Latest UK Software Charts (PS3 launch numbers)

[Paul_G]

I have no idea how competition is among your shops, but here there are often price wars in between shops. Including the PS3, you save 100$ easily by looking a bit.

At one time two biggies had a PS2 price fight that lasted 48 hours, they ended up at 100$ below the normal retail price, at that time some 249$

And totally sold out before day 1 was over btw.

I don't think we have anything like that in the UK. Others may wish to disagree but certainly where I live, it's Game and that's it as far as specialist retailers are concerned, then there are the electronics stores but they don't often seem to cut the prices since it's not their main business. This was the sort of information i was looking for though. If the same happened with PS2, then i can't really see it meaning much, being as PS2 generally sold well. I suppose i'd just not seen a price drop like that so soon after a consoles launch.

Thanks for the info.

 

[nelg]

*If* that is true then it would explain why a lot of places are offering discounts as I've seen a number myself, it costs money to store goods and it also takes up space that could be used for other items. If Sony won't allow unsold consoles to be returned (a lot of companies usually allow, to an extent at least, the return of unsold stock) and they are deemed to be losing more money through having them take up storage space than they are by offering a discount then it makes sense... The addition to that is that, if a discount at a loss does push more units out then that's more people to potentially buy software that they can make that money back on.

I think that it is more about tying up capital. Storage space is cheap relative to handling, so such scenarios usually indicate that the company involved thinks that they could use their money better elsewhere.

 

[-tkf-]

My first impression was that nobody in is right mind is gonna pay 2200 euro for a game that looks like this.

Get this.. i know someone that will/is have paid it... (well more really but hey)

 

[mrcorbo]

Get this.. i know someone that will/is have paid it... (well more really but hey)

Ah, but can you present independant confirmation of their mental health?