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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Japanese people use CDs quite a bit still.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

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