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From: Brian Baird <brian@dma-design.com>
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Subject: Re: ALL PS games under =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A330?= -- YIPEE!
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 17:23:48 +0100
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Rikki Prince wrote:
> 
> 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.

Unfortunately, none of the local independants can afford this pricedrop.
It's a cynical move by Virgin to drive out competition in the short
term. 

> 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.

Nice of them to break the release date on VRally2 - it was officially
delayed until next Friday. 

-- 

Brian @ DMA

[ All opinions & views are my own, not DMA's, yadda, yadda, yadda ]