14 DAY TRIAL // Game Trading Technologies, Inc., a provider of trading solutions for video game retailers, publishers, rental companies and consumers has just announced the development of an iPhone application, that allows video game players to build, value, manage, and trade their personal video game software collections.
Even though it hasn't been released yet, the iPhone application named "GameBook Mobile" promises to allow users to input and manage their entire collection of video games and systems. The application uses the company's proprietary "GFI Gamebook", a market valuation technology that prices over 10,000 pre-owned video games quickly and accurately in real time.
"There exists pricing and demand volatility in the market for pre-owned video games and gaming systems. We have specifically designed GameBook Mobile for those millions of video gaming consumers so that they are able to make timely, well informed trade-in decisions for every title, system, and accessory they own," says Todd Hays, President Game Trading Technologies, Inc.
GameBook Mobile for the iPhone will initially consist of six unique features including: Value My Games/Collection, Scan My UPC, Trade Trend Key, Trade-O-Meter, Want List and Store Locator. Value My Games/Collection feature enables the user to search for games by platform, title and UPC code. The Scan My UPC tool uses Apple's powerful iPhone camera hardware to take a picture of the UPC barcode on the back of any game, thus enabling the user to add the games to their iPhone game collection with just a few clicks.
The Trade Trend Key feature will display a symbol informing the user if the market value of a game or the user's entire collection is trending up quickly, up slowly, stable, down quickly or down slowly. The Want List obviously enables users to add video games they may want to purchase or trade for in the future.
Further, with the help of Store Locator feature, users will be able to locate the nearest trade center partner where they can buy or trade some or all of their video games. The application uses the iPhone's built-in GPS software to specify the location of trade-in partners.