Online gaming publication Kotaku is reporting that a source close to GameStop has told them that the company printed a few thousand copies of Xenoblade Chronicles with no shrink-wrap in order to restock their inventory, then labeled them as pre-owned. The company then decided to charge $90 for the acclaimed game. The gaming publication contacted GameStop and was told that the company is looking into the matter.
Thanks, Iceazeama
Sicker. It’s time to change the shower curtian, it’s old and dirty :/
Agreed…
It needs to have a Nintendo type of feel…
Preferably showing Mario using the Xbox Done as a jump box…
You sir… are my boss.
I will follow and Nintendo till the very end of the age.
And together we shall triumph against evil (Microsoft) and beat the Sonyans back to the 8-Bit age…
Ill just enjoy my xbox one and ps4 because I can afford both. I currently use my wii u as a coaster because it HAS NO GAMES!
Nobody cares about you, your money and your opinions…
No one cares about your life. End it.
Wow you really love me…
You are either Jellybean or just another ape…
The same could be said for you oh blinded one.
Says the illegal pirate…
The 8 bit age was great. No DLC, no COD, just great single player campaigns with great stories.
Everyone GAMEFLY “SELLS” THIS GAME FOR 50 DOLLARS DO YOUR SELF A FAVOR AND SIGN UP FOR THE FREE 15 DAY TRIAL THEN RENT XENOBLADE CANCEL ACCOUNT BEFORE 15 DAY FREE TRIAL PERIOD IS OVER BAMM 50 dollars for a great RPG !!!!!
That’s pretty fucked up
I am not willing to pay $90 for a game…
Australians pay this and more for every game.
yeah they also make twice as more money as us ($18/hour average Minimum) when ours is $6-$8/hour, lets talk about that, yeah.
And that proves what? That they still get charged more. The only way their money is of any usable wort is online.
How is it their money is only use able online?
Prices in Australia are made in projection with their earnings forward exsample a tomato in Australia cost a 1$ a pound while if they buy it online it will cost them 50¢ same has consoles. Australian money power is better used online.
Yeah like me or any other Australian will go online as half the time the games are region locked with no PAL
shut up you fucking retard, they get way more pay than the us yet all you guys ever do is bitch about shit being more expensive. yeah it would be nice to be charged more for way better pay!!!!!!
This dosnt make sence Ben.
It does though. Prices are relative to wages. If people make more money, they can afford to spend more, so prices rise. It’s pretty simple.
he doesnt even know what an opinion means…… dont even try to make sense.
Australia’s minimum wage is a lot lower than that. Around 12-14.
Read up on currency exchange rates moron.
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Hahahaha, what retart would belive this when it actually makes more sence selling them new for 100$?
And productions cost would make this move not profitable.
If they are selling new Nintendo has to get a cut of the money which they printed their own and selling as pre owned they cut Nintendo’s profits and GameStop makes and keeps ALL the money
But Nintendo is the one that prints the games not gamestop. Nintendo will still know and want their cut regardless.
Wait wait wait Nintendo isn’t printing no more new games though
Exactly, what gamestop probably did is open a unsold box of xenoblades and sold them has used.
Most Probable
so basically there selling knockoffs as used games.
I’ll pay. Trade in a few games to do it though. And I never trade-in games but I need that game.
Maybe Nintendo should fucking do something at give us either more physical copies or put it on the eShop….
>Wii games
>eShop
Plus it’s Monolith Soft that made this game, not Nintendo.
….fuck, you’re stupid.
Sure I am, but we share the stupidity <3
No, because Nintendo OWNS Monolith, they can and should distrubute the game.
Look at the active discussion.
I realize that they could just distribute more physical copies, but who knows if there’s a problem behind it.
Nintendo owns Monolith Soft, So it’s up to Nintendo whether they would put Xenoblade Chronicles on the WiiU eShop. But knowing Nintendo it will probably never happen.
I don’t think it’s even possible to put Wii games on the eShop.
Only because Nintendo doesn’t want to do it, It is possible to put it on the eShop if Nintendo were willing to put the effort into doing so.
Sony puts PSone and PS2 games on the PS Store for PS3, PSP games on PSVita Store.
Microsoft puts Xbox games on Xbox 360 Marketplace.
You don’t know how the Wii mode works or..?
Of course if they put a large amount of effort into tweaking the system it could work, but I don’t really see that coming.
