Statistics for PS3 New IP Million Sellers

[mjk45]

Galaki said:

mjk45 said:
To all those mentioning sales discounting it doesn't worry Sony and other publishers if retail discounts the games down the track since they sell the games at a upfront wholesale price and doesn't really matter if all or half the stock is sold at RRP since they have had their cut .

Are you saying, retailers paying Sony full price just to sell to customers at a deep discount? Okay...

No what I'm saying is retailer's order there stock from the distributor , in the case of my local EB games store head office orders a certain amount of a game then they hold them at a warehouse then the store orders theirs from there once head office have done the orders , for where I live they do it for all stores state wide maybe even nationwide not sure , the pricing sales etc are set by them as well .  Publisher gets paid per game ordered from the distributor and they from the retailer .its why you often hear on here talk about shipped versus sold and why shipped is what the publisher cares about since he gets paid upfront or sometimes like what happened with GAME UK before going into liquidation they basically got stock from EA and other  3rd party publisher on a loan.