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Gamestop = even worse than I thought
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 03, 2008, 04:08:02 pm --- I also made this point earlier with a list of great Xbox 360 games that may as well not even exist anymore.
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4 of the 6 games you listed are currently available at my local Best Buy (3 on the xbox 360 and 1 on the pc), and I bet Crackdown will be available again once its released as a Plantium Hit. Older games on current systems are still taking up shelf space, they just rarely make headlines anymore so it seems like they've disappeared. The TV show X-Play even has a regular segment called "Games for Cheap ---daisies---" where they talk about great older games available for $15-30.
Dartful Dodger:
7 years ago I created this program for a client. It's a simple program that lets you listen to sound effects and then save them on to your hard drive. Three months ago they started getting complaints that the application wasn't saving files to the hard drive. We told them they’d have to pay us to update it. They decided to stop selling it.
Maybe you can commission some monks to update the games in your 20 year old library.
Seriously most of the games written 20 years ago have been rewritten in Flash by 13 year olds. Why would any company try and sell a game that people can play for free?
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on April 03, 2008, 04:32:43 pm ---Maybe you can commission some monks to update the games in your 20 year old library.
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Heh true. My uncle loves playing old computer games and recently picked up the game Civil War Generals, unfortunately he wasn't able to get it installed because of some error. I happened to have a copy of Civil War Generals 2 that I played 9-10 years ago (I never throw anything out, I even have the instruction manual for it), but unfortunately he had the same problem. I probably could of gotten it running with DosBox or something similar, but I was never nearby to help with his computer and he's not good enough on the computer to figure out how to do it himself.
shmokes:
I'm talking about more than just availability, though. I'm talking about consumer behavior. With few exceptions, when games go on sale, they sell 99% of what they will ever sell, almost immediately. Sales then drop to something hardly above zero.
JimmyU:
Fun Fact: 43% of Gamestop's profits come from used game sales. Source:
http://kotaku.com/375440/majority-of-gamestop-sales-from-just-four-companies
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