Ownership of gaming system has network effects children are more interested in owning a system if their friends have it, so that they can swap games.
Now there's another: Jiggster, which has launched its app in beta to buy, sell or swap games that you've finished with.
You can swap games or play music when the lid is closed, and an audio mixer lets you mash up sounds.
Players do not want to have to re-configure their set-up every time they swap games.
Jessica Ratcliffe was a young girl of 15 when she came up with an idea for a web site where gamers could swap games in a way that made the transaction fair and kept costs low.
My cousin had an NES, too, and she'd swap games with me regularly: I'd give her Super Mario Bros., she'd give me Zelda II.
It was with these guys who I'd swap games and brag about high scores with the closest NES was several streets away, practically halfway to school, and it was a rare day I visited there.
It's very similar to the 3DS StreetPass concept, which automatically swaps game data between consoles as players pass in the street.
Then his girlfriend told him that they were not going over for boardgames and wine because, in that couple's special code, "boardgames and wine" as some sort of weird partner swapping game involving lots of booze.
Swapping video games can save money for all participants; especially when you can swap and trade games that you no longer wish to play.