What are you, stuck in the Gamecube era?
PS2 games have been available on the PS3 for years. Why can’t fucking Wii games be on the WiiU eShop? No excuse.
Maybe how the Wii U and its Wii mode were put together?
Wii and Wii U games were differently. That’s why the easiest way to do backward compatibility was making the Wii emulator (Wii Mode) on Wii U and each Virtual Console game needed to be modified for a Wii U eShop release using a Virtual Console emulator designed to run for Wii U rather than Wii.
If they wanted to market Wii games as Virtual Console games, they would first need to develop a Wii Virtual Console emulator that would work for Wii U without going into Wii Mode, as Wii games cannot be sold through the Wii Shop Channel due to their file size, but can be sold easily through the Wii U’s eShop.
With all the Wii controllers and accessories compatible with Wii U, it would be a waste of potential profit if seven years of games didn’t come to Wii U in some way or another. We already have Wii Mode for the Nintendo Shop Channel, but the retail games need a way to be resold too.
because you have a bunch of people using old exploits to try to hack the wii-u side of the console
Yea that’s a good reason..
nintendo isnt printing anymore wii games buddy the wii is dead. i got my copy when it released over a year ago for $40 you should’ve did the same but you didn’t and now your butt hurts having to pay $90 for a gamestop printed knockoff.lmfao!!!
Yeah, no Wii games came out this year. Like Pandora’s Tower. Oh wait.
Stop making excuses.
Stop bringing up stupid arguments over this article. It makes no sense.
a valid argument, you label it as stupid cuz you find no better excuse, lame
how did you like pandoras tower?? to me it was better than zelda SS or overhyped garbage. it was really good, underrated. probably the most underrated wii game.
WHAT ARE U TALKING ABOUT I PURCHASED THE GAME LAST YEAR 2012 AND PANDORA’S TOWER IS A OLD GAME THAT WAS JUST PORTED TO NA REGION IN APRIL.AND THEY PROBABLY DID THAT TO BURN OFF THE LAST OF THERE INVENTORY LIKE I SAID THE WII IS DEAD ALL FOCUS IS ON WII-U & 3DS.
shit just got real
90 Bucks?, well that’s the normal price for games here in México.
you must sell a lot of oranges . lmfao!!! just kidding!!!
Yeah but I watched a documentary on T.V once that said prices in Mexcio are so high because everyone just steals or pirates games and movies and songs so stores/vendors have to sell their stuff at high prices for those who LEGITIMATELY buy their stuff so they can actually make money. Theft is way too high in Mexico…
The worst thing that gamestop would have done with the game is remove the plastic from some unsold games and sell them has used and that’s it.
piratebay. the end!
Ew.
you can get someone to hack your wii for way less than 90 bucks or you can just do it yourself like it did not too hard
I did*
you are a fucking faggot
that would be you and your piece of shit family.
says the one that really replied to me
i can believe you are such an idiot to even read my post
says the useless pathetic insect who made an uneducated reply to my comment. I enjoy putting fucking dumbass clowns like you in their place.
sorry, I dont know what you mean with “in their place” as i dont feel humiliated, educated or even insulted
well you should. being a retard imbecile online or the real world won’t get you anywhere.
again, not feeling insulted or whatever you intent to
is pretty lame you keep replying(irnoy is I still do as well)
I already told your dumb-ass I love putting stupid clowns like you in their place. which part of that didn’t sink in your hollow head.
>lame you keep replyin
again
I’ll continue until your ignorant clown ass gets it.
>>>>>>>>>>>lame you keep replying again
says the useless piece of shit clown who keeps saying that in a reply. keep entertaining me.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>lame you keep replying again
and you’re still a clown.
again
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>lame you keep replying again
and you’re still a piece of dog shit who apparently likes entertaining me.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagain
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>lame you keep replying again
and you’re still a brainless assclown.
not gonna copy/paste since i got bored, but the point is the same
that’s right. the point being that a moron such as yourself is quite entertaining.
and yet you keep replying to a “moron”, making you way more moron
just keep being entertaining to me you stupid moronic laughable clown.
the more you keep replying, the more you entertain me as well
only difference is you’re extremely stupid so I’m getting more out of it. you’re my little pet clown.
dont you see you only reply to me?
im not even trying and yet you reply
I think the pet clown is someone else
quit trying to act 1% intelligent clown. you’ll continue to entertain me until I tell you otherwise you got that. every time I play my xenoblade from piratebay I remember how much of a funny fuck your are.
you are such a clown
go on, tell me to stop, ill be glad to continue to fuck up a bit longer
don’t go absolute retard on me just yet pet boy. I’m not sick of you yet. xenobalde is so much fun when it’s free.
do you think I give a flying fuck?
