Okay guys, I know I’m not alone on this one. The time of year is quickly approaching where you will find great bargains, sales, and clearances on your favorite products, including video games, and electronics. I love the Holiday season as much as the next guy. Thanksgiving Turkey, Santa Claus in all the Malls, Figgy Pudding, and all that other crap. However, this is also the time of year, when most stores double, and some even triple their sales staff, to heckle, pester, and bug you into uneccessary purchases.
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When Capcom announced Super Street Fighter IV as a standalone expansion and not DLC, a lot of gamers got their panties all in a bunch. My guess is that half of those gamers just want to bitch and didn’t buy SF4 in the first place. While I was a bit disappointed, I can completely understand the need for this to be an entirely new game. With all the under-the-hood changes in addition to the new fighters, new network code, etc., it wouldn’t have been feasible to make this into a downloadable package. However, it’s still a short period of time between Street Fighter 4 and what I’ll call Street Fighter 4.5, which has caused pricing to be at the forefront of all discussions.
A listing on GameStop indicates that we’ll be shelling out $39.99 for a copy of Super Street Fighter IV in March. Sounds about right to me, and I think it’s a fair price for everything you’re getting. Since my SF4 game save wouldn’t transfer to my new PS3 Slim, I lost all my unlocked characters, stats, and all that good stuff (BJ and I both got sad when we fired the game up after Uncharted 2 Wednesday night, remembering after the fact that everything was gone). Getting SSF4, with everything unlocked from the start, will make me a happy camper.
What about all of you? Do you think this is fair pricing from Capcom? Will you be picking up the new version of the game? I’m just hoping the costume DLC I bought (I know, I know) transfers over to Super Street Fighter IV…
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Coincidentally, as the weather gets colder in the Northeast, AAA games begin to surface. While this is a great excuse to stay inside, it can’t happen without the money to buy the games. While looking through my game collection, I noticed that I hadn’t played most of the games in at least 4 months or more. If I did play one of the games, it was merely to kill some time over summer vacation. After looking at both Best Buy and GameStop’s trade in values respectively, I learned that I could easily get over $160 for all of my games. By now most of you how we here at Loot Ninja feel about GameStop. To end up trading my games in with them was a huge surprise to me. Find out why below.
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I was strolling through the Base Exchange on Tinker, AFB a few days ago and I noticed that the Cinnabon was closed, and walled off. Once my dreams of pecan laden pastry had subsided, and I had wept many cinnamon-sugary tears, I noticed that the construction tape over the doorway read “GameStop, coming soon”.
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After a romantic candle-lit dinner followed by a dip in the hot tub, my friend told me about the Best Buy trade in program. I went to the trade-in page and found out that it’s quite different from GameStop. There are three steps to the process: Estimate, Print/Ship, Receive a gift card. Instead of going into a store and trading your games in, everything is done online. The one exception are the trade-in kiosks, but those are not readily available.
The real question is if you get more money for your trade-ins. After a quick call to GameStop, I have a list of three games and their values at both Best Buy and GameStop.
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Are you super pumped for Halo 3: ODST? Have you been drinking Game Fuel since you work up this morning? The only cure is a midnight launch! Most GameStop’s are holding midnight events for the launch of ODST and I’ll be attending just to check out the festivities. My local GameStop has advertised a Halo 3 multiplayer tournament while people wait, which should be enjoyable.
How about you? Any of you out there planning to hit up a midnight launch for the day? Are you staying up all night to rock through the campaign or maybe take down waves of Covenant in Firefight? Let us know!
Oh GameStop, you’re a big fan of street dates. Sometimes you make us wait, sometimes you sell your wares early. The upcoming Fallout 3 expansion, Point Lookout, falls into the latter category. GameStop stores are now selling the expansion, albeit in the form a download code, a few days early (scheduled release is Tuesday).
Bethesda is reporting that these codes shouldn’t work until Tuesday, but we’re hearing differently. I have two friends that purchased this at GameStops today; one of them worked, one did not. Maybe Bethesda and Microsoft flipped a switch between when they both entered the codes. Either way, if you want to look at the box and drool for a couple days before you can definitely play this, hit up your local GameStop or buy it on their website.
If you head over to GameStop and plunk down $5 to preorder Madden 10, you’ll get an extra special demo. We already knew about the demo bonus, but ShackNews pinged EA to find out what kind of demo everyone else would be getting.
We will also be issuing a demo via Xbox LIVE and PSN that features the Giants vs. Cowboys with 2 minute quarters. The GameStop demo is exclusive in terms of content. For example, the GameStop exclusive demo features a rematch of Super Bowl XLIII featuring the Steelers vs. Cardinals with 5 minute quarters.
I don’t see much point in preordering Madden, especially for a demo. It’s not like you won’t be able to walk into any store and pick up Madden the day of release. For me, I’ll wait it out.
As first reported on by Destructoid, I can confirm that GameStop will no longer be accepting original Xbox trade-ins for games, systems, and accessories starting February 9th. While in the store yesterday to pick up a few things, there was a hand-written sign on the counter and the store manager confirmed the policy when asked. They were waiting for the corporate issued printed up signs, but wanted to get the word out as soon as possible.
Since no games have been made for the system in about three years, I’d say the demand is pretty dead, so this isn’t all that surprising. If you still have some original Xbox stuff hanging around that you wanted to get rid of, do it now or try to sell on eBay or something of the sort.
Black Friday isn’t the only day of the year you can buy great games with steep discounts. Don’t worry if you didn’t feel like waiting hours in line for the chance to get trampled. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, you just aren’t as crazy as some people. Well, I have some crazy deals for you. See how that works?
The App Store doesn’t have a section dedicated to discounted games. It’s a shame really because sometimes these sales only last for a day or two and no one ever gets a chance to notice them. While digging around a bit I ended up finding two high quality titles more than 50% off but these sales are only good today. The two titles are Raging Thunder and TouchSports Tennis ‘09. Both are fairly high rated games and both are 50% off or better.
Gamestop.com is having an online only sale tomorrow (12/1/08) but the sale starts right after midnight, Eastern Time. They don’t have any games specifically listed but there are images of Spore, Shaun White Snowboarding and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 on the sale page with discounts as much as $20.00. They also have discounts of up to 50% off of select downloadable games. If that isn’t enticing enough for you they are offering free value shipping. You don’t have to physically go inside of Gamestop and interact with humans, what’s not to like?
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