Come the end of January gamers are going to have to decide which game to get and where. Amazon is offering $10 in credit for pre-ordering, Walmart has a similar deal. Gamestop is offering a Bobble Head for pre-ordering Soul Calibur V. Best Buy has a few good options as well. Neither game is getting the extensive pre-order options Batman AC and LA Noire received. Goozernation has a full breakdown of the pre-orders.
"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.
If they did then collectors wouldn’t be getting f***** over with discless collectors editions
No shock, GameStop is alive because of trading. If they don't have used games on their shelves they are absolutely donezo.
Well of course the GS boss thinks this... that's their bread and butter business. That and funco pops and clothing, though those two were added as a means to supplement the decline in people buying used games or even new games. GS just sucks overall when it comes to gaming. I buy my physical stuff on Amazon or Best Buy.
As for "requiring" disc drives... nah. Not anymore, but i like having them as an option. They had a means back when games actually ran off the discs and were more/less complete. Now they are incomplete and the disc is really an installer with a license to play. If you want to change games you have to take out the disc and put in another. Its more convenient to just use digital. I have been into digital for years now and when the PSPortal comes along i wont even have to go into my game room. I will just play my PS5 from my couch downstairs. I have a bunch of digital installed games to my 5... I'm all set.
Gamingbible writes: "Luckily, if you’re living in the US you can trade your Xbox into Gamestop, where you’ll receive a hefty amount of cash as well as a $50 bonus for certain customers, just short of enough to buy the PS5."
At this point in time If I didn't own a PS5 I would have done this in a heartbeat but I had already acquired a PS5 first before I acquired an XBSX.
I'll stick to keeping both. Gamestop though... seems kind of desperate to take in Series X units. What could they be plotting???
I just want some games for my series X I have both since release and after weighing the offerings in PS Essentials to Gamepass I quickly realized I Owned anything of worth in both catalogs. And, the things I didn't I didn't see as justifiable for maintaining both subs.
Since then my series X is a legacy machine that I play my old games on and that's it. 3 years ago I really thought from that Xbox showcase we were going to have some great games by now. Instead, it's just been a lot of meh
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I'd say, at least in the UK, Final Fantasy XIII-2 does. I have both games pre-ordered. Got Final Fantasy XIII-2 Crystal Edition Pre-ordered at GAME and of course, many of you know that it has one of the best contents in a collectors edition in recent years. But GAME is also offering a nice steelbook case, and DLC for Omega as a boss/monster, as well as DLC for Noel and Serah's costumes. So I think that's the better deal
Soul Calibur V I have pre-ordered at Shopto and they're offering two bobble heads, of which I'm not sure of the quality just yet as I haven' seen a photo, and 4 art cards which I already have because they were giving them away free at the Soul Calibur V booth at Eurogamer Expo last year. Picked up about 5 sets haha
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I don't like in game content being pre-order bonuses. I really wish they would stop doing it.
I'm going to buy FF13-2 when it's $20 on amazon. Just like I did with FF13.
Wellllll let me see. They both offer great incentives to preorder.
Wait, why does this article even exist? I can understand maybe comparing the preorder bonuses of the same game, or even one of the same genre, but JRPG and beat'em up? Really?