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AusGAF 5/5 - Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy, a rental at best
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shanshan310
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So, finally a tracking update on my PS3:
Fifteen days just to enter Australia when Amazon quoted 8-16 for the full turnaround. Still, at least it's coming. Now I just have to figure out how to sort this out with Amazon, given that I'm currently in the situation that the total exchange of cash is them giving $2 to me to accept this delayed PS3.
Shanshan, did yours get an update too?
Not recently. It was due on the 15th :S
Why did it arrive in Australia twice though?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH.
Are they?
Considering that every K-Mart, Big W, Myer, Target, JB all have games / console sections on top of GAME and other state centric retailers (WoW Sight & Sound), i think they'd survive. Particularly Nintendo on their Marquee titles.
You don't buy Mario 3DS because you walked into EB, you went to EB because you wanted Mario 3DS, they don't have it, you go to the next place.
BanShunsaku
Member
This.
From what I've experienced when shopping in EB most of their sales seem to come from mothers buying games for little Timmy's "game boy".
Err, more like:
EB to Nintendo: "Gametraders are selling imports, let us sell Australian copies or we'll start selling imports too"
They were one of the few places that continued to sell GC product until it was discontinued.
Not quite that far back but yeah. EB was how I got my GC Twilight Princess
A pity the game was boring.
KoF is NOT the franchise Mario is. Never was / will be.
Back that up with an advertising campaign from Nintendo co-sponsored by GAME/JB....
Things change quickly if people want them too.
I ended up with two of them due to forgetting about a preorder at a different store (EB having presold) and sold the other copy at a nice profit a week later.
Also that website with the 240GB SSD has broken itself with trafffic :[
The reverse is, how much of EB's business is Nintendo product? if they're selling that much, probably massive also.
giri you are applying logic to where logic to somewhere logic does not exist, the games industry
what you say is right, but managers would be to busy looking at spreadsheets with negative numbers to sit back and think it through like that
Maybe, but i dare say that EB's margins are tighter, and it would hurt more, from the pull. It might impact nintendo , if they do the correct advertising campaign to make people aware of where to get it, but probably less than it would directly hurt EB.
Now i also get why EB would start selling immediately to compete with the people importing. I either buy online or import too. But the reason i import isn't convenience or the like, it's the severe price gouging, which both sides are part of. So breaking street dates on that flimsy excuse is a very weak point, IMO.
I think we had a few that never got picked up, so a mate asked if we had any and then bought one. Finished it and sold it for ~$150 about 6 months later.
ebay prices now are $99 to $120, so much more reasonable, but I held onto mine. $50 isnt much profit. Never played it either, the Wii version was good enough for me.
I do miss the old gamecube days, so many games were a nice surprise on it. I bought mine for REmake, and grabbed mario sunshine and monkey ball with it. Monkey target is a god-tier game. Simple and phenomenally good fun. I remember being vaguely aware of wind waker, had no interest in it, then we got a store demo. It was like watching a living, breathing cartoon. Still is. Grabbed that on day one.
Other chance purchases included chibi robo, donkey konga, pac man vs, mario strikers (5 minute + sudden death hilarity and being unable to breathe from laughter) and of course animal crossing import. I wasted whole weekends on bass fishing tourneys.
Such a criminally underrated system.
Also EB went through their first phase of importing games for it and selling them second hand. There was one day where we got a preowned carton shipment full of games including skies of arcadia legends, tales of symphonia, baten kaitos and a few other obscure ones I forget. This was well after they were discontinued though, so it was a goldmine for collectors.
I'm still annoyed we never got Ribbit King in stock, but I finally managed to find a copy of that this year on ebay. Frolf is ridiculous.
roosters93
Member
So this talk of old video games convinced me to get the old dirty and dusty Commodore 64 out of my garage that I found in there earlier this year. But it doesn't connect to my CRT.
Cubivore?
shanshan310
Member
Big PS3 shaped package just arrived
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
But it doesn't connect to my CRT.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What's the problemo?
Yeah the GameCube is such a nice machine. That and my NES are the only consoles I've bothered to keep.
Wind Waker, Killer 7, Eternal Darkness, MGS: Twin Snakes, Resident Evil4, Tales of Symphonia (still the only JRPG I've been able to finish), VIEWTIFUL JOE! I was sick soon after I got VJ and played most of it with my TV on a table by my bed lol.
Never really got into REmake. I own WarioWare too but never played much of it. Twisted was my crack
Wind Waker, Killer 7, Eternal Darkness, MGS: Twin Snakes, Resident Evil4, Tales of Symphonia (still the only JRPG I've been able to finish), VIEWTIFUL JOE! I was sick soon after I got VJ and played most of it with my TV on a table by my bed lol.
Never really got into REmake. I own WarioWare too but never played much of it. Twisted was my crack
That's the one! There are a few other obscure games I really wanted to play back then, but they were either US or Japan only games.
I also regret trading in a lot of my GC games because I was still in school so didn't have much game money. I've been slowly buying some of my favourite games back, but it's just not the same.
DualShadow
Member
Just noticed the Gaming, Off Topic and Community tabs have been added to the Subscriptions page.
It's new right?
Aw... no more "I should have imported SM3DL" posts to enjoy reading...Oh hey guys what's up?
Neverender
Member
Oh hey guys what's up?
That's not the right receipt by the way... If it even matters, that's the EFTPOS receipt, not the actual transaction.
Ive got more GC games than I ever had total on PS2 or XBox. I dont get how it did so bad in its time, when it turns out to have a shockingly deep library in hindsight.
Big PS3 shaped package just arrived
It's actually a giant book
mind = blown, I've been wanting that for so long
roosters93
Member
All the inputs my TV has are RF, S-Video and composite.
The video cord for my C64 is none of these. It has 6 pins and looks like this:
http://imgur.com/ZmMSA
http://imgur.com/jBB1U
Yup I know, which is why I have this
Neither copy is mine, I don't have it. Nor Zelda.
bodyboarder
Member
Are there any Mario + 3ds bundles around/announced?
Keep fighting the bad fight.
Not in Australia, but there is a White 3DS + Mario one from the UK you could import.
Choc, Nintendo isn't going to do anything. Sadly.
Oh... sorry for my earlier comment then. I don't really enjoy your "should have imported" posts...
Well, maybe a little...
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