agent disc and booklet. I rented it this evening.

Pricing remains the same as PS2 games. Limited selection right now:

Gears of war
PES6
Splinter cell
Test Drive
Ghost Recon Advanced warfighter
Godfather

etc. But it's a start!

Smellyirishman

funkyflea wrote:

Pricing remains the same as PS2 games.

Which is...this?

€5.25 1 night
€6.50 2 nights
€7.50 3
€10.00 week

Will check my local tomorrow, maybe tonight. Good stuff.

fifth

^ Yep that's it, so it seems for now anyway.

eirebhoy

Movie Star do game rentals if anyone wants to take their month trial and test out a load of games.

http://www.moviestar.ie/

fifth

Anyone had any luck getting any? Interesting to see if it has rolled out in all stores.

CarefulNow

Sweet. I will be into my local store tomorrow to rent Splinter Cell.

tvnutz

got them in our store today as well,same titles as flunkyflee mentioned. Id imagine they will roll out some more titles in the coming weeks/months. Tis a start anyway!

Kenny_D

Can you keep us updated funky as to what new games hit the shelves. My friend has a lot of those titles so I can get a lend from him

steviec

What stores are they in? I was in Xtravision Artane last night and there was no sign. Might have a look around tonight.

robinph

They had a few games for rental in the one beside the Penny Hill in Lucan but that one only opened in the last couple of weeks so it would have been daft for them not to have had them.

fifth

There are up to 15 titles available (more like 5 or 6 in most stores though). 24 will be available in january sometime.

There are conditions of rental though:
Firstly, the pricing is an introductory price and when Xtravision start buying newer titles the pricing may go up.
Also, you need to have the card with you, you can only rent 1 game at a time and you must have 5 rentals on your account with one of them being in the last 6 months.

Also, if you don't bring them back on time you have to be plagued with phonecalls every day until you do, lol. It's a bit strict unfortunately.

projectmayhem

got my 360 rentals in this week (nortsyde, shwar). decent enough selection i suppose, 2 rows filled up anyway...

tvnutz

funkyflea wrote:

There are up to 15 titles available (more like 5 or 6 in most stores though). 24 will be available in january sometime.

There are conditions of rental though:
Firstly, the pricing is an introductory price and when Xtravision start buying newer titles the pricing may go up.
Also, you need to have the card with you, you can only rent 1 game at a time and you must have 5 rentals on your account with one of them being in the last 6 months.

Also, if you don't bring them back on time you have to be plagued with phonecalls every day until you do, lol. It's a bit strict unfortunately.

ye we got the big list of conditions for staff in...I suppose at 60-75 quid a pop they don't want them to go missing! It is only select stores that will be renting them as well,bigger stores I would imagine.