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From: "Rikki Prince" <netyaroze@rprince.dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ALL PS games under £30 -- YIPEE!
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:11:00 +0100
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Well dropping it to 30 quid, will mean the shop (Virgin, game etc) will lose
the money, publishers, Sony, and the others will still get the normal
amount. Well, this is according to an article in Arcade a while ago, which
stated that the games shop owners actually take about a third of the cost of
games, to cover shop costs and profits etc. So on a £35 game, the shop
owners used to be getting about £11.50, and by dropping the price by a
fiver, they will only get about £6 on each game. This is could be a last
minute scramble to get as many sales in before the PSX2, but that's being a
bit premature.
Oh, and by the way, I nipped over to the new Special Reserve shop in
Basildon on Friday, and got me a copy of V-Rally 2 and Driver, both class
game. I haven't had much time to over test them, but they both look great.
Driver looks really difficult in the training section, but apart from
get-away situations, looks pretty easy. V-Rally just looks gorgeous, and is
definitely worth getting.

Rikki

Derek da Silva <dasi@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7l0kbh$qpv22@chuka.playstation.co.uk...
>
>
> The Virgin retail chain have taken it upon themselves to cut the price of
> all full price PS games to £29.99 - all the other multiples (Game, EB etc)
> have followed suit.
>
> This has been done in the interests of the consumer of course, and is in
no
> way a cynical ploy to grab market share during the summer games drought.
>
> Don't get me wrong, 30 quid should be top whack for any game, but I know
GT
> (Driver) and probably Sony are pretty unhappy about it.  It's obviously an
> unsustainable situation unless somebody plans to permanently cut their
> margins.
>
> I guess they weren't prepared to wait and see if Driver, V-Rally 2 etc
would
> get the tills ringing again after a slow couple of months - and the
> dominance of platinum titles in the chart was probably a little worrying
> too.  Apparently punters are asking when a game will come out on platinum
on
> the day of release...
>
> Driver beckons.
>
> Derek
>
> Has anyone got Outcast or Dungeon Keeper 2 yet? If so, what do you think?
>
>
>