It's OK when Sony does it

It's OK when Sony does it

It's Auver...

It isn't though, you FARKING DOOG

deposit to buy a video game

lul what

But that's still cheaper than MKW?

You're not supposed to post that!

they need to make sure you're willing to buy something so expensive

eb games is dead

It actually isn't. For some weird reason, Aussie and NZ didn't get fucked with game pricing like Europe and America did. Or maybe we were always getting fucked and by comparison we won't notice.
The price of the console is obscene, though.

somehow the switch is significantly cheaper in aussie than it is in canada

Here's the NZ price for Death Stranding 2, you dumb fuck.

That's EB kikery, dishonest faggots.

JB Hi-Fi always undercuts the RRP. You are again being disingenuous.

Versus Mario Kart, scurry back to your hole now

eb

use bigw you faggot

and yet Mario is still more dishonest Tendie

BTW must suck being a Tendie in NZ. Do you dialite every day like you are supposed to?

That's new Zealand you giga faggot

I swear to god PS3 were $130AUD at one point. Or was that PS4?

Why are Australians such cucks?

They're BOTH New Zealand prices, you coping Tendie. Here is another prominent gaming site, Mighty Ape, selling MK for more than DS2
Back to your hole

I knew a dude that worked at JB Hi-Fi once and he said they sold The Last of Us for less than it actually cost them to buy. It's part of JB's strategy. Using a loss leader as an example pretty much shows this moron has room temperature IQ.

Btfo Tendies and their lying somehow makes me a Tendie.

You faggots are brain damaged

Ok now lets hear the cope for literally every other store selling DS2 for less than MKW?

That's like pointing at reddit and asking why americans are such cucks

JB sell games as a loss leader, you moron. It's part of their "Always cheaper" mentality. The idea is you go "Oh, JB is a good deal. I won't shop around when I buy a 4K TV or an iPad." I've bought shit cheaper at Noel Leeming.
It's like booze in supermarkets. Not that I'd expect you to understand as you're clearly 15.

Answer my question nigger. EB is the ONLY store selling at these prices in NZ

This is versus
Same store

ps5 games dont have shittier ground textures than fucking neptunia

Doesn't understand loss leader, doesn't understand RRP, doesn't understand why you can take a hit on games the most popular console in NZ.

You have to be 18+ to post of this board, and you also need an IQ above 18 as well.
Post the PSN price, you fucking faggot. Oh, wait, you won't, because that'll break your narrative.

Why is Death Stranding reduced far more than Mario Kart compared to EB's games? Shouldn't they be reduced by the same amount?

I will, though.

Please explain

So you openly admit that OP wasn't Sony's doing? Glad to hear it. Also deserve to be price gouged if you buy digital

I used to work at Central Park (look it up) back in the day, and one of the perks was games at cost plus GST. It generally only worked out to be 10 Kiwi bucks off. The margins on these games are slim. Sometimes we'd sell stuff for cheaper than we bought it, so the perk was actually useless. We did this with some rugby game back in 2003. I asked why and they said "When people think you're the best deal, they'll always come back without question."
Also, random fun fact: I sold Matthew Lillard and Xbox with Hitman. He'd brought his console across while filming something, and it didn't work because this was back in the PAL/NSTC days. So the chad just bought the whole console and game again. Motherfucker is really tall. He was wearing a Scooby Doo jacket, and I asked him (as general chit chat while ringing it up) how it was to film it. He said it was hard without an actual dog there.

is this from the official sony store? what the fuck is with that price

So basically they know they can get away with selling MK for more?

This is why poo peeland shouldn't be allowed to have their own currency

the ps2 was a DVD player when they were expensive. same with ps3 with the bluray. at least is something extra.

Poo poo peeland

This is Australia and NewZealand we're talking about, not Canada

Sony gouges in NZ. It's why physical is still king. No one pays EB prices because you just price match JB Hi-Fi. An EB employee once told me they don't care because they go back to the distributor to claw back the difference.
PSN is great for sales, but only a moron would buy a new release there when you can get it up to 30% off due to JB's loss leader tactics.
I sometimes worry that JB will bail on NZ, because they're basically the ones keeping prices reasonable. Mighty Ape do similar but it requires a subscription. The Warehouse often does cheaper shit, but they don't carry R18 games because the CEO was a religious nut.
But to put it into perspective, Sony is so popular in NZ that often distributors won't even bring Xbox copies into the country. Wild Hearts is an example of this. It's a PlayStation nation, which is why it's easy to make games loss leaders like booze is in supermarkets. The another anon doesn't understand this because he's still in intermediate school.

It's actually cheaper than the normal PS5 game price in UK.

Usually £69.99 but this game is £62.99.

All this to say he's mad he got btfo

:)

Yeah EB fucking sucks. People only use it to trade shit in and they always rip people off who do that.
Admittedly they do have some very good sales occasionally, I just bought a brand new copy of Bayonetta 3 for $10 and the Romancing Saga 2 remake for $15 a week or two ago.

Why wont you answer my question of why JB discounted DS2 more than MKW?

