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Forums - Sales Discussion - Forced Wii bundles: An independent game store's perspective

Stats87 on 20 December 2007

 
JMan said:
Yeah, but this is absolute BS:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2967682

$700 for an absolutely craptastic bundle. Sorry, absolutely NO EXCUSE for that. At the very least, we should get to pick the games. "Wii: $250 with a 3 Wii Game purchase" would be better. What does the store care if it is going to be sold on ebay, the store gets the same amount of money either way.


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Zak and Wiki (great!)

Geometry Wars (good) 

Rayman:Raving Rabids (could be fun for a bit)

Soul Calibur:Legends (ugh)

 the rest (double ugh)



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tabsina on 20 December 2007
JMan said:
Yeah, but this is absolute BS:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2967682

$700 for an absolutely craptastic bundle. Sorry, absolutely NO EXCUSE for that. At the very least, we should get to pick the games. "Wii: $250 with a 3 Wii Game purchase" would be better. What does the store care if it is going to be sold on ebay, the store gets the same amount of money either way.

speaking from a business side of things, you wouldn't let people get the good/great games with the bundle, because even though they get the same amount of money from the bundle no matter what, it would mean that the customer wouldn't need to go back to buy those good/great games

i don't think its right of them though

 

 



Picko on 20 December 2007

Of course none of this would be a problem if there wasn't restriction on price that didn't enable price to rise so that demand equals supply. In absurd situations like this one must necessarily blame the producer, Nintendo.

If I was the retailer I would simply buy the Wii and immediately sell it on ebay at a massive mark-up.

Anyway, this is a delightful example as to why interfering in market forces can often be bad.



 
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FireWater on 20 December 2007

Yeah Toys R Us is definitely using the Wii's demand for exploitative purposes.

They are selling mostly poorly selling titles (regardless of quality) they probably have to move their inventory.

Usually they are pretty good, but this is pretty bad what they are doing.



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mrstickball on 21 December 2007

The reason he complains about not getting Wiis, despite losing cash on them is software.

No hardware sales = no bundles = no software revenue.

Sucks that they are forcing him to buy bundled software with the Wii. I wonder what his comments for the X360/PS3 are?



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thetonestarr on 21 December 2007

mrstickball, your first statement is very appropriate and true. You can't sell software at a high enough rate to keep open if you don't also sell hardware. Additionally, indie stores usually get more core and hardcore gamers, or people just looking for a hard-to-find system. Most (more casual) people stick to the larger chains for their everyday game purchasing, so these indie stores lose out a lot.

The second (about forcing HIM) is incorrect. He's talking about why HE forces CUSTOMERS to purchase games in bundles because it's the only way he can make a decent profit off of selling games and actually keep his business running.



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