I'm well aware that their prices are high, but the reality is that largely that's in comparison to online retailers. As I've said time and again, just because many of us on these forums buy our games online, we are not the majority.
Their only real competition at high-street level are Supermarkets who really sell games as a matter of convenience in that you are already in the store, with everything in one place. They don't tend to offer most games at a better price point than Game.
When the Supermarkets have run good deals on games, backed up by advertising, they are deliberately targeting the Gamer demographic to get them through the doors. If Game went, do you really think they would need to bother running promotions like that so much?
Also what's not to say that if games start to disappear from the High-Street shops, leaving people no choice to buy online, that online prices may start to creep up.
Think youre deluding yourself - they are as expensive, if not the most expensive against the high street/supermarket before you even consider online pricing.
Remind me as a comparison the pricing of the games @ GAME that Supermarkets used as loss leaders to increase footfall, were they even close? As this is obviously a shop that solely deals with gaming, you would assume they were be leading such game sales - have they been consistently? And if they havent, why have Supermarkets been doing such loss leaders anyway, is it actually anything to do with GAME in reality or more to do with Supermarket price wars?
I dont disagree with the argument that that prices may remain high or go higher (well the standard deviation may skew higher) after GAME goes, but to infer that because of GAME they remain as 'cheap' as they are is downright silly; and to then attempt to defend their practises in duping people that cant/wont/dont know about online shopping amazes me.
If someone goes to GAME and buys a new release at £42.99, they still be able to buy that new release at £42.99 at another physical location once GAME have gone, unless you now want to suggest publishers will increase RRP based on GAME going so normal editions of games can be over £45, just because GAME dont exist anymore...
GAME the peoples champion at ripping novice gamers off - bravo (slow hand clap)...
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