Free stuff is fine, but paid pirated stuff is just you shitting on the devs work, not paying and giving thanks for the game
stfu pet clown. I’d rather pirate than spend 90 for any fucking game any day. if you love wasting money like that on one game that’s your retarded problem.
Thief.
not really.
Well deserved when you’re a big enough idiot to shell out 90 bucks for a generic game.
Generic game ? You must be a final fantasy 13 13-2 lover haha this is one of the best jrpgs to Come out in the last 10 years BTW why pay 90 when you can pay 50 at gamefly
generic……. no, maybe you just didnt like it, try fucking final fantasy, generic to the bone. this is one of the best games last gen if not the best for some people. this gamefly thing was such a smart idea, how many copies do you think they have though????
This ^ hmm I wouldn’t have a clue for all we know game stop probably sold a lot of copies to gamefly but its a smart work around I tried it as I mentioned but I don’t know how many times one can do it before getting their account banned or “blacklisted”
yeah…… like how many copies could they possibly get of this game. im glad i got it day one, i really wasnt expecting anything that great, just got it because the wii sucks and that i though it was cool how big the game is. after like a few hours it ended up being awesome.
I sadly was late to the operation rainfall I supported Pandoras tower and got the last story cheap and xenoblade was the final one I got I had searched high and low for this game over 100 miles I traveled to get a great price just to fall short but in the end I found a loophole it works people jump on that deal
There is nothing “generic” about Xenoblade, dude.
http://youtu.be/aSYluIbAZgU
LMFAO
NO SRLY NINTENDO IS TIME FOR YOU TO GET THIS GAME ON EVERY RETAIL AND IF ITS POSSIBLE WII U ESHOP.
SHAMESTOP IS DOING MORE MONEY THAT U SO GET YO SHIT TOGETHA
Yeah its a source going to kotaku. I would take anything they publish with a grain of salt.
im just wondering if x on wii u can be as good as this game…… im not going in with any hopes. the dolls just looked lame, like way to ruin the exploration. also if its online then another way to go.
X looks fantastic. The “Dolls” (huge ass robots!) looked friggen sweet. Never played Xenoblade, but I am sure as hell going to get X!
Those are some pretty serious accusations. Is there any evidence to back this up? Otherwise, for all we know, it could be bullshit.
The only suspicious thing is that suddenly the stock came back not in one but in many Shamestops. And then they started promoting the game.
That’s still not proof though. I’m not saying that it couldn’t have happened, but this needs to be investigated properly before people jump to any conclusions.
It is kinda proof to the extent that Gamestop HAS no proof to show that they restocked legitimate Xenoblades. How did they randomly get all these pre-owned versions? Did Gamestop buy them off ebay to resell as used?- That is the only way this rumor will be debunked.
I don’t accept “kinda proof” and “rumours”, and neither does any other person with a university level education.
Look Lucas’ comment, a few down from mine. That is the kind of moronic reaction that these rumours provoke. He doesn’t question it at all and simply accepts it as fact.
This is why rumours are dangerous.
Stay classy Gamestop. ;)
Wonder why this news doesn’t surprise me. As soon as I heard Gamestop was restocking Xenoblade and it cost $90 I was a little suspicious from the get go…okay maybe a LOT suspicious from the get go!
That’s just dumb. They should charge maybe 40-50 at most.
Wow Gamestop are dirty bast$&!s!!! I’m half tempted not to buy from them anymore.
I don’t get it, so they’re selling new games as used games? I don’t really get the uproar, this game brand new is going for like 150-200 USD.
Gamestop has strengthened my boycott against them again… They’re abusing their privilege to have this game exclusive. If they really cared about gamers, they would print more copies and sell them for $60.
Oh, I get it now, so they’re saying these games are pre owned and that they’re limited and thus inflating the price.
We’ll have to wait for confirmation as to whether or not this is true, but if it is they’re going to see some serious fallout from this. It’s really short-sighted to attempt to hoodwink your customers in this manner.
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