[quote name='zman73']The 8.96 CC sale couldnt hold a candle to the $5 games they had the year before that... There were some real gems in that sale such as Rez (when it was valuable) Marvel vs Capcom 2, Resident Evil CV GCN and many others
Then again by sheer volume, the monthly CC markdowns later on the next year or so were amazing too, especially when you'd hit up the CC that didnt care to mark anything down, Id spend over an hour looking through all the games, it was a like a treasure hunt... walk out with a huge bag of games for next to nothing
The last really memorable blowout sale was the Best Buy one earlier this year, but my BB only had a few games
Alot of this is due to the 3 newer systems with newer games, I think the deals will pick up longer in the life cycle... I couldnt find any PS2 deals for the longest time when I got that years ago[/quote]
That was the July 4th sale in 2005, right? See, I had joined this site maybe a month or two later in 2005(checking my own post, I now see I joined the month OF the sale), plus I didn't really pay much attention to sales back then. Now though, forget about it, unless there's a 'real' sale(games for $10 or under), I won't even bother with going to a store during some usually great shopping period like BF or July 4th.
I did manage to get in on SOME of the $1.99 games from the BB clearance earlier this year, but not many, and my luck with the super clearance priced games @ CC is hit or miss. Most managers at CC must be programmed to believe that NO game should go out the door for UNDER $10-30, since I was denied a bunch of times on $1.96 games. Had I been the person I am now back then, I would've complained to corporate to try and either get the game for that price or get a gc for my time/trouble.
It's too bad that CC completely blew off keeping with tradition this year, as I don't even think they HAD a July 4th blowout sale. Shame really, since that's the only time I find myself going there anymore, but it seems like deals are becoming few and far between.
Oh and RudyPants, as someone else said, you have to LOOK for bargains @ FYE. They ARE there to be had, if you just LOOK. It's how I found my $15 copy of Futurama(used and with surface scratches, but still cheaper than Ebay).