Fearing competition from stores that rent video games for home use, owners of stores that sell video games lobbied for protective legislation
Citing as a precedent legislation that postpones home film rentals until one year after general release to theaters, the video sellers proposed as an equitable solution a plan that would postpone rental of any video game until it had been available for sale for one year
Although the daily rental fee for home use of films is generally the same as that for video games, the average rental period for a video game is longer than that for a film.