Gamestop selling Xenoblade Chronicles, possibly others

[Seraph Man]

For years I have always contended that Gamestop is actually a front for Satan and his Hellish empire. Any kind of dealing with that business boils down to a Faustian bargain. You have to sell your soul to get a good deal at that place. Of course Nintendo plays a hand in this due to them only releasing a limited number of the games into the US. If they were smart they would relase a second wave of the game at all retailers and then put the game on the eShop of the Wii U.

I've never heard of anything like this. I can still find virtually any 1st party Wii game at retail still (with only a couple of exceptions). Seems like their supply is all but limited.

They're refering to Xenoblade and Prime Trilogy. I think Pandora's Tower and The Last Story were also limited release, but aren't as in demand as Xeno and the Trilogy.

[razielleonhart]

For years I have always contended that Gamestop is actually a front for Satan and his Hellish empire. Any kind of dealing with that business boils down to a Faustian bargain. You have to sell your soul to get a good deal at that place. Of course Nintendo plays a hand in this due to them only releasing a limited number of the games into the US. If they were smart they would relase a second wave of the game at all retailers and then put the game on the eShop of the Wii U.

This is gamestop way of buying a game from you

“Oh if you have any games to trade in we’ll buy them from you! Say you have a game worth fifty dollars, we can take that off your hands right now and give you six dollars store credit! We’ll then turn around and put it back on the shelf for 49.99. We call it a butt fucking!”

[UncleBob]

I don't care if GameStop is selling the game at $50, $90 or $200.

I do think it's freaking stupid if they're opening up sealed games just to give the appearance that they're used.

[EnvyNeko]

As someone who frequents gamestop I know Xenoblade had been extremely low in supply. Even when it was released there were only enough copies for the people who preordered and finding a nearby store that had a new copy was generally more than 100 miles out, if that.  I do remember when they had the standard used price for a brand new game (54.99) but still, finding a used copy of Xenoblade was like pulling teeth. 

From personal experience it seems more like Nintendo driving up value for their own games. Many recent releases only had enough copies for people who preordered with maybe one or two copies for the store to sell.

The price is a little ridiculous for gamestop, but keep in mind that gamestop regularly has coupons you can use on the purchase, and store credit. You can't get that with ebay and rarely do I see coupons on amazon.

As far as them opening the new games to sell them used?  Wii U.  As far as gamestop is concerned, Wii system and it's games are now legacy and most new games are opened and sold used to move stock and make space.

[JDavis]

From personal experience it seems more like Nintendo driving up value for their own games.

There's no short way to tackle how incorrect that line of thought is, so let's go the long way...

a) Nintendo doesn't make any money off of used game sells. No publisher does. That's why many of them have tried to rally against the used game market for a long time now. So Nintendo has absolutely no reason to want to drive up the cost of used copies of the game.

b) You're giving Nintendo more credit than they deserve in regards to forethought and strategy. The reason Xenoblade had such a small and short run is the same reason it didn't get a wide retail release (exclusive to Nintendo's website and Gamestop) and why we didn't get it in America until two years after Japan got it. It wasn't even announced for a US release until months after Europe and Australia got it. Australia! The butt-hole of game territories (no offense, Australians, you know how bad you've got it). It took a massive fan movement for Nintendo to even consider Xenoblade for American release. They expected it to do poorly, so they didn't print a lot of copies.

Nintendo just doesn't understand the American game market. It shows more and more each year. It's really no wonder that a lot of the 3rd party companies are only giving the WiiU half-assed support (if any). It's sad, but I can't blame them.

[Superchop]

It took a massive fan movement for Nintendo to even consider Xenoblade for American release. They expected it to do poorly, so they didn't print a lot of copies.

Honestly, I don't think it was even because of the fans that Nintendo decided to release the game.  I think that gamestop saw that there was some demand for the game so they themselves convinced Nintendo to release the game. Kinda like how Xseed decided to do Last Story and Pandora's tower.  Xseed wanted to please the fans while Nintendo didn't really care...as long as someone else footed the bill they were fine.

All Nintendo was doing was playing it safe.  If the game didn't sell...then there weren't many copies out there to worry much about...but if the game does sell...the print run was small enough that they'd sell all copies and get their money back.

[JDavis]

Yeah, I understand Nintendo didn't want another Dragon Warrior on their hands, but whether it was Operation Rainfall convincing Nintendo themselves or Gamestop convincing Nintendo because of Operation Rainfall... the point still stands that Nintendo of America's out of touch.

[Goodfella]

Gamestop has $15 off of a games or accessories purchase of $59.99 or more online. offer expires on 9/3. Hopefully this helps whoever is looking to buy this game or others. I know some may also be looking to pick up pikman 3 or MPT. This can be used for multiple items adding up to $59.99 or more as well.

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