I was looking back through all of our old sales threads and I noticed we have about 100 different versions of this - so I'm just going to make this the official one.
Personally, I'm always curious to hear about what people's experiences buying games, and I'm sure many of you are as well.
I'll try to update what I see every week, and you all can as well.
For the week of the 20th to the 26th -
The other day I went to the mall stores (Gamestop, F.Y.E. and the nearby Walmart) to buy my room mate a new game for his birthday. He loves multiplayer Xbox 360 games, but the Gamestop was out of the Xbox 360 versions of Rockband and Guitar Hero, and he already has Halo 3. So I asked about around for Call of Duty 4, and the game was sold out as well at Gamestop. Over at FYE, all of the big music games were sold out. But, they had Call of Duty 4 - for $66...they overcharge for everything. According to the people at both those stores the game tends to sell very well when new Xbox 360 shipments come in, but not that well otherwise. I brieftly flirted with getting my room mate Mass Effect, but instead I just left the FYE as a new shipment of Wiis was being unloaded (and sold).
Heading over to Walmart, there was a line of people waiting (in the store) to buy Wiis and 360s, with a small stack of PS3s behind the glass shelves. Didn't notice any DS or PSP hardware. But I did see Call of Duty 4, so I grabbed it, paid, and left.
So those are my retail musings - low stock at Gamestores, FYE and Walmart seem to have gotten recent shipments.
What have you guys observed lately?
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
When there are more laws, there are more criminals.
- Lao Tzu
