Price War?

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Today I was looking around town for Pro Evo 6 on Xbox 360 and like many other have seen HMV are selling PES6 @ £37.95. On closer inspection of the games section I noticed practically ALL Xbox 360 games were priced @ £40 or less. I first noticed HMV were up to something last week when I saw Splinter Cell: DA priced @ £39.95

Could this be the beginning of a permanent price drop for all Xbox 360 titles everywhere including eventually Game, Gamestation and the like? Or is this just a christmas price war?

I'm hoping the former.
 
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The Wii prices look lower than expected maybe its more to fend off that than reductions for christmas. If Wii games look to be £32.99 then they must edge the 360 prices down to atleast around £35????
 
That's a good point. But surely this would mean all shops would drop their price as it surely would have come from M$?
 
They aren't. I went to get dead rising from them on release and it was £49.99. Sure the majority of their 360 games are though. I'm talking more about the town/city centre shops.
 
RoB- said:
That's a good point. But surely this would mean all shops would drop their price as it surely would have come from M$?
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Yeah but some still take the pee. I wouldn't be surprised to see them lose a fiver over the next couple of months.
 
RoB- said:
They aren't. I went to get dead rising from them on release and it was £49.99. Sure the majority of their 360 games are though. I'm talking more about the town/city centre shops.
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They are in the swindon branch....

Heres a tip from an ex-employee....... purple shirts price match amazon/dabs.com. They just dont let anyone know about it. Go in with a print off of the product et voila.
 
Well I dunno about high street price wars, but gamplay.co.uk has just started putting a few games up for 37.99 - including Gears of War and Call of Duty 3. Who knows. I'm hoping my GoW pre-order gets reduced too.
 
And yet game still charge the full 50 for a 360 game. I think I will use game for a 10 day rental service from now on. I will buy the game from a different store instead. 10 pounds extra per game adds up fast.
 
MadFruit said:
Well I dunno about high street price wars, but gamplay.co.uk has just started putting a few games up for 37.99 - including Gears of War and Call of Duty 3. Who knows. I'm hoping my GoW pre-order gets reduced too.
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Shopto are selling for £36.99 or £37.99 so it seems they are sliding.
 
Game are changing their policy, so all new games will come sealed up, and you'll only be able to return them for a full refund if the seal is still on, or you can prove it doesn't work. Otherwise it'll just be a normal trade in.
 
Creature said:
Game are changing their policy, so all new games will come sealed up, and you'll only be able to return them for a full refund if the seal is still on, or you can prove it doesn't work. Otherwise it'll just be a normal trade in.
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Cant blame them really, too many people took the pee.
 
I think they will lose a lot of business that way, it's one of the only reasons I go there at all, they aren't exactly cheap and i've always seen full price games for £49.99.
 
but they do have good offers though, at least on PS2...

for example when Resi4 was £30 quid everywhere they did it for £19.99. similarly, with pro evo it was £19.99, and also Soul Calibre 3...

so when a game is NEW they do full price, after a month or so (when they have excess stock left) they dump em out cheap, you just have to be ready to wait and pay less..
 
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