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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)
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[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

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 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Japanese people use CDs quite a bit still.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980.

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