Games pricing

mcwildcard

mcwildcard

mcwildcard

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Has anyone noticed that in the last 6 months or so, games don't seem to drop in price much at all?
Once upon a time you'd see games regulary drop below £20 within a few weeks, but atm you're lucky to see that in the first few months.
There are a few exceptions, such as Deux ex, but on the whole it seems there's been a very clear shift in the way games retailers go about discounting games.
It's across the board as well, almost as if they've all sat down together and decided between them to take this stance.
Which would have course be price fixing, and illegal...
 
I'm not sure I'd agree.
It depends entirely on the game and how it's selling and the time of the year.

The trend the past few years has been to release everything in November for the Xmas period. With such a huge number of games on the market, a lot of the lesser titles have to be given price drops quickly because they struggle against the AAAs, plus you've got the retailers all jousting for your business.

At this stage of the year, the big titles are few and far between, so there isn't much need for the retailers to drop their prices.
 
Final Fantasy XIII-2 was only out 3 weeks ago and is already down to £17.99 on 360 so I'd have to disagree with you there I'm afraid!
 
It all depends on the game. Very popular titles like Call of Duty keep their value while stuff like Rayman and Driver will drop in price quite quickly.

Pretty much exactly what Nexus said.
 
As above, Very few titles hold there value whilst others are half price within weeks of release.
 
I think the opposite OP!
Saw batman arkham city going for 12.99 at blockbustr. bought white knight chr 2 for 12.99 too. Though i dont buy new so much.
 
I've seen plenty of games come down in price pretty rapidly in the last while, I'll name a few:

King of Fighters XIII
Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3
Skyrim
Rage
Uncharted 3
etc etc

I can't think of many actually outside of the CoD series that hold their release price for long.
 
What you'll generally see is that games come down in price in offers and this week only offers in plces like Game and then they go back to full price. And some of these games being mentioned that were going cheap never actually sold well anyway so will have been reduced to cut losses.

It's retail common sense really
 
Call Of Duty is absolutely the worst offender for the price not dropping. I went into tesco a few weeks ago and they had Black Ops on "special" offer for £43 :eek:
 
Fifa holds it price until about 30 seconds before the launch of the next years game then - blam - in the 99p bin.
 
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