Redbox launches $2 per day video game rental service

By on Jun 17, 2011 at 9:45 PM
Gaming June 17, 2011

Redbox on Friday added game rentals to its arsenal at rental kiosks across the country. Video game rentals had previously been available for some time at approximately 5,000 Redbox kiosks spread throughout the U.S. in a beta phase. Now, Redbox is adding video games to another 16,000 kiosks this month, though it is not clear if or when Redbox plans to add games to the remaining 6,000 kiosks it owns and operates. Popular video game titles for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation and Nintendo’s Wii consoles will cost $2 per day to rent, and the procedure works just like movie rentals — titles can be rented indefinitely and Redbox will keep charging its daily rate until the title is returned. If a title is kept for 25 days, a one-time fee is charged ($25 for DVDs, $34.50 for Blu-ray Discs and $50 for video games) and the disc no longer needs to be returned.

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  • Anonymous

    Might check this out, but $2 but kinda seems much, but expect. Also, if you just ‘rent’ and keep a game from RedBox thats brand new for systems like the 360 and PS3, it’s cheaper than actually buying the game. :P

    • Stephen Peters

      I don’t think that’s right. It would turn out to be $100 for a game. Two dollars a day for 25 days plus another $50 charge.

      • Anonymous

        Are you sure? I think after 25 days you own it and then they charge you the $50 just for the added up days. I’m not sure if there’s an added on fee, it says a “one-time fee” in the article.

      • Stephen Peters

        I’m not sure, either. I would assume that it’s much like a Blockbuster pricing model.  You pay for the time it’s out and then if the game is not returned within a certain amount of time (e.g. 25 days) they charge you an additional fee. But what do I know.

      • Corymcnutt

        I think you are correct…$50 total. 

      • Anonymous

        I actually called red box and asked this question. You end up paying around 100 bucks.

      • Corey Washington

        I have used redbox many times and have a very forgetful girlfriend who has lost a dvd or two of mine. They do charge you for whatever you kept after 25 days. i.e. 25day rental + cost of dvd = 40 or 45, can’t remember.

      • Nope

        Guys, read the article.

        “…Redbox will keep charging its daily rate until the title is returned. If a title is kept for 25 days, a one-time fee is charged ($25 for DVDs, $34.50 for Blu-ray Discs and $50 for video games) and the disc no longer needs to be returned.”

        Daily rate for $25 days, then a one-time fee of $50. Total, $100.

      • Corymcnutt

        Why do people whine all the time about “that’s not fair!”  Return it and it costs you $2, period.  If the rules are laid out ahead of time, we need to follow them, or pay the consequences…just saying!

      • Anonymous

        I wonder what happens if you rent it on your visa, cancel the visa and keep the game. lol

      • Dave1234

        This will be great for shorter games. You can finish seine games in 8 hours. That could be 3 days.

      • GodOSpoons

        You could finish Homefront for fifty cents!

    • Anonymous

      It’s a nice way to demo a game you are uncertain about buying.  Rent it for a day or two and if you like it then you can feel comfortable buying it.  If you didn’t like the game then you are only out a few dollars instead of $60.

  • SJOBS

    WOW. that chick is HOT! :)

    • invid

      She is hot, even allowing for her oddly large head.

      • TD

        It’s the angle of the picture… 

      • Anonymous

        bwahaha, i was waiting for someone else to think the same thing. i welcome our large-headed hot blonde overlords

    • serpentor

      meh, typical dumb blonde. Looks like she thinks the smaller touch screen on the right is mirroring the bigger “screen” on the left.

    • http://www.facebook.com/tortillaman Nicholas Guyadeen

      Makes me want to rent from RedBox

  • luke

    That Girl is Hot!! Someone had to say it!! :)

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

      Is every girl on the interwebs hot?!?!

    • Matt Haney

      Can I rent HER for $2 a day??

  • Kroz

    This is such a scam. The $2 fee is so appealing but who plays a game for 1 day? Before you know it you’d have paid $20 – $50 on one game that you might not even have had a chance to play. GameFly is way more better than this, i don’t use it anymore because i don’t have the time but at least with gamefly, if you keep the movie they charge you like $19.. I can’t believe anyone would think this is a great idea..

    • Anonymous

      It’s better as a means of demoing a game before you buy.  Play it for a day or two then if you decide you don’t like it then you wasting a few dollars instead of $60.

  • Tyler Durden

    Forget the Redbox! I’d like to see that girls Pinkbox! Yeah, I said it. 

    • life

      im guessing you just got out of jail…

      • TD

        Nope. I just love the pink taco. 

        On a side note, what did my previous comment have to do with me possibly getting out of jail? I don’t understand the context of your reply in relation to my wordplay involving Redbox and Pinkbox.

  • http://www.vgchartz.com SuperChunk

    Sweet. Best way to test the game out. Or beat it if you have the time and its short.

  • Walter0

    So wait if I chose to keep it, I’ll pay $50 for a 360 game that might be worth $60? Is no one else seeing the awesomeness in that?

    • Cer

      The game you’d be buying for $50 isn’t new. So it makes sense. You’d be buying a used game.

    • sirpaul

      $50 plus the $50 one time fee – adds to 100.

  • Max

    I heard you can buy a BB Bold for $2 from a Redbox. True?

    • Anonymous

      MAJOR FAILAGE

  • Malenurseintraining

    You don’t pay 100 bucks for the game if you don’t return it. Redbox doesn’t charge your account until you actually return it. Hit past the 25 day mark, automatically charged 50, not 100.

  • Anonymous

    Brilliant in its simplicity and value to the end user!

  • Anonymous

    Rented black ops on Friday from the red box…..I like the set up.

  • Anonymous

    W…T…F…? The Legend of Zelda cartoon at a Redbox? Weird.

  • http://profiles.google.com/youngspade8 Sean Jackson

    Sounds good to me. If you think about it quickly, 2 bucks a day is kind of high for the “average” gamer. However, if you’re down for the summer or weekend (as I am right now), getting a game for 2 bucks and playing it all day/night and beating it isn’t that bad. 

    This kind of takes out multiplayer games though; I’d love to rent Portal 2, Skyrim, etc. over a few days and take them back. 

  • Scott

    Seems high, Family Video rents games for 5 days for $6 or $7.

  • RipRock81

    This is OLD news! I saw this at a RedBox kiosk in Florida last summer….

  • http://twitter.com/ProExodus Clarence J.

    Can we get a new article please? Its been two days already hahaha

  • Anonymous

    This is perfect! now i can switch out all my scratched games.. YA I FUCK THE SYSTEM

    • Jon

      Do you plan on removing the barcode and reapplying it to your scratched games? I don’t forsee that working well, but I admire your ambition.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YOZKW4BDQLQLVWM56GVM4KIFLA John Roth

    I have used redbox many times and have a very forgetful girlfriend who has lost a dvd or two of mine. They do charge you for whatever you kept after 25 days. i.e. 25day rental + cost of dvd = 40 or 45, can’t remember. I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, BidsGet. com

  • http://twitter.com/miggyequalsrad Miguel J. Aguilar

    too bad my RedBox, didn’t have quite the selection. Only 4 PS3 games.

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