Because of the good price I got on that I happily ordered MW2 from shopto for 43 quid. Bit gutted I guess at the way the pricing has gone today but that is the chance you take. Over the course of a year at say a new release game a month i believe you would get better value from shopto.

To top it all though today my daughter rubbed it in by picking up 2 copies from Sainsburys with 15% staff discount on top! She says that price is today only by the way.

Therefore, I’ll be heading off to Sainsbury’s in a couple of hours to hopefully pick up MW2 for £26.

Supermarkets are devaluing the game industry much like they are the greeting card sector and childrens school wear at the moment, and have done to many other sectors in the past. Things may be becoming cheaper on our wallets perhaps (in the short term at least), but also poor quality and disposable.

In a few years there will only be supermarkets left selling us everything we need, they will be our one stop source for ABSOLUTELY everything.
They will also be our ONLY banks, travel agents, insurers, estate agents etc and most worryingly obviously the only employers in these sectors.

It may sound far fetched but if we have no choice in where to spend our money other than the supermarket, and if they are also our bankers, (bakers, candlestick makers), insurers etc etc, then most of us will work for a supermarket as there will be no other retail/services jobs.

Tesco will probably become so powerful they will pay their employees in products from the shelves – I mean, why give people wages if there is nowhere else to spend them anyway!? haha

What the Supermarkets are doing to the games industry is no different to what’s they did to other retail sectors – when was the last time you went to a proper butcher/fishmonger/bakery? (Greggs doesnt count lol).

Back to games – when HMV/Game/all the Indies etc are gone (or all turned into tiny Cinemas/mobile phone concessions in HMV’s case) we’ll be left with supermarkets selling a narrow selection of rubbish, boring, ugly, cheap and nasty piffle – much like George at Asda clothing.

But our wallets are more important, I know that, but I think we’ll regret it in the end.

On the bright side: when Asda begin their game trade-in service perhaps we’ll be able to swap our old copy of Modern Warfare 2 for a few quid store credit and spend it on Smartprice beans! ha

I do feel a level of sympathy for the indie game shops who clearly can’t compete, but if they want me to spend extra at their shops they need to offer me something extra and I’m afraid heavy metal music and the feint smell of dope isn’t enough to justify the extra 25 quid.

And yes, it’s super hard for developers at the moment. There are some (particularly in Brighton and a few other pockets in the south) who are thriving, but the development community in the north east seems to be having a really tough time right now. It used to be such a thriving area as well.

If it turns out that we can only get our games from the big 4 supermarkets, then so be it! we will get the savings! Anyone who likes a drink will know this is a good example of savings for shopping in suppermarkets: coming up to xmas last year: 2 creates of stella (24 bottles) = £16 in ASDA. 24 bottles in local offie = £30!?!?! SOOO… MW2 £26 in Sainsburys or MW2 in indi-shops £40-£45…wont take long before people treat gaming like booze! lol

The price of MW2 is the problem. If it were standard retail price then it might not be as big a deal.

F ‘em, gaming is one of the biggest industries in the world, if you can’t make money out of it as a publisher, distributor or retailer you don’t deserve to be in business.

It’s some of the devs I feel sorry for especially some British ones, as this country has long been a mainstay of this creative industries but because other countries give tax breaks, develoent is moving abroad and jobs along with creativity are lost.