They admitted to reprinting the games 2 months ago. How's living under a rock working out for you?
If they did that's pretty vague. Still haven't seen Nintendo's stance on it.
I was just asking why they would have a case like that if they weren't owned by Nintendo.
In all fairness, Gamestop has not admitted to reprinting anything,
I'm not defending GS, but I do recall seeing that I could get $50+ for the game several months before it came back in stock. This was right around the time when people started realizing that the game was selling for $100+ on eBay. My logic is that a lot of people took GS up on their offer and they hoarded the copies.
You didn't answer my question; if most GS stores only got none 1, 2, etc copies at launch how do they now have 2, 3, 4 copies? Did everyone trade their copy in and then pull some out of thin air to trade more in?
Is it their fault it's not available at other retailers? Just sounds like another smart business decision to me.
No, it's not their fault; in fact, the only reason we're having this discussion is because they decided to bring it over. What's bullshit about it is that they used their exclusivity and artificial scarcity to take advantage of the high resale value and hoped we wouldn't notice. They could have been up front with us and run the exact same "vintage" promotion with sealed copies at MSRP and it would've sold like hotcakes. Instead, they decided to take advantage of the secondary market pricing and get around the PR shitstorm it would've caused by quietly sneaking reprints into their used stock and slyly say that they "sourced new copies", hoping no one would notice/care that these were manufactured for the sole purpose of ripping people off.
about customer service. The "GameStop new" gutted copies, the practice of switching in shitty condition preowned games from the drawer to replace the good condition shelf copy, putting "Trade me in ASAP!" stickers on a midnight launch game that you just bought, throwing out stock game cases to make more room, basing their employee evaluations on bullshit metrics instead of actual customer satisfaction, etc etc etc. The only reasons people shop at their locations are A)convenience, B)exclusives and C)TIV value, none of which have anything to do with treating the customer like more than a sales statistic. You can play devil's advocate all you want, but making a quick buck in the short term at the expense of long term customer/employee satisfaction is a terrible way to run a business and it will bite GameStop in the ass eventually. corporate." Especially with the emphasis on metrics.
I say this because I was once someone who was adamant that this extra round of Xenoblade stock wasn't a reprint (and were trade-ins, as you suggest), but once you do see the copies of MPT they have in store, that will change your stance pretty quickly. The new MPT copies are most likely a reprint that is hard to refute. They are all in the standard white Wii game case, though they all still have the manuals. What are the chances that people traded in just the game and manual, and not the Steelbook case?
Well, I wouldn't say 100% unless you have asked every single person that has purchased a copy and used it.
There might be evidence which I believe is circumstantial. Though without proof it just leads to speculations and assuming.
ing GameStop yourself and use your eyes. If you can't tell that they're reprints then you should just quit buying video games since you obviously don't know what to look for.
do you think Gamestop's statement means when they say they sourced a "limited" number of copies? That someone just happened to be hoarding a few thousand copies of Xenoblades and Metroid Prime Trilogy that they sold or traded in to Gamestop in bulk?
