Why Gamestop should be Stopped.

[mjc0961]

The problem with the guy in those videos is that unlike Yahtzee who I can still easily understand when he's talking fast, this guy has left half of his words unintelligible because he's talking too fast.

 

[Phoenixlight]

This isn't new, these videos were made last year and uploaded on another website (can't remember which one).

 

[Verlander]

*snip* Simply put, games NEED to shift x amount of products in order to break even, but when popular titles are bought up to 9 times more used than new, then they are getting ripped off. You shouldn't try and justify your own selfishness with a terrible example

It's not rediculous at all. Simply put, anyone that makes anything needs to shift X number of units to break even. Games are not special in this regard, and get numerous advantages in that they have extremely low per unit cost. Manufacturers of traditional products have things like labor and factories to worry about. How much does it cost to have a batch of discs pressed? Like 5 cents per? Plunk down a few million to start manufacturing a physical product and you might be making a 3-5% margin on it.

Production costs may be low, but development costs are incredibly high, which books don't have, and games themselves are comparatively cheap, with only a small percentage of the finished product going to toward development costs, something that neither the housing nor the motoring industries have to deal with.

This issue wouldn't be raised if there was nothing wrong there.

 

[Lucie]

I couldn't listen to it all, he mumbles almost all the time and it gets too tiresome. Where I live there isn't Gamestop so I can't really judge but wouldn't competition make the prices drop, it's not like they have a monopoly. A store goes out of business when their pricing isn't competitive. You can't keep charging people more for the same thing, they will go somewhere else.