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Depends, if you are talking Nintendo games, then buying them at launch makes sense. Nintendo games hold their MSRP for an absurd amount of time. Other games not so much. Personally with Fighting games and RPGs, I tend to get them at launch. Hopping into a fight game late when everyone has been playing for months or years is a slog. You'll run into players that already know the game and the match ups. When you get the game at launch, everyone is figuring things out along with you. With RPGs, I enjoy them more if the story hasn't been spoiled and avoiding those while using the internet is exceedingly difficult.