BrotherRool said:
Lee Quitt said:
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo give the retailers the console bundles and pretty much set the prices. I work at EB Games Australia this is how it works. The retailer can try to add low cost items but it comes out of its pocket.
Also regarding your "xbone" comment I have sold more Xbox Ones in the last month then I have Wii U's, ever.
Finally regarding the guy who was complaining about Silent hill being more expensive in a GAME store then online, Really dude? Is it not self explanatory why that is the case? I'm not sure what wages are like in England but that is where your $15 is going, also rent, electricity ect.
If that were the case, then how come all the other retailers (including Sony) are selling the bundle 50 pounds cheaper than game? If you go to Argos you can buy it for the same price it is on the Sony site and Amazon etc.
And I would say it's pretty normal for stores (at least in the UK) to sell games as cheaply if not more cheaply than online (with the exception of buying a physical product on Amazon). I'm pretty sure I've had international friends who noted the same thing, because people tend to think that Steam defaults to a cheaper price, when actually it's just PCs games are cheaper because they don't pay platform royalties. If you go to a physical store the PCs games will normally be the same price or cheaper than they are on Steam
Ok I'll start with you second point. Steam has nothing to do with the above equation, the original post was talking about how a new copy of racoon/silent hill was cheaper to buy new (physical) online then a pre owned copy in store. He w
BrotherRool said:
Lee Quitt said:
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo give the retailers the console bundles and pretty much set the prices. I work at EB Games Australia this is how it works. The retailer can try to add low cost items but it comes out of its pocket.
Also regarding your "xbone" comment I have sold more Xbox Ones in the last month then I have Wii U's, ever.
Finally regarding the guy who was complaining about Silent hill being more expensive in a GAME store then online, Really dude? Is it not self explanatory why that is the case? I'm not sure what wages are like in England but that is where your $15 is going, also rent, electricity ect.
If that were the case, then how come all the other retailers (including Sony) are selling the bundle 50 pounds cheaper than game? If you go to Argos you can buy it for the same price it is on the Sony site and Amazon etc.
And I would say it's pretty normal for stores (at least in the UK) to sell games as cheaply if not more cheaply than online (with the exception of buying a physical product on Amazon). I'm pretty sure I've had international friends who noted the same thing, because people tend to think that Steam defaults to a cheaper price, when actually it's just PCs games are cheaper because they don't pay platform royalties. If you go to a physical store the PCs games will normally be the same price or cheaper than they are on Steam
Ill start with the second point. The person i was replying to was talking about an physical copy bought online, not a digital copy bought online. Your point about steam would be valid, if that is what we were talking about. Besides compering a used console game price to a digital steam game would not be a valid one to one comparison given the platform difference.
Now about the price difference between retailers, As a general rule retailers do not make money off consoles, at least not the sale of the unit itself. Generally per unit they may be lucky to make $10 if that. Now some retailers choose to actively LOOSE money every sale, often as whats called a loss leader, to get you into the store and buying other high margin products.
Now if Sony were to be selling their own product either online or from 1st party Sony stores they would also have a greater margin of profit to cut into allowing them to sell for less, particularly if the choose to loss lead.
Finally Amazon. Being a online store selling vast numbers of products this enables them to be in a unique position, they can buy huge amounts of stock from Sony and cutting out any retail cost can sell at a undercut price, however still be a small amount of money per unit.
GAME might be some kind of super bad/evil/horrible UK retailer, i don't know, but like EB and GAMESTOP they dont make money selling consoles, no specialist game retailer does or really ever has. They are not aritfically upping the price of their consoles to be con artists/dicks. Every store wants to sell you a PS4 not to make money off that unit, but to make money off every game/controller/headset that you will buy from that store afterword, its been proven that you are more likely to back to that retailer if you bought the console from them.
