Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii / "New" 3DS / Nintendo Switch)

Because when gamestop did it before (persona games, mega man collections), they didn't up the used price to almost 2X the MSRP.
Shit was $20-30. Often quite a bit less than the eBay norm.
Now, Gamestop has done the smart thing and said "fuck you ebay flippers, we are going to sell this shit for what it's been selling for. Sorry, we are going to be the ones profiting this time."
Is it shitty? I don't think so.
The only people who are pissed off are the ones that hoped to one day get the game for peanuts or the ones who were looking for a quick flip.
Today's lesson is, you snooze, you lose.

But not really. I often wait for games to hit rock bottom prices before I buy them, because they usually will. Even though I paid full price for Xenoblade Chronicles, that was because I wanted to send a message that nintendo should bring over these games. But on the whole, I save a lot of money waiting for things to hit $20. More than enough to make up for the couple of games that never do and end up getting expensive. 10 $20 games + 2 $100 games is cheaper than 12 $60 games.
If you know how to work the system, you can get this $90 game for $68. That's not a bad price for something that a few months ago was fetching almost twice that.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Even though I paid full price for Xenoblade Chronicles, that was because I wanted to send a message that nintendo should bring over these games.

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This is where it gets tricky for me, caught between, "I want them to know that there are those of us who want actual good games on Nintendo consoles," and, "Jesus Christ is NOA far and away the shittiest branch of their company and I don't want to give them money for the way they fucked up handling this entire debacle right down to the shitty distribution. If I could find a way around shipping costs I'd rather just support Europe from here on out."

NoE has really woken up and improved things there a lot, meanwhile NoA just gets more retarded in their decision making.

Kotaku is reporting on this here.

Just to be clear- Gamestop is right to sell Xenoblade for the market price. $90 is what it's going for? Fair enough, $90 it is. Gutting new copies and selling them used is the retarded bit.

James

To sell them for $90 new would be to cop to the Print 'n' Gouge, though. Selling used, they don't forfeit the pretense of just findin' a box fulla ol' Zeemo Blades in the back.

The jig is up now, but I think that was probably their line of thought.

$90 for a game that has been going for $100-$150 is a good deal.

If I really wanted Xenoblade, I would spend it.

It's a pretty great game!

So would everyone be happier if they said, "hey, we reprinted some of these, and you can have sealed copies for the low, low price of $200 like everyone else has been selling them for"?

No matter what, it's weird that they would open them up and call them used if it does end up being a reprint, which all signs point to. They're not just selling it at a higher price, there's deviousness involved.