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
A slight decline in revenues from films that have been recently released in theaters has been attributed to the growing market for rentals of films for home use.