Comments on: Recession hits video gamers: playing more, spending less

By: Video gamer spends £10k on one game | BitterWallet

Video gamer spends £10k on one game | BitterWallet — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:11:35 +0000

[...] other day, we mentioned that video gamers are buying fewer new titles and are renting more games to support their habit during the current recession, yet they actually spend more time playing than [...]

By: ctuk

ctuk — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:56:40 +0000

I don’t mind paying full price for a pre-order of a “good game” e.g. Call of Duty.

but it does annoy me when they decide to set the RRP as £54.99 to push up the actual sale price of a game.

By: The Real Bob

The Real Bob — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:21:01 +0000

Heavenly Sword was something I wasn’t too worried about, I’d missed all of the £5 deals when they were on and popped in randomly to HMV, it was £7 so I bought it, it’s not as though I actively sought it out.

By: Rubisco

Rubisco — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:08:09 +0000

People are starting to realise that paying 5 times more for a game than for a CD or DVD is stupid. It’s just a disc, it doesn’t cost any more to manufacture. Games prices have been artificially inflated since they stopped being stored on expensive cartridges and it’s taken a recession to wake people up to this fact.

By: PC Gamer

PC Gamer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:53:21 +0000

You can exchange all formats of games at shops like CEX, Gamestation, Chips, and Gamestar. Even play.com lets you send in your old games as part trade for new ones.

In these shops you just exchange a game for a second hand version of what you want, which means paying just a few extra quid. You even find new releases turning up only a few weeks later as second hand in these shops for half the retail price.

Rental is okay, but some games take weeks or months to finish and enjoy fully.

By: Gary glitter

Gary glitter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:34:29 +0000

Bob has it spot on, I’m sick of paying £40 for a game on the day of release only to have it hit £20 within a month. I’ve picked up games cheaper months later, for example I reckon within the next month the price of Call f Juarez Bound in Blood will break the £20 boundary whether that be online or in stores.

By: Matt Beeching

Matt Beeching — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:44:13 +0000

Like many others I bought so many games in the last couple of years i’m spending the time catching up. Last year was excessive! Looking forward to a few new titles later in the year though.

By: N20Y1D

N20Y1D — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:02:03 +0000

Real Bob, you waited a bit longer than “a couple of month” for heavenly sword.

By: N20Y1D

N20Y1D — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:01:23 +0000

SimbaK2K – why not just use a 3 month free trial code?

By: The Real Bob

The Real Bob — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:00:22 +0000

I just wait a couple of months until it drops to about £15, I picked up Heavenly Sword in HMV for £7 the other day, I have a queue of games I’m waiting to play so I can wait 6 months for the price to drop.

By: SimbaK2K

SimbaK2K — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:46:53 +0000

Definately renting games & blu-rays. Buying is just so expensive and its a place where its pretty easy to cut back.

Instead of £30 on a game and maybe £20 on a blu-ray film I pay £15 and get any 2 discs at a time from lovefilm. If the game is crap it goes back and I get something else (instead of selling it on) and films I only ever watch once anyway.

However I do still purchase iphone apps and games but these are reasonable cheap anyway aswell as the odd other game by steam or online purchase.