I always wait for the price drop unless I’m buying Nintendo. Nintendo games do not depreciate, and I do not know why. Do people like Mario THAT much?
Joshkaz
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Its because Nintendo’s games have staying power. They still sell a lot months after release while other games sales dwindle after the first month.
I would own more Nintendo games if they drop the price on them.
tataki
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IDK if Diablo 3 is a good example. Blizzard ripped off the player base.
“Sorry Mario, the patches this game needed badly are on another platform.”
Come to think of it I don’t think I even preordered a single game this year. This has been a really shitty year for games.
Femto_1
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It more has to do with Nintendo refusing to drop the prices. Sony and MS are companies with gaming as a division, where Nintendo is a gaming company so it’s more in their interest to set this precedent for their wares compared to the twins. Nintendo doesn’t budge, which sets the precedent of “Might as well get it now, since it’s not dropping in price anytime soon.”
The quick price drops devalue your produce and you can hear about it now when devs talk about not making money, or it’s hard to make money on, because everyone waits for sales, which will happen and at dirt cheap prices. Iwata talked about this at one of the GDC’s and got roasted for it at the time, but in the end he was right.
I pretty much only buy day one. Waiting for games to go on sale is completely pointless to me. I don’t even play all of the games I want to now so what is the point in adding to my backlog with even more games (even if they are $5) that i’ll never get around to. If I’m not excited enough for a game to pay $60 then I just except that I’ll probably never play it. There are too many titles being released for me to hope to keep up and that doesn’t even take into account all the of the free PS+ games.
Yeah, if I’m not excited to play when it drops, then there’s very little chance I’ll be bothered to play later down the line let alone buy. I’ll wait if two games release around the same time and I want to give myself the chance to focus on one if they’re single player experiences.
The irony of that was I was saying “The Cake Is a Lie” in 2013…blame Steam Portal sale and finally having a free evening to run through the first one. Still havne’t touched hte second one outside of the opening.
This is where I’ve gradually gone to. The ONLY exceptions are games that are ‘series’, for instance God of War or DmC, simply because I can get all the series at a ridiculously good price, an then play through them. When I was living by myself due to working out of state from family, I brought my PS3 down with me, I bought the first GoW, beat it and traded it in for the second GoW. Beat it and traded it in for the third one, went through the PSP offerings, then I started Assassain’s Creed (though per advice from RoninChaos and a few others I skipped the first one, don’t feel I missed much so thanks). Though it’s caught up to me as I’ve played AC3 Liberation on my Vita for maybe an hour or two, AC3 for maybe an hour or two, and I just bought AC4 for the Wii U as a sale at TRU ($12) only God knows when I’ll get to those titles.
I only buy fighting games and games by rockstar at launch. I might WWE2k15 this year at launch as well
Nay. I rent them through gamefly first and then if I like them, I buy it from GF at a discount. The last time I bought a game at launch was Wrestlemania 21 for the original Xbox and I got so freaking burned by that.
Capcom Fighting Jam was the first game I bought and took back to the shop the next day.
Raz0r
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This would have turned me off to all video games forever and ever.
I don’t remember squat about that game short of the T-Rex…what was so bad about it? I only rented it…
first day purchases only include games I know a lot of my buddies will be playing online or a MGS title, the rest can suck it
All I remember is the T-Rex and the Lion man; I remember taking it home, playing for a while and then being like “…yo this game is shit”. I was like 14 at the time so I can’t give you an opinion on how it was bad mechanically since I didn’t understand fighters the way I do now. It was just not fun to play and I had thoroughly enjoyed Capcom Fighters that came before it so I’m sure it’s not just me.
Rhio2k
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Anyone who was around in the psx era should know that wrestling and mma games are slow, boring, clunky pos games that are a ripoff even at 10 bucks.
MMA games are still slow boring clunky POS games, but back in the day the N64 had some supremely awesome wrestling games dude
N64 had the best wrastlin’ games.