Because MKW will sell at that price and DS2 wont

au

lol

It's as if people think it's ok when Nintendo does it, but wont when Sony tries it... Interesting.....

It probably just comes down to risk. You know you've got a legion of PlayStation fans in the country that will always go to you, sometimes without questioning. (JB isn't always cheaper. Noel Leeming was once doing TLOU2 Remake for 58NZD versus 90ish at JB.) And even I fall for this, sometimes. If I'm looking for a game, I check JB first.
The Switch 2 is an unknown quantity as no one has it yet.
It tends to be two or three retailers keeping each other in check. Here's Stellar Blade. It's still $139.99 on PSN outside of sales.

does that mean sony can never price something this high cause no one wants it?

Means no one is willing to pay for that. Versus Nintendo consumers who are fine with paying whatever they're told to.

But with this argument, it would make sense to make the "less popular" title cheaper to get more sales?

They did this last gen with the switch as well. MK8 and BOTW were more expensive than the other switch games.
Because people will pay extra for Mario Kart. If you raise the price too high on something like DS2 (which people expect to see in the bargain bin within a year judging by the last DS release) then no one will buy it.

And I think it's worth mentioning but the resell value of Nintendo first party titles are much higher than almost everything else,

why won't their fans find value in Sony games?

They're just smarter and know when they're being fleeced by a company.

why pay the price when you can watch it on youtube for free

The resell is higher purely because Nintendo refuses to put these games on sale. It tricks retards into thinking it's a superior product cause they pay more

No, popularity matters. Why was it a rugby game that we chose to make as a loss leader and not Wild Arms 3? It's the same reason Export Gold is always on special and not some artisan craft beer. You're trying to tell the biggest consumer base that you are the cheapest and get them to stop thinking when their steak is $3 more than the supermarket down the road. The Switch 2 is an unknown quantity, so why take the margin hit when you don't know if it will pay off?
Again, JB take the hit because when I go into buy a TV or a phone or a vinyl record, they are expecting me not to shop around. I found a local vinyl store in Petone that was far cheaper than JB and with a better selection. But JB is banking on me not to bother looking in the first place.
This is basic tactics and if people don't understand it I'm worried about the education system.

the value of the resale is tied to its demand, and there's just much more demand for nintendo games. even for used games. you'd think with so many copies out there, but it's still being bid high

With so many copies

Isn't quite the case in Oceanic region. Most Nintendo games can be impossible to find a month later cause of how limited the initial stock is. You're pretty much required to preorder or wait a month or two for the restock

Aushole thinks his "country" matters

Surely this tactic wouldn't work as well in the modern age when anyone can look up the cheapest price from the phone in their pocket?
Supermarkets I get because you tend to be buying more than one food product, so rather than running round to get the cheapest price, it's easier to just get it all in one spot. But for somthing like a game, why WOULDN'T you just look up the cheapest option every time?

Let me tell you some stories from the GameCube days. Those were dark times. Especially in NZ as it was a distributor, whereas Aussie had Nintendo Australia. It was Monaco, I believe -- eventually Softprint took over until they just gave up and Nintendo Australia just decided to deal with the whole region.
Anyway, if you didn't preorder a GameCube game, you weren't getting it ever. Not at launch, obviously, but around the time Mario Kart Double Dash came out, you either preordered or you just didn't get a copy.
But Monaco did no advertising ever, either. I think the only time I saw an advert for the GameCube on TV was actually a promotion with a child's yoghurt. I might see if I can find it on YouTube.
I had a GameCube (loved it) and at one flat party, a chick saw us playing Mario Kart and said "I didn't even realise Nintendo were still in business." This was state of Nintendo in NZ back then.

Breaking news: EB charges extra for games

Get it from Amazon like a normal person

People are lazy.

KEK @ AMERIKEKS

100$ is better?

Better than the $124 EB is asking for

that's less than the US price

Another way to put this is when I worked at Trade Me. It's basically eBay but eBay ignored NZ for ages and then when they tried to come it was too late as the Trade Me brand was intrenched. (Also, Kiwis are really patriotic.) Anyway, their mission statement at the time was to be the first place people looked when they went to shop. Which is why they started selling a lot of international goods from international sellers. The COO would give a speech: "I bought these Nike sneakers online from America and they coste a third of the price and turned up in seven days."
Funny thing is Trade Me went to shit, and even when I was working there it's the last place I'd look. It's still the last place. I'd go to Temu before Trade Me.
But whatever, the point is when you are around these business morons, all they want is to be first in mind when you go to buy something.

Nintendo prices have always been weird in NZ
I remember buying Mario Tennis on the 3DS for $20 off Mighty Ape, hating it, trading it in to EBgames and getting $35 credit for it.
yeah I never knew anyone with a gamecube. One kid in my class rented one for his birthday in 2001 or something but that was my only time ever seeing one in person

Oh I remember our EB's GC section being roughly three small shelves next to the counter.
Though can't say they didn't try. I remember playing on acouple of GC kiosks when it first launched. One at Kmart and the other at that old nz gaming store that shut down in the late 00's. Game Center or somthing?

