I thought a Monopoly was illegal in the USA?!

grunt....70% and growing......think about it....Spinbrett

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

[QUOTE="Spinbrett"]grunt....70% and growing......think about it....SentryGunner411

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

Microsoft has a monopoly on PC operating systems (Windows and Windows Vista), but PCs themselves are made by many different manufacturers. Microsoft was hit with a monopolization lawsuit a few years ago because they required companies to package Windows and Microsoft Office will all PCs, but I think they settled out of court and continue to operate as they always have.

I read in this month's XBOX Magazine that the used game market is becoming more profitable to video game retailers than new titles are. According to the article, retailers like Game Stop that trade used games for store credit turn around and sell those games at a marked up value,making the games nearly pure profit for the when sold. And what's worse, the publishers and developers of that game see none of that resale money. The only money they make is off of new titles that they sell to retailers. So if you want to see more years of great games like the awesome year that 2007 was, spend the extra money and buy new games.The companies that come up with such great games as Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4 and BioShock deserve our support.Axxe428

But anyone with common sense knows that is how they would make there money. I mean most of the stores that I go into that is Eb Games, or Gamestop when you go in you see more USED games than you do non used. Kinda sad. I don't trade my games anymore with them. It is better to sell it on ebay or something and make more money than I would get by trading it with them. I remember seeing someone a couple days ago trade in there Wii to Gamestop. He got like.. 100 some bucks out of it and they re sold it for 220$.. Umm hello?

Yea, I don't bother trading games with them. But I do reserve games with them if I can not find it anywhere else.

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[QUOTE="Spinbrett"]grunt....70% and growing......think about it....Axxe428

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

Microsoft has a monopoly on PC operating systems (Windows and Windows Vista), but PCs themselves are made by many different manufacturers. Microsoft was hit with a monopolization lawsuit a few years ago because they required companies to package Windows and Microsoft Office will all PCs, but I think they settled out of court and continue to operate as they always have.

Thats not quite right. MS gets into all types of trouble for the stupidest of things. What they were doing was offering Office for like $5 if you put Windows on your computer. Ever5ybody was jumping on it and they got in trouble because that would be unfair to all other word processors who clearly couldn't sell their product for anywhere near that cheap. MS gets introuble for puzzling stuff. They included Internet Explorer and got hit with anti-trust lawsuits because they didn't include a rival browser. But at the same time, if you sell an OS without a web browser, people are gonna call you bogus and say that your OS doesn't offer the features that users want. LOL, thats like suiing Sony because your PS3 didn't come with XBox 360 coupons.

But Gamestop... they are horrible. God they are horrible. I shopped there 3 times. The first time they sold me two broken x-boxes (og xbox) that didn't didn't work as soon as you plugged them up, then they sold me a gamecube with a broken video cable (once again, if they'd even connected the stuff they'd have seen this), then they sold me a broken copy of PDZ for the 360. They are 0-3. I think anyone who says they've had like 3+ broken 360s is getting theres from gamestop. I have no doubt that they take one broken 360, put it in abox and gladly sell it to the next person who comes in asking for a used 360. They... they aren't gamer friendly at all. They may know more about release dates than the Best Buy guy, but when best buy sells you something it works. its rare for it not to work.

[QUOTE="Spinbrett"]grunt....70% and growing......think about it....SentryGunner411

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

there was already a lawsuit about that. I got $65 out of it.

But Gamestop... they are horrible. God they are horrible. I shopped there 3 times. The first time they sold me two broken x-boxes (og xbox) that didn't didn't work as soon as you plugged them up, then they sold me a gamecube with a broken video cable (once again, if they'd even connected the stuff they'd have seen this), then they sold me a broken copy of PDZ for the 360. They are 0-3. I think anyone who says they've had like 3+ broken 360s is getting theres from gamestop. I have no doubt that they take one broken 360, put it in abox and gladly sell it to the next person who comes in asking for a used 360. They... they aren't gamer friendly at all. They may know more about release dates than the Best Buy guy, but when best buy sells you something it works. its rare for it not to work. Senor_Kami

That happened to me too. I bought a used 360 pro with the hard drive, took it home and the rings started flashing when I turned it on. I returned it and got another one. It worked fine, until I put in a game and then it froze. I took that one back and got a third used console. That one wouldn't even play games at all. Finally I went back, threw a big fit and got a discount on a 360 Elite. Haven't had a problem since. I buy games from them, but I would trust their used consoles about as far as I could throw one of their stores.

i refuse to teach you what a monopoly is , ask your teacher or mommy or daddy but you are wrong. i myself use my EDGE card to buy used games yes. but find new games cheaper elsewere. sorry but you just dontunderstand what a monopoly is and i bet you dont have a clue what "ma bell " was .ans i dont feel like teaching you today maybe someone else will enlighten you or ask me again tomorrow i may feel more like teaching then

axxe, you are correct, and to the person that said they will ALWAYS sell video games? dont bet any money on that......best buy and other retailers are getting rid of huge sections of cd's because people basically dont buy cd's anymore, they dowmload songs.....they are even talking about getting rid of their cd departments completely. If something doesnt make money....its GONE....if people continue to go to gamestop exclusively, for whatever reason.....that 70% will go up and many retailers WILL get out of gaming because it doesnt turn a profit......basic economicsSpinbrett

this is soo true tho it sux i went to go buy some cds a month or so ago and there was such a slim collection compared to what they used to be....*sigh*

grunt....70% and growing......think about it....Spinbrett

You also have to think aboutplaces like Wal-Mart, K Mart, Sears, Best Buy, Circuit City, GameCrazy, CostCo, Sams Club, and Sam Goody.

