Good read on the retail videogame marketplace..
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 - 11:05am
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&It...
Makes you now better understand the whole pre-order and bundle packaging mindset that goes on.
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You get to sell video games... AND rip off 10-year-olds? Dude, I'm there YESTERDAY.
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Good read, thanks GG.
The one indie game store in my town is run by a bunch of smelly asshats, but at least I am somewhat sympathetic to them now.
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It's a good read. Seems like the Publishers, by holding on to the majority of the profits, are strangling their own distribution avenues. A bit short sighted if you ask me, but I'm not in the boardroom making those decisions, like which crap movie they want to adapt next.
The hard part is that there's really no way to easily draw the line between publisher, distributer, and vendor proffits. They each want the money from the game, and they all think they deserve it because they work hard.
The only way to draw lines for each of them is to have some sort of mediator force that is imposed upon all three, or perhaps a monopoly situation where the vendor is the distributor is the publisher...
Yeah.. that'd be great. ;p
If Wal-Mart and BB are buying the game at $41, I will eat my shorts. No way Wal-Mart would allow that.
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why not? Walmart deals on high volume not neccesarily high margin..thats never been their model.
edit
though I suppose at Walmart's volume they're getting probably closer to $39ish
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My understanding, and my old company dealt with Sam's Club so it's a fairly informed opinion, is that Wal-Mart tells you what they will pay for your product. You accept their price or f*** off.
Simple as that. They are Wal-Mart and you are not.
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Packaging and reproduction costs ~$2
So really, the person getting screwed is you =)
Oh wait, you're paying for the content right?
And how much of that money goes to the people who created that content?
*sigh* And people wonder why piracy is rampant.
so...er..what they pay $1 then per title? They still have to purchase through a distributor.. I'm sure its pretty easy to discover which one they use for Videogame stuff... theres only a handful really.
Walmart EA blurb
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2004/02/27/rtr1279823.html
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You mean like Steam? Seems to be working okay for them so far.
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That's got to be slightly illegal. Distributors forcing retailers to pay over msrp for products?
Retail standards for msrp have always been based on 100% markup.
Talk about friggen greedy. When does the fed government corporate watchdog come in? This is absolutely disgusting!
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Edit: Good article on WalMart/EA, GG. Obviously the difference is that there are multiple sources of a can of soup or a loaf of bread (and the switching costs are low) but there's only one producer of Madden.
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