Now that's good news! Hopefully BigW will do the usual and try to better that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gutsman Heavy
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Now that's good news! Hopefully BigW will do the usual and try to better that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gutsman Heavy
BigW prices.
Xbox - $63
PS3 - $63
Wii - $59
3DS - $49
DS - $39 (both versions)
It's good to see that there is an alternative to JB and EB for those wanting to pick up a copy locally. It sort of begs the questions - why the massive difference??? It just highlights how some big companies try to rip us off.
You'd be surprised at how little mark up is in games for most retailers. My partner for example, works in receiving at a Harvey Norman store and gets to see what the distributor charges the retailers. The margin is jack all by the time you ad GST, and most of the time BigW's launch day pricing is $10-$20 below the COST of the product for smaller stores like harvey norman or other franchised stores like Gametraders.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
It's true that BigW and Kmart's national buying power is massive, but I'd bet they are still making a loss on new release games, which they can afford to do because other areas in the store that profit more are used to subsidize the loss in software.
Retailers aren't trying to rip anyone off, they're basically just trying not to make a loss. If the added benefits of our stronger dollar are going anywhere, it's into the pockets of the distributors unfortunately.
In this case, I think I'll just pay the extra $10 over importing to buy the game at BigW.
That's why %-off sales usually exclude games and consoles, due to the small profit margin. But they make their money through the turn-over of sales though and peripheral items.
That $10 you pay is well worth it cos you would have finished the game by the time it arrives from the UK!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shirokaze
Seems to have been delayed somewhat...?
EB Games is showing a release date of July now, exact date unspecified. Certainly not in any shops I went to. Bit crap considering we were getting it 2 weeks later than the US as it was.
I was only going to be renting it anyway, or grabbing it from the cheap bin in 6 months time.
...and then I went down to Video Ezy to take some doovde back, and there it was. How very odd.
So far seems pretty much like a decent mod of WFC, which was a pretty safe route to take. They didn't even bother to change some of the sound effects and graphics.
EB are just hopeless. The game was at both Big W and Kmart in my area for a MUCH cheaper price. I picked it up, pretty fun game if you get over the fact it's just WFC re-skinned. Mirage, Ironhide, Soundwave and Lazerbeak are really fun to play as. I can't get online for some reason though, and other Aussies who bought the game are reporting the same. I suspect it's the same problem we had with WFC... High Moon Studios realy need to get off their asses and do something about this.
So if you have WFC this one isn't really worth getting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sutton