ugh, good lord why would you even want Wild Arms 3?  lol, jk

True, Gamestop will always have a better selection, at least of used games.  I think long run Gamestop is going to run into problems though.  Next generation I think Digital Distribution is going to be huge.  It may not be the exclusive form of getting your games (but I think at least one console will do it that way) but it should hit Gamestop's bottom line pretty hard next gen.  I give Gamestop another 10 years, unless they reinvent themselves into a different kind of company.

I own Wild Arms 3 and its not very good.

Onyxmeth said:

Gamestop doesn't lose much profit actually. They merely take the games in at maybe $8 and they make $12 per used sale, and with such low trade in value, they'll likely not have to sell many at that price at all. Normally week one they would give like $25 and resell for $55, so they lose like $18 per used sale, but trade ins for the title would be low because no one would trade in something like MW2 for $8. It's a single title, not every game in existence. It would be small potatoes. They still get to makem like $10 or so on every new copy of MW2 they sell and that will be the big potatoes at first. Meanwhile Best Buy is making absolutely no money on this big title starting first week, and would be losing approximately $30 per every sale. That is a real hit.

The problem is, who budges first? I say Best Buy because they can go in the hole if GS plays nasty enough. All GS has to worry about is lowered used game sales. They still have their accessory sales. They have their new game sales. They still have smaller profits coming in from used games. It's still a winning scenario for them. Meanwhile they push Best Buy into losing monsterously on every game they sell if GS sees fit to do so.

@mibuokami-If Best Buy does it like that, I could see a lot of arguments from customers since it's not on the sign. Normally these kinds of price adjustments are based on advertisers' catalogues, or in this case, just the price list. A customer could just keep asking Best Buy to call Gamestop after Gamestop looking for a used copy, and there are a lot of Gamestops. A lot.

In Australia, some store will offer price match but only if they can prove that the local competitor has to product your quoting in stock (they would literally ring the competitor and ask for availibility). Would a similiar scheme be consider reasonable for BestBuy? Afterall advertising a second hand game for $20 is a lot different than having a copy at $20 for sale