I was checking Gamestop's website the other day as I was curious about picking up Fallout: New Vegas (I had originally rented it from Gamefly for about a month :whistling: ). Anyway, I was surprised to see how much the price has dropped. In case you were curious New Vegas is now $17.99 dollar pre ownerd ($19.99 new)! Link: http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/fallout-new-vegas/74571

So I was curious, is this normal? I decided to check some other games (keep in mind Fallout New Vegas came out on October 19, 2010):

• Red Dead Redemption (May 18, 2010): $32.99 Pre owned, $39.99 new. Link: http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/red-dead-redemption/74711
  
• Call of Duty Black Ops (November 9, 2010): Regular Pricing - $49.99 Pre owned, $59.99 New. Online Pricing - $44.99 Pre owned, $49.99 New. Link: http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/call-of-duty-black-ops/77794
  
• Vanquish (October 19, 2010): $32.99 Pre owned, $39.99 New. Link: http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/vanquish/77278
  
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (November 10, 2009): Regular Price - $27.99 Pre owned, $49.99 New. Online Pricing - $24.99 Pre owned, $39.99 New. Link: http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2/74393?loc=preowned_row6_col1

Anyway the list goes on, I was simply surprised to see how quickly the price dropped (6 months?). Do you guys think I should pick it up at that price? If I buy two used games I get the third for free :intergalactic:

It's never a bad time to own F:NV on the PC.

2 of the 4 examples you included are COD games which are famous for holding their release price for years. The third, Red Dead Redemption surprisingly and annoyingly keeps insisting on a fairly high price.

Never heard of vanquish, it's probably so unremarkable they forgot to put it in the bargain bin?

But yeah, a price drop like this is fairly normal even with popular titles as long as they're not COD.

Yep, a games price is not always a show of game quality.

Yeah COD games tend to keep their price high, but Vanquish is a little bit weird. It wasn't really a big hit and I only heard about it a few days prior to its release (I follow Kotaku).

I bought New Vegas about a week ago for $20

lol...you're in denial, popularity of new vegas and game sales has dropped a lot and in a pretty short time, and there's several games that came out a year or more ago and are still fairly high priced, new vegas has lost is appeal quickly, the reason the price is so low now is because its not selling !!!, lots of people know the game has almost no replay value, it has a static environment/gameworld and its just not fun to play over and over and over again like better games are. gamespots 7.5 rating is more than generous i think, the low price of the game so soon after coming out just proves the game isn't very popular anymore, its just an average game that gets old very quickly, obsidian went 2 steps forward and 3 steps backward with the game, they were too concenred with pleasing the original fallout game fans and didn't make the game nearly dynamic or interesting enough to keep todays gameplayers interested for very long, this isn't the 90's, and making the game like a 90's video game was a bad idea.

Dude, aren't you tired of typing up a new wall of text with no punctuation every single time? Maybe you should just make a thread saying "static game world blabla" and post the link everywhere.

Yawn. Are you incapable of posting anything remotely new or interesting? Or have you lost the ability to do anything over than click copy and click paste?

You post the exact same thing everytime.

its the reason the game isn't selling anymore, so get over it

You so want that to be true, don't you?

And where's your proof that the game isn't selling anymore?

Then again, you have a habit of making claims and then refusing to offer proof or sources and instead just ridicle those who don't agree with you.

ie: 'Get over it'. 'You're in denial' etc

Where i live the game went from ￡40 down to ￡25 after only 3 weeks! I was slightly pissed off.
Sales must have dipped pretty quickly after the initial surge of buyers.
For the next fallout i'll prob wait a month, get it for a good price, also get some feedback on the game before i buy it, dont want to buy another buggy mistake like NV.

well I think that $20 price tag is a special promotion for gamestop not the actual price
Newegg and amazon aswell as the stores around here are at about $40

of course where i am they JUST put halo 3 in the $20 bin.... seriously

F:NV doesn't have a muliplayer component... so it's not as valuable on the market.

I was just thinking about that. The people that bought this on day one really got screwed :sadvaultboy: However, I doubt the next Fallout game will go down in price as fast. Bethesda will be developing it so they have more money to throw at it then Obsidian did (more marketing, more previews, etc), plus they have a larger team to work on the project. I also presume Bethesda will use a modified version of the new creation engine to hype the game up as well, were Obsidian could only really hype up the story because they couldn't change the actual engine.

They did that because I came on and flipped out about the xbox live dlc deal and told them I wasn t buying it again when I swithed to PS3.

I told them I d wait 2 years for some goty edition, and I d by it used. I also called Bethesda out for flaming, because it states right in the fourm rules that we can t put each other down for which platform we play on. Well Bethesda put pc and ps3 users down. I told the mods that Bethesda should get 2 flame warnings. The post got locked in like 2mins, but they got the message. Not even 2 months later the dlc was out, the other dlcs will come out simultaneously on all platfoms, and they dropped the price $30 00. Yeah, that was because of me. I bought another brand new copy just for them, because I knew they knew that what they did was wrong.

the proof is in the pudding, for it to go from 59 dollars to 19 dollars in such a short time makes it pretty obvious sales have dropped off significantly.

You do know how economics of video game production works right? After the official round of development and production, they have a high price in order to cover the dev and production costs, after this, when it is time to widen profit margins and increased sales by decreasing sales price, while keeping over production costs.

Same reason the PS3 and Xbox decreased in price less than a year after the initial releases.

I have to with westoftherockies here. Good stuff costs money. Other stuff gets sold cheap. Though its a good game IMO if it was still selling it wouldn t be so cheap

Thats why fo3 was still 49 95 3 years later, because people really wanted it. Say what you want, but go to the car lot and look at the cheapest car. Then go look at the most expensive car. You ll see a difference. Maybe if cl wasn t such cream puffs and there were actually more than 10 of them in the wastes it would be a little more fun.

I thought it was only on sale for a few months, but now that its droped even more.............its not good. I m going to go walk around and do nothing for a bit. I ll be back.

Please. RDR has kept that price for a while now for a reason. FNV HELL NO!! It tells you alot about the game sometimes if they sell it like that price for a while. Its a good selling game. Kept peoples attention. Rock star games are great quality games.

fo3 is still probably $19.99 new. Say what you will, good is not cheap. Thats why COD BO WHICH I HATE is still at the same price it was new, because it is flying off the shelves. I hope Bethesda dosen t go bankrupt.........then I ll never know what happened at the end of nv.

This, nuff said and I mean nuff said so nuff said

nope not nuff said

I actually bought four of those examples and FNV on or close to release and FNV is the only one I felt I shouldn't have bought, just didn't seem worth the price.

Now I don t agree here. I bought it the night it came out and all the hrs I have in it says it s worth the money.

Thing is the dropping price says something about what most people think. I beleive they r saying it s not as good as the others out there. That is bad...............