Attention all of you Canadian PS3 owners! If you purchase Haze when it comes out sometime this year at a EBGames Canada, you'll be able to return it and get the full value of the game back in store credit. The only thing you have to do is pre-purchase Haze. Once you've picked up the game, you'll be able to return it for full credit so long as your bring it back within seven days of the pickup date. If you try to return it after the seven days, you'll only get whatever the normal trade in credit would be.
The storyline should clock in around eight hours or so and the rest of the week can be spent playing the multiplayer. After that, you can use the credit to buy something else for the PS3. Of course, the PS3 hasn't been getting that many original titles or exclusive games so turning Haze around within a week might not be that great of an idea.
Unless you plan on doing what Editor-in-Chief Nick Chester does by playing the PS3 version of the game and then playing the same game for the 360 just for the achievements. Oh look at me, I'm Nick Chester, companies send me multiple versions of games all the time!" You disgust me ... please don't fire me.
[Thanks to electro lemon and lawl!]
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8:52 PM on 03.10.2008
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Wow...
As you would guess, this is used a lot by Achievement Whores, and you can never tell if the game you buy for new, is in fact new, or someone has already clocked a week of play on it. :P
This just in: if you’re Canadian, then (A) you probably won’t enjoy Haze enough to want to keep it, and (B) you’re a ninja at finishing games quickly.
I don't know, I checked Gamerankings.com to check out which games were rated at 80% or higher in the last six months.
360 = 25
PS3 = 21
That doesn't seem like a huge difference to me. Wii had 11 in the same time period, for reference.
If we're making arbitrary qualifications about what should count as part of a console's game library, one could argue that most people who own either console also own a PC. This would tend to erode the 360's advantage on exclusives more than PS3, as most of 360's heavy hitters are also available on PC.
More to the point, why bother having the discussion at all? My modest proposal:
No Blank Check For Endless Console War!
360 Exclusives (last six months, 80%+):
Rez HD
Project Gotham Racing 4
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Sensible World of Soccer
PS3 Exclusives (last six months, 80%+):
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Heavenly Sword
Can we call it a draw and never speak of this again?
I'd pre-order more games than I usually would.
What? I personally have only done the seven day return thing once. That game was Xenogears 2 for the PS2, and it was horrible. <.<
Also, pissy console fighting makes me laugh.
Working at Eb sucked the life out of me, but i will give them credit for that 7 day policy. It almost made you feel better about the fact that games cost $100USD. Took the risk out.
I kind of have ill feelings about pre-orders since CheapyD pointed out that eb makes instant profit from the interest your money makes sitting in their accounts.
It may also be good for free radical since once EB buy the copies from the distributor, free radical have their money. They may even buy more to cover all the pre-orders. BUT, you could also argue that in the long run it will mean Eb have to buy half as much because the second generation of customers will be buying the copies the first generation returned. double mark-up for Eb
Still, the refund policy is VERY good for business (in NZ at least).
@Necros:
The way it usually go down over here in shops like Game is that the returned copies are sold as 2nd hand games at a ridiculously high price (only £5 or £10 off a brand new copy) but people still buy those over a new copy and the store gets to keep all the profits from those sales because they are 2nd hand. I'm not sure if Gamestop is the same but maybe it works under the same lines
By selling crap to idiots, like they usually do.