Wasn’t there a time when you weren’t excited for a game and said “It’s not worth buy now I’ll get it when it gets cheaper” or when you go “let me go to that place and see what bargains that have”
Some games get cheap SO quickly while others stay at the same price to matter how much time has passed. I’ll tell you the little secret behind this.
The first way for price cuts is when the publisher decides to cut the price of the game. Reason: To increase profit and drive more people to buy the game. Examples: EA cuts the prices of its sports games like Madden NFL. That, I didn’t know.
The second way that we all know is when the retailers decide to drop the price when the game is not selling well and they want to get rid of it, mostly to make space for newer games. And that is also the reason why we don’t see price cuts on digitalized games like PSN and XBLA games (Steam being an exception, because they have sales every now and then!)
Source
Michael Pachter
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-203-pach-attack/709821 I love his show :D
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to bad we don’t get price drop in Kuwait … i was planing to buy Luigi’s Mansion for the GameCube before 1 year ago and it was still 18 K.D … WHY ? no one else want it now
:(
there is one way to get a price drop in Kuwait, Plant TNT charges in the fundementals of Alrehab Complex and fire 4 RPG’s on Key structural points on that building to take it down!
No Alrehab complex = No Game’s Mafia = All happy in Kuwait :D
that extreme :P
STEAM is the ANSWER! digital downloads = Re7ab DOOMED!
…………………………….. And STEAM too :P (Forgot about it lol)
Steam is too awesome. It feels fair to use and enjoy rather than getting ripped-off just because of availability of certain games.
Thank God for this.
yup thank god