Trade Me really is just Temu with extra steps and higher prices now. It sucks cause it used to be great to sell on figures and shit back in the day

Thinking of Gamesman? EB bought them.
I will see if I can find an ad on YouTube for nostalgia.
Gamesman actually bought out the local mum and dad store, and in fact only dedicated games store, in New Plymouth: PowerPlay. They were like second parents to me, really nurturing and kind..I asked them about it and they said "We could either sell or be put out of business." Their son went on to work for Bungie.

No
Its not okay when anyone does it

I think around 2011/2012 prices sometimes hit 120AUD (maybe 130 for some minor limited editions or steelbooks?) but those prices led to our games market having a decline which was extremely out of tune for an era of extreme sales growth worldwide. We got a price drop for PS4 era (or just before maybe) because of the sales decline. Bethesda in particular used to have great pricing after the PS4 launch but before the Microsoft acquisition, I got Prey for 65AUD at launch.

youtu.be/1aPHYr_mjOU?si=ahGj82OJKkgKOB2a

Call of Duty games were definitely that price
And that was all anyone really played in Australia/NZ during the 2010s before F2P shit like Fortnite took off

whoa, hey guys

jesus

Gamesman

It may have been? Though the store I went to was at Riccarton mall in Christchurch but that ad said there wasn't one there. It was the only time I ever saw a internet adapter for the PS2 there. I miss the aesthetic of tech shops back then too

Yeah, I remember getting the GT3 bundle after organising the school's after ball (and to fair, I had to clean vomit from everywhere, so fuck you I earned it) and my mother hit the roof.
PS3 launched for something like $1200, but our dollar was in the shitter at the time.

It's a really old ad. Like I said, they opened up in New Plymouth about the time Kingdom Hearts came out. But I could only find two ads on YouTube.

I miss the aesthetic of tech shops back then too

I remember there was one in the wellington CBD that was in the basement of a mall and it fucking stunk of BO

That's $56 ($62 with tax) burger bucks

This one in Riccarton was around since the PS1 days cause I vividly remember seeing Crash Bash in there for the first time.

Might have been an independent, then. They definitely existed back in the day. Or maybe it's a chain I never got exposed to. I grew up in the Naki and it was just PowerPlay and The Warehouse. I think Noel Leeming started selling them when the PS1 came out.
I'm old enough that I remember them having competitions for Master Systems on What Now.

There's an already proven price point for games Aussies won't pay above which is very close to current prices. Nintendo Australia is its own thing so they can step in and say why the game price increase won't work. Game prices at stores will probably come down further the year after launch as well if Switch 2 isn't a regional failure.

whataboutism

kill yourself you disingenuous console warrior

$10 deposit

W-what??

Same as it ever was

Maybe it was. Will drive me crazy now as I was early teens at most when it shut down and I can only remember flashes of memories from there.
Another store a vaguely remember was a tech shop that sold games too. It was blue themed. Pretty sure it got merged later on with on of the bigger stores like noel leeming

Protip: never buy from EB unless you can get them to pricematch

Also sheepfuckers get out, this is the actual aussie price

Pre-orders require a deposit here. Some places expect full payment up front but EB only needs $10

prime remastered

pretty sure I got this for $40 from bigw day 1 kek

No one cares about Aussies when it comes to gaming cause you pussies are scared of r18 stuff

that resident evil game never got banned btw

Eb games

Using the app

Signed into the app

I fucking detest normies

Yea cause you had to beg your government to let you play it. Meanwhile we just sit here fucking our sheep until the game releases. Fun all the time

Anyone else remember when they called themselves electronic boutique? How the fuck are they still in business? If you go into their stores these days its like 80% consoomer merch slop and a small row of actual video games.

No, it was just a bug and it actually never even happened

How the fuck are they still in business?

Unironically because BigW puts their entertainment section at the back of the store.
I'd rather walk into EB to pick up a game than trudge through the festering bowls of BigW or be accosted 800 times by commission earning staff in JBhifi.

Oh boy, time to expect dozens of playstation bashing threads for weeks from tendies to distract from nintendo trying to fleece them, after two years of not even having a good game on switch to talk about lol

I haven't been in one for half a decade and it was already bad then. Can't imagine how bad it is now. My guess is half the store is those little dolls at this point. Maybe pokemon cards? I think they're big right now.

EB cashiers are way bigger pains in the ass than JB Hifi staff
I stopped going to their stores in person because every time I tried to buy a game off them they'd try sell me a strategy guide or funko pop to go with it
Only thing EB does better than JB is not having a security guard you have to interact act with when you enter and leave the store

Interact with two people for a split second each or a single particularly annoying person. Easy choice really.

They overprice their shit compared to every other retailer tho.

Which is fine if you can get them to price match which they've been good about in the past, but recently they changed their policy to only pricematch stores in the same shopping centre or some arbitrary shit like that so idk.

$124
Are they really this retard? Go on kill the gaming market.

those prices

wtf??
bestbuy.com/site/death-stranding-2-on-the-beach-playstation-5/6623571.p
$69.99 at bestbuy