You'd be wrong to doubt it, Ail, and so is everyone else. While the retailers can take as much as 20% of the cost of a new game, that's not enough to cover opperating expenses. If it were, GameStop would carry new games instead of forcing people into this "preorder or forget it" mentality they like, and they wouldn't be so focused on selling you their off-brand memory cards, magazine subscriptions, and the almighty used game. They do get massive markups in some of those areas, and it's by selling $20 memory cards at $50 and $40 controllers at $60 along with $10 trade-ins for $25 that they make their money. Or, if they are a big box (say, BestBuy), they make it by selling other stuff, such as a nice, new HDTV to go with that PS3/360.
You do not have the right to never be offended.
