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Father mike
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Gamestop's buyback program seriously flirts with pawnbrokerage laws in some (?many?) states. I don't think that's a can of worms that WalMart wants to open. But what do I know?
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Lakov_Sanite
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Gamestop's buyback program seriously flirts with pawnbrokerage laws in some (?many?) states. I don't think that's a can of worms that WalMart wants to open. But what do I know?
Walmart can add that to the list of much more serious and criminal laws they already laugh at, it's not going to make any difference. |
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KallDrexx
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Best buy takes in used games, but since they take in more than games you have to give them your ID due to the pawn broker laws.
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Rendakor
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Best buy takes in used games, but since they take in more than games you have to give them your ID due to the pawn broker laws.
That's a state by state issue; GS has to copy your ID for trades too in some states. |
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Best buy and amazon have matched walmart's $50 under msrp for the titanfall bundle. Another "see the special price at checkout" for bestbuy and amazon tells you to use a code to lower the price. The standard version is now getting Forza 5 bundled in. Some people who bought the titanfall bundle at $499 have complained and managed to get the difference back.
Just imagine what we'll be getting in these deals next Christmas! Oh, wait. XBone. Ok, fuck that then. |
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schild
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Yea, wouldn't buy an XBone for $100.
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Paelos
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I honestly wouldn't put one in my house if they gave it to me for free and just charge me for the games.
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Yegolev
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I'd have to uncable my WiiU for it, so no.
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Miasma
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March NPD came out yesterday, everyone assumed the xbox would win due to the titan fall effect. It didn't. PS4 still outsold xbox despite being supply constrained, the massively hyped titanfall release and price cuts/bundles.
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Paelos
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Guess the consumers aren't as stupid as XBOX hoped.
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Fabricated
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Permanent pricecut is likely coming, which will be hilarious as this will cause even larger losses in the xbox department.
Just spin it off and sell it to someone stupid like Amazon or something.
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Paelos
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I don't know how they didn't see this coming from day one.
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Trippy
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They announced their pricing before Sony did and then fumbled around when they realized the pricing difference was likely to be an issue.
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HaemishM
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Just spin it off and sell it to someone stupid like Amazon or something.
Amazon is not even remotely stupid enough to buy the XBone, nor do they even remotely need it. Their Fire TV Gary Busey search engine box is already a more interesting set top box for TV stuff than the Bone will EVER be. EDIT: Maybe Facebook wants it.  |
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Margalis
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The XB1 is the culmination of an ambition that has been around since the Web TV days. Unfortunately for MS that ambition stopped making sense 10 years ago. (To rule the living room with a single device)
Spider-Man for XB1 was just delayed indefinitely. It seems highly unlikely to be a technical issue. Reading between the lines my guess is that MS tried to throw their weight around and get the XB1 version to come out earlier or have exclusive content or not lack content the PS4 version did and got into a game of chicken with Activision.
This is emblematic of how MS has approached this gen - with the mindset that consumers and game publishers are a captive audience. Rather than try to earn publisher and player support they've taken it as a given, which has informed everything they've done - the price, the emphasis on non-gaming, the lower power compared to PS4.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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K9
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Is there anything worth playing on the new consoles yet? I'd like to buy a console for the new lounge, but I can't see any compelling reason to buy a PS4 over a PS3, but buying a PS3 when it's not the newest model seems odd.
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Hawkbit
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The only game I'd like to play is Infamous:SS. It's pretty hard to justify a ~$500 purchase with the game and tax for just that title.
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Is there anything worth playing on the new consoles yet?
Nothing you're missing out on by not playing, and there's nothing big scheduled for this year (that you can't also get on a PC) either aside from Destiny in Sept. With a new Mario Kart next month and Smash Bros. at the end of the year if you're into those things, the WiiU sadly does more to justify a purchase. |
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Jeff Kelly
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I still think Microsoft got blindsided by Sony. Remember MS wanted the 360 to last ten years. Kinect was their grand plan to prolong the console life cycle. Also the rumors about a new console were exclusively about a new Sony console at first.
MS now claims that they've been in development for as long as Sony but if you read between the lines they've started considerably later than Sony. Many of their issues are not only because they designed their product for a purpose that buyers generally didn't find compelling but also because they had to catch up to Sony.
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Fordel
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Is there anything worth playing on the new consoles yet? I'd like to buy a console for the new lounge, but I can't see any compelling reason to buy a PS4 over a PS3, but buying a PS3 when it's not the newest model seems odd.
How much does a PS3 run these days? Is there a 'slim' or whatever yet. |
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Cyrrex
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There's been a slim for a while now and I imagine they are going pretty cheap in the US...but the slim version has something like 12 gigs of memory built in, which is basically useless. I assume you swap that out, but still. It is 2014, for crying out loud.
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Rendakor
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The 12 gig is like, a budget model to compete with the 360's 4 gig; the standard PS3 slim comes with 500 gigs and Last of Us for $270.
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Cyrrex
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My bad, I guess I didn't know there was a slim that also had the 500gb disk.
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Rendakor
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When the new slim (since the 2nd model was also called slim when it came out  ) released, there were 250 and 500 gig options; the 12 gig option is newer and terrible. One of the reasons PS3s are more durable than 360s is that most games are forced-install so you're mostly reading from the hard disk and not running the BR drive nonstop. That's not viable with only 12 gigs unless you literally only play Call of Duty or Madden (but not both). |
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KallDrexx
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I'm just amazed that both the PS4 and XB1 have sold as much as they have, with so little games and yet PS3 and 360 games can be gotten for cheap (especially used).
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Morat20
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The 12 gig is like, a budget model to compete with the 360's 4 gig; the standard PS3 slim comes with 500 gigs and Last of Us for $270.
I picked up a PS3 with Last of Us and one of the Batman games for like 200 on Black Friday (well, the weekend long Black Friday. I ordered online). I think it was the 500 gig model. And he was glad to get it, even at 17. There's just shit out for PS4 that he wants to play and a huge backlog of PS3 games he wanted to try that either were PS3 exclusive or we never got for the 360. Plus, he's now got neftlix in his room. So bonus. I still can't seen the Xbone or PS4 as anything but a waste of money. |
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Miasma
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It's a future investment! Everyone on this board is going to wind up buying one at some point so why not do it now? |
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Goreschach
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Everyone on this board is going to wind up buying one at some point so why not do it now?
Hahaha no. |
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Morat20
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It's a future investment! Everyone on this board is going to wind up buying one at some point so why not do it now? Because they'll never RAISE the price, they're likely to slash it, and later models will have more of a library, more memory, be more reliable and even if they never touched the price, be slightly cheaper due to inflation? |
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Rendakor
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Why feed the troll/obvious sarcasm?
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Is any of this shit backwards compatible yet?
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Paelos
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Is any of this shit backwards compatible yet?
Not from what I've seen. Another reason I'm not buying one. |
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Yegolev
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I believe high sales in this round will mean a general lack of BC in the future. Although I don't really know what the hold-up is at Sony with emulation of some sort. I'd have a PS4 now if it played PS2 games, let alone PS3 games.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Concur. Pretty sure I mentioned it already, but my PS3 got stolen right around the launch of the PS4 and I would have happily upgraded to the new system instead of buying a refurb PS3 from Gamestop if I could have played my old games on it.
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Miasma
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There won't be any backwards compatability since the systems are so different, they would have needed to put in a cell chip basically. Emulation is expensive and I doubt the ps4 is powerful enough to emulate a ps3 either.
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