Xenoblade Chronicles out of print?

[muhanad]

This topic no longer pertains to Xenoblade anymore

You should change the title from "Xenoblade Chronicles out of print?" to "What is your opinion on Gamestop's business practices?"

[Jmustang1968]

This topic no longer pertains to Xenoblade anymore

You should change the title from "Xenoblade Chronicles out of print?" to "What is your opinion on Gamestop's business practices?"

We already have a thread on that unfortunately.

[Jagosaurus]

I seriously doubt GameStop did a reprint, because they would need Nintendo's permission to do so, considering Nintendo is the owner and publisher of the property. There's no way Nintendo would risk such bad PR as a "secret reprint", and also the game's not available from their own site. So I agree that GameStop simply hoarded up and redistributed their existing stock of Xenoblade to areas where the game might actually sell. $90 for a used game is atrocious sure, then again people will pay $150 for used Panzer Dragoon Saga so whatever.

There's supposedly a third party company involved who takes care of production reprint @ 50%, this would leave Ninty & GS making a sizeable profit with no operating expenses..& sounds like GS might might have done the same in PS2 era with Fatal Frame 2.

Remember when they were opening copies of Deus Ex last year to remove Game Fly promos, then selling as new. Opposite problem now lol.

[oxymoron]

If it was a exclusive with a limited run, how did copies magically pop up? Gamestop's reputation dosn't help either. The game publuisher that takes 50% is called Game Quest Direct.

Alpha Omega Sin's video pretty much sums it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lkgUQgjckU

[Exhuminator]

There's supposedly a third party company involved who takes care of production reprint @ 50%, this would leave Ninty & GS making a sizeable profit with no operating expenses.

I understand what you are saying, but it's the "supposedly" part that doesn't work for me. I totally agree that GS has done something underhanded here... but I think it has more to do with resource allocation than resource duplication. I say that because if Nintendo actually wanted to make money on this IP, they should just put Xenoblade on the Wii and Wii U eShop. I can't imagine they wouldn't make far more money off of that, then they would shifting shady reprints though GS.

[Jmustang1968]

What is shady? You either feel it is worth buying the game at the price they are selling or feel it is too high and pass. We all had a chance to buy it new at $50. I saw them everywhere for awhile, probably shouldve scooped them all up.

[Exhuminator]

It's shady if the reprints came in new and are unsealed and sold as "used". It's shady if Nintendo and GS last year said there'd only be one run (they did IIRC) ... and then secretly made another run. It's shady for the customer to think they are buying a legit first edition used copy of the game, only to actually be buying a secret reprint. And in a way, it's shady because reprints would devalue the overall price of the physical game due to an increased open market stock, making the initial investment of first edition purchasers such as myself lose some of its worth in the long run. And its shady in one final way... in that who knows if the reprints are of the same physical quality as the legitimate first run.

But who cares because this is all just conjecture right now as far as I've seen.

[oxymoron]

What is shady? You either feel it is worth buying the game at the price they are selling or feel it is too high and pass. We all had a chance to buy it new at $50. I saw them everywhere for awhile, probably shouldve scooped them all up.

That's not the point. It's the fact that GS received new copies and are selling them used to jack up the price $40. I understand that your talking from a factual perspective and I'm from a conspiracy theory but the point of the debate is the principal. GS shouldn't take new copies, unwrap then and jack up the price.

[Jmustang1968]

What is shady? You either feel it is worth buying the game at the price they are selling or feel it is too high and pass. We all had a chance to buy it new at $50. I saw them everywhere for awhile, probably shouldve scooped them all up.

That's not the point. It's the fact that GS received new copies and are selling them used to jack up the price $40. I understand that your talking from a factual perspective and I'm from a conspiracy theory but the point of the debate is the principal. GS shouldn't take new copies, unwrap then and jack up the price.

Why? I think from a business standpoint it would be foolish for them not to... they are still cheaper than ebay.

[oxymoron]

What is shady? You either feel it is worth buying the game at the price they are selling or feel it is too high and pass. We all had a chance to buy it new at $50. I saw them everywhere for awhile, probably shouldve scooped them all up.

That's not the point. It's the fact that GS received new copies and are selling them used to jack up the price $40. I understand that your talking from a factual perspective and I'm from a conspiracy theory but the point of the debate is the principal. GS shouldn't take new copies, unwrap then and jack up the price.

Why? I think from a business standpoint it would be foolish for them not to... they are still cheaper than ebay.

Very true, but it's a horrible business practice and untrustworthy. They do stuff like this and then ask why people hate them so much. Would you do that if you owned a game store?