Does Anyone Else Usually Wait Til Videogames Get Cheap?

[Swiss Ultimate]

Like, seriously, just now getting around to playing Gears of War with the wife.

Usually only get new videogames when it's something from Valve, or a special occasion like Christmas or my birthday. Also got the Orange Box and finished Portal in one sitting. Really loved it! Surprised I didn't have to go online for one of the puzzles.

[El Fangel]

Yes, no fucking way do I buy alot of games at full price. 95% of my collection was bought at pawn shops second hand.

[G]

I only buy like 3 games a year on release. Everything else I Goozex

[El Fangel]

If a game is very very hyped, then yeah Ill get it. If not then forget it.

[Fox]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa...

Your wife plays Gears with you? What a bad ass.

[Snowden]

I'll wait, unless its one of those rare games that'll take ages to drop down in price (see: Blizzard games)

[Fignuts]

Buy about 5 or 6 a year full price. Rest are bargain bin.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

I just buy used off eBay these days or for cheap (<$40) new.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

I buy most of my games in the Steam sales.

[Xero]

I used to, but now I just wait for the most part and get it Goozexed or used. Unless I REALLY want the game now or it has online play and will be replaced in a year, I wait.

Also, I do take advantage of Steam sales a lot.

[Dorkchop]

I got a 360 in the summer and have only bought one game at full price. There are a few new games I wouldn't mind owning, but in 6 months to a year I'll be able to get them for $20 or less. Plus I haven't gotten around to playing most of the games I picked up for it.

Nintendo never drops the prices of their games and if they do it's usually only by $5 or $10. Normally I'll buy those soon after they're released because I'll be paying the same amount after a year. I can hold off for third party games because they're usually reduced after a while.

[Grablot]

The only time I buy somethin on release day is if its mad hot like Bad Company 2 but most of the stuff I buy is when it goes down to at least $20.

[LuigiD]

I tend to wait. I get 1 or 2 new games a year..they tend to be games that I really want. I get most of my stuff for cheap from half.com months later.

[dronepool]

I play the cheaper older games in between playing the newer releases. I buy a couple at full price, something like Marvel vs Capcom 3, Arkham City, Fallout New Vegas, Red Dead... on release date but stuff like Shattered Dimensions and Infamous can wait.

[Emperor Smeat]

Majority of my game collection and games bought were either used copies or "old" games since I tend to buy games I want to keep playing for years or trade away games I don't care for anymore as a way to get discounts on newer titles.

Not counting downloadable games, most I've spent on an Xbox 360 game was $40 (GTA IV Episodes Disc) and maybe 3 times for $50 games on the Wii. Every other game was either bought at a discount from trade-ins or older titles.

[Funky Fly]

Buy about 5 or 6 a year full price. Rest are bargain bin.

Sounds about right.

[Kane Knight]

Buy about 5 or 6 a year full price. Rest are bargain bin.

Sounds about right.

[whiteyford]

I tend to preorder the games i want, anything im unsure about i wait till the sales kick in, im lucky if i buy 4 or 5 games a year as it is though.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa...

Your wife plays Gears with you? What a bad ass.

Also L4D and L4D2.

[OssMan]

I'm so backlogged with games that by the time I want to play something it's been 2 years since it came out so it's cheap by the time I buy it.

[Vox Populi]

I tend to get Madden on release day, and I did get Red Dead first day out, but I normally wait.

[Ultra Mantis]

It's pretty rare for me to get a game on release, especially when most of them get reduced significantly after they have been out a month or two.

[BigDaddyCool]

I already had a thread about this even.

[MoFo]

Spend like £40 on the main sports/FPS games on release (FIFA, COD, Fight Night etc), then shit myself with anger when they are reduced days later.

[DaveBrawl]

It's very rare that I end up buying a game for full price. The rate I play them is very random so I generally have 2 or 3 lined up at any time to play so I can wait for them to come down. AC: Brotherhood Smackdown 2011 and Forza 3 Ultimate were the last 3 that I got that were new, but they were gifts and AC was on sale.

I generally just like to browse Amazon or eBay and find what they have going on for around $10 or $15 and if it's something good I'll get it and play it whenever I get around to it. No use wasting money on something that is going to drop in price before I get around to playing it anyway.

[The Pope]

I wait for gamestop's deals, like the buy 2 used get 1 free. Or just wait for the price drop for games like CoD or Gears FPS in particular because those tend to have sequels meaning price drops.

[El Fangel]

I have never and will never pay for a sports game because people who do are fucking retarded.

You pay full price for a game you will play for a year and then you can find it in the bargain bin. NHL 09 is not that much different from NHL 10. Dont understand why people would pay such a ridiculous amount for a game with so few new features.

NHL 11 - $70
NHL 10 - $10
NHL 09 - $5
NHL 08 - $3
NHL 07 - $1

Those are the prices at my local EB games.