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Post by wildojinx on Aug 13, 2012 9:44:49 GMT -5
What are some video games (old or new) that just WONT sell? For example, Wal-Mart still has Raw Danger and the Mortal Kombat 3-pack on shelves (worse yet, they wont discount the MK set). And then of course, there are the sports games from previous years.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 13, 2012 9:56:03 GMT -5
At my Wal-Mart it's that Cartoon Network Smash Bro's clone for the consoles, Metroid Other: M, Sin and Punishment and Rhythm Heaven for the Wii. In the case of the Wii games I can understand the first two not selling as they are both still being sold at full price (And sadly in both cases totally not worth paying full price) and I guess Rhythm Heaven is just "too Japanese" for the masses or something.
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Post by Bo Rida on Aug 13, 2012 10:03:20 GMT -5
Madworld is another Wii game, although that's more because they made so damn many of them rather than it not selling at all.
And I wish I could buy Sin and Punishment cheap too.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 13, 2012 10:10:49 GMT -5
when I worked at Blockbuster we were always overloaded with games that would never sell. the Fable series, for instance, we could drop the price to like 20$ brand new and we'd still have too many. Medal of Honour (the last one) was another one that just clogged up the shelves.
on a related note Disney wouldn't let us sell off excess rental copies of their movies at used prices so like 4 months later we'd still have like 150 copies of Prince of Persia on the shelf (and nobody rented it when it was new, either). then one day I'd be handed a destroy report and have to break down like 145 of them. same thing happened with Tron: Legacy and when we did our liquidation sale they sent an emergency order to destroy them because they didn't want us selling them at a discounted price. they were the ONLY company that did this. what a bunch of cheapskates.
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Post by The Sam on Aug 13, 2012 10:24:07 GMT -5
My local area;
Crackdown for 360. Mario Party 8 for Wii. InFamous for PS3.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 13, 2012 10:26:05 GMT -5
Those Cabela hunting games.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 13, 2012 10:26:10 GMT -5
that's interesting. when it first came out we couldn't keep Infamous on the shelf.
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Post by Biggtone23 on Aug 13, 2012 10:42:29 GMT -5
I know my local walmart has about 20 copies of the AC/DC rock band pack that have been sitting on the shelf since they first came out
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Post by xCompackx on Aug 13, 2012 10:44:17 GMT -5
Thinking about it, whenever I go to Walmart they always seem to have that MK 3-game set for PS2.
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Post by DrewVonAwesome on Aug 13, 2012 11:02:45 GMT -5
I still remember a Wal Mart in the area that got destroyed and is being rebuilt had a copy of Madden 2002 for the N64... in 2011.
Beat that.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 13, 2012 11:05:54 GMT -5
I still remember a Wal Mart in the area that got destroyed and is being rebuilt had a copy of Madden 2002 for the N64... in 2011. Beat that. Full price? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 12:17:12 GMT -5
At K-Mart we had at least 5 copes of Valkyria Chronicles 2
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Post by stealthamo on Aug 13, 2012 12:24:30 GMT -5
I still remember a Wal Mart in the area that got destroyed and is being rebuilt had a copy of Madden 2002 for the N64... in 2011. Beat that. Not as old a console, but there are two games that came out in 2003 for Playstation 2 that are still being sold at my Wal-Mart and have never been discounted: MLB 2004 (came out March '03) and .hack mutation (came out May '03). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 13:24:14 GMT -5
I still remember a Wal Mart in the area that got destroyed and is being rebuilt had a copy of Madden 2002 for the N64... in 2011. Beat that. I remember my local zellers having sealed copies of Super Spike V-Ball for the NES back in the early-mid 2000's |
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Post by agent817 on Aug 13, 2012 15:53:54 GMT -5
I have gone into Rite Aid and notice some video games that never go anywhere. I bought Victorious Boxers 2 and Space Channel 5 Special Edition there, but they have From Russia With Love, Kim Possible: What's The Switch?, Viewtiful Joe 2, and Star Trek Conquest.
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Post by kidglov3s on Aug 13, 2012 15:59:32 GMT -5
I can think of some stuff at Big Lots that clogs up their DVD stock. Namely Twin Peaks Season 2, for a long time Joey: The Complete Series.
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Post by Alucard on Aug 13, 2012 16:18:45 GMT -5
I bought Resident Evil: Code Veronica on the Dreamcast from Wal-Mart.
In 2005.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 13, 2012 18:00:37 GMT -5
I can think of some stuff at Big Lots that clogs up their DVD stock. Namely Twin Peaks Season 2, for a long time Joey: The Complete Series. Even though the topic is about video games, you mentioned DVDs and I can think of other DVDs I found at Rite Aid and Big Lots. I found a copy of xXx at Big Lots with the old stickers on there with some kind of special feature that was used for DVD-Rom that expired in early 2003. Same with when I looked through Wal-Mart's bargain bin and finding the original DVD release of The World Is Not Enough, with another sticker for some bonus offer that expired sometime in late 2000 or early 2001. I wonder if that copy of TWINE was at Wal-Mart the whole time or that DVD unit was found in MGM's stock and they distributed it to Wal-Mart so that they could sell it. Same with that copy of xXx. I wonder if Sony found an old DVD copy with the stickers on there and sold it to Big Lots, unless they had it all that time. I even noticed copies of Fire Pro Wrestling Returns at Big Lots and being a shelfwarmer. Same with Triggerman at CVS Pharmacy. |
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 13, 2012 18:14:32 GMT -5
At Gamestop, in the PS2 section (understandably whittling down), i see lots of tv show/movie tie-in games that must be slow sellers (the family guy game, the spider man movie games, and apparently there was even a tales of unfortunate events game). Also strangely, the "anthology" packs like sega genesis collection dont sell well either.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 13, 2012 21:39:57 GMT -5
I bought Resident Evil: Code Veronica on the Dreamcast from Wal-Mart. In 2005. In 2005? Wow, I never would have thought that. I remember back in 2002, I saw Britney's Dance Beat at Wal-Mart. I wanted to get it, but at the time, I thought that I would have looked weird buying it. I also noticed copies of Dark Void and MK vs. DC at Walmart that never went anywhere. |
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