Those stores are a fraction of the 100%. GameStop may be big, but never in a million years could they buy a few of those stores. So as long as they dont own 100% of the market, its not a monopoly

i refuse to teach you what a monopoly is , ask your teacher or mommy or daddy but you are wrong. i myself use my EDGE card to buy used games yes. but find new games cheaper elsewere. sorry but you just dontunderstand what a monopoly is and i bet you dont have a clue what "ma bell " was .ans i dont feel like teaching you today maybe someone else will enlighten you or ask me again tomorrow i may feel more like teaching then

fatty5xl

Looks like someone decided not to teach you what capital letters are.

Gamestop's big, but they don't control the market.

There's still Wal-Mart, Best-Buy, E-Bay, etc.

[QUOTE="Spinbrett"]grunt....70% and growing......think about it....SentryGunner411

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

A manager of a gamestop the other day told me that gamestop now owns like 70% of the video game market. They have basically bought everyone else out. I thought the govt said that was illegal because you can basically rip off whoever you want because they have no other options......?! How can gamestop own that much of the market, and getting bigger, and nobody say anything?Spinbrett

because you can buy games at walmart, target, bestbuy, the list goes on infinately. Now if they were the only place to buy games then it's a monopoly. Plus, the must mean %70 of video game specialty stores because walmart still owns like 40% of the games market in terms of selling.

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[QUOTE="Spinbrett"]grunt....70% and growing......think about it....BassKreator

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

nope were still a going i think we have close to 8% now up from the 5% we had just 2 years ago. which is huge when you sit and look at how tight the market is

Who'd they buy out EB? That's all I know of and as long as there's Best Buy I don't think they'll ever have a monopoly.grunt1096

Gamestop has lots of competition. The only thing they more or less dominate is used game sales in brick & mortar stores. There are plenty of ways to buy and sell used games on the internet though.

I wouldn't consider Gamestop to be a monopoly. I could easily never shop there again and still get everything I need.

A manager of a gamestop the other day told me that gamestop now owns like 70% of the video game market. They have basically bought everyone else out. I thought the govt said that was illegal because you can basically rip off whoever you want because they have no other options......?! How can gamestop own that much of the market, and getting bigger, and nobody say anything?Spinbrett

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[QUOTE="Spinbrett"]grunt....70% and growing......think about it....BassKreator

okay....well Microsoft owns 100% of the PC market and nobody says anything about their Monopoly....

Microsoft tried merging with Apple in the 90's this was during the period when they were getting sued for being a monopoly. They couldn't do it so instead of just absorbing Apple they are partners now. Apple still makes macs with their own OS but they also make Macs with windows. And macs have windows programs on them now too. And Apple products like itunes/ipod/iphone work with windows OS, windows even comes bundled with the itunes program. Yet in the commercials they "compete" against each other. Because even if you buy windows you are supporting mac in some way big or small and vice versa if you buy a mac you are supporting windows. They avoided the monopoly suit by just partnering to improve revenue instead of just boldy taking over the market.

Microsoft tried merging with Apple in the 90's this was during the period when they were getting sued for being a monopoly. They couldn't do it so instead of just absorbing Apple they are partners now. Apple still makes macs with their own OS but they also make Macs with windows. And macs have windows programs on them now too. And Apple products like itunes/ipod/iphone work with windows OS, windows even comes bundled with the itunes program. Yet in the commercials they "compete" against each other. Because even if you buy windows you are supporting mac in some way big or small and vice versa if you buy a mac you are supporting windows. They avoided the monopoly suit by just partnering to improve revenue instead of just boldy taking over the market. Ket87

[QUOTE="Ket87"]Microsoft tried merging with Apple in the 90's this was during the period when they were getting sued for being a monopoly. They couldn't do it so instead of just absorbing Apple they are partners now. Apple still makes macs with their own OS but they also make Macs with windows. And macs have windows programs on them now too. And Apple products like itunes/ipod/iphone work with windows OS, windows even comes bundled with the itunes program. Yet in the commercials they "compete" against each other. Because even if you buy windows you are supporting mac in some way big or small and vice versa if you buy a mac you are supporting windows. They avoided the monopoly suit by just partnering to improve revenue instead of just boldy taking over the market. teebeenz

are you kidding? there are windows apps on Mac's. Microsoft Word 2008,Microsoft Excel 2008, microsoft office 2008 for mac, Windows Media Player. the first two are correct though

>are you kidding? there are windows apps on Mac's. Microsoft Word 2008,Microsoft Excel 2008, microsoft office 2008 for mac, Windows Media Player. the first two are correct though KoRn_Eddy_88