@LegatoSkyheart said:
@SolidTy said:
I'll buy it new and I will find it cheaper in two years than $35. When I do buy it, I'll probably gift it since I'm not a racing fan, but I come across deals all the time. 2014 Mario Kart's launch year and by 2016 some other game will be hot and this game will be yesterdays news. By Black Friday 2014 there will be deals galore on Wii U games including MK8, if not this year then next. There will be deals for this game, but closer to $40 this year, but next year it will go down for savvy shoppers. I know this for a fact, I've owned all the Nintendo consoles since launch and I've been at this a very long time. It's amazing what waiting and knowing retailers operations will do for a consumer. The MSRP will be $60 for a long time, but I almost never pay MSRP. I would do it for MK8, but it's just not my kind of game.
Trading in a forum dealing with codes is too much work (and it would require me to purchase a game I don't care for and won't play more than a hour), but I would consider that if I liked Racers which I don't. I own all the Mario Kart games and I'm just not a fan. It's one of the more fun racers, but I'm never going to spend $60 on a racing game. I feel the same way about sports, some genres people just don't like. It's clearly a good game with an 89 at metacritic, but it's a genre I'm not into. However, I know I'll come across copies of it within two years for cheaper than $35, and if you wanted to play the used game...craigslist and other options are out there, but I'm not even worried. I'll pick it up for $20 two years from now, maybe...depends on how I'll feel. I may see it for that price and walk on, I've done that countless times before for what many in SW would consider a fantastic deal/game. Retailers will surprise many of you, always needing to make space or offering B2G1F, B1G1F, or just simply huge % Discounts, etc just to make room for newer games.
People don't realize the deals retailers offer when it's close to xmas.
Well you mentioned Craigslist and that's probably where you're getting your Ninty games cheap. Mario Kart Games rarely go to the $20 range in Retail store. If you do manage to find one for that price, tell me where you shop cause that must be an awesome store.
I've never used Craigslist in my life. I rarely buy used. If I wanted to save money fast and used, I would go that route as you brought up used. I only mentioned Craigslist because you spoke of used and in absolutes. I already mentioned the retailers I use that will have sales : Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, Target, Gamestop, Shopco, Radio Shack, Fry's Electronics, Sears, Toys R Us, Kmart, and quite a few others are all worth checking out on Black Friday weekend. You are referencing $20 as an MSRP when I'm talking about sales. These games go on sale and then days later resume normal price. I understand this is hard to believe when paying $60 for such a long time, but these deals are out there. I actually will pay top dollar for a game I would play a lot, but I know even then I could save money if I wait just a month. In Mario Kart 8, I will have to wait longer, but I'm in no rush since this particular franchise isn't my cup of tea.
It's not an awesome store, it's awesome stores, plural. I also explained why, it's because of waiting on discounts and retailer overstock. It's because retailers are competing to get customers in their store over the competition. This is been going on since the Genesis/SNES days and further back and really picked up steam in my life in the PS1-N64-Saturn. Again, the same applied in the GC-Xbox-PS2-Dreamcast era. I lost some go to options when Hollywood Video, Blockbuster and KB Toys went under, but there's always other shops that get in motion. As video games grew in popularity, so did these sales and even better many of them are matching each other. It's crazy what one can save just by waiting months, and I gave myself a two year window when I posted.
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SolidTy's first post:
"Not me. I bought my Wii U at launch (I own two) but I don't like racing games. I will buy this for $20 a year or two from now. I'm in no rush and I may never buy it all generation. I own all the other Mario Kart games, but this franchise is just not for me."
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What is shocking to me is my post above was granting me a two year window is very relaxing and it wasn't designed to get such strong responses from two Nintendo/Mario Kart fans, but I was just speaking from two decades of shopping experience and in a very soft language. I enjoy the Wii U, but I am just not an eager beaver with this particular racing franchise. Your posts and his post took me off guard considering my initial mild post above was just so distressing to a few and I was forced consider why. There was a sense of justification and disbelief that one could buy this game for $20 in two year's time. There was a revelation as I took for granted people's perceptions of how retail stores actually work. In a way, the responses speak volumes in their own right. One doesn't have to work retail to know how the system works, but it helps. There are deals randomly as well all the time during summer or a week here or there...but what I have learned over the decades is hot hit titles can hold their own price (within $20) until the big blowout sales. Once an after Holiday sales start nothing is safe, when the sales season starts everything must go. The consumer dollars is what they want and deals fly at your from every direction.
I'm going to remember this conversation and maybe if inclined I'll snap a picture if I even buy the game in two years but like I said, I hardly think anyone in 2016 SW will care that I bought a MK8 for $20 at that point, which means I would just be taking a picture for you and that other guy.
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