Console game prices

AMDPwred

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How much do places like Circuit City and Best Buy pay for each Gamecube (or any console for that matter)? Would anyone have any idea (maybe someone here works for them...)?
 

NeoV

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Big retailers, much like console game-makers, don't make very much at all off the consoles themselves, it is the games and peripherals that have all the margin.....

X-Box retail price of 299 is probably less than cost for MS...but they make money on every second controller sold, every piece of software...etc.etc...

Big retailers are probably paying about 260-280 per unit, but they only pay about 25% of a game's retail cost....
 

gygheyzeus

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PlayStation2's cost $260 US, then you add frieght to that... they dont make anything on the console it's self.
 

Midnight Rambler

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I think the only way any of them can get any X Boxes for a while is in those bundle deals. This probably hurts the retailer even more, now he is forced to make less on the games as they're in the bundle he has to buy from the wholesaler/distributor.
 

MrBond

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<< I think the only way any of them can get any X Boxes for a while is in those bundle deals. This probably hurts the retailer even more, now he is forced to make less on the games as they're in the bundle he has to buy from the wholesaler/distributor. >>

I think they "build" the bundles themselves, as there isn't really a "Standard" bundle. Each retailer is offering his own version of it. So they profit just as much (well, a little more b/c there's usually an extra cost thrown in there for the convienvence of preordering a bundle) as they would selling the stuff apart. They prefer bundles because they get the extra $20-30 kick (thinking $500 EBgames.com bundle, which included the xbox at $300, three games ($150) and the DVD Remote/controller ($30), plus the $15 additional "handling fee")
 

Smolek

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I believe Nintendo said something about GC being 192.00, but not 100% sure its for what your asking about
 

AMDPwred

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Damn. I ask because I plan on getting a Gamecube for Christmas and I was wondering how much they would be since my mom works for Corp Circuit City and she gets them at cost. Just hoping she wouldn't have to pay so much for it. But you guys say the games are cheap so at least I'll be able to get a bunch of games and controllers from her too:D