Oh gamestop, how you must want us to hate you

Nintendo Wii is doing what it can to achieve what it was originally advertised to do; utilize motion control for all of its games in a revoluntionary way. Sure while the Wii does use motion control for just about all of it's games ( except the good ones: Smash Bros, and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom ), the player still isn't able to act out motions exactly as they want to. Instead, the player always has to waggle the controller in a specific series of directions to accomplish anything desired.
Hopefully, Wii MotionPlus helps games be more accurate in decoding the motions that users are doing and properly reflects them onscreen.

Good news for Wii owners; the Wii MotionPlus accessory is only $19.99... or at least thats the price Nintendo suggest.


source: store.nintendo.com

Amazon.com has the Wii MotionPlus listed for $19.99 too


source: amazon.com

Even BestBuy seems to think Wii MotionPlus should also cost $19.99

source: bestbuy.com



So what the fuck is gamestops deal ?! Here they have the same accessory listed at $24.99

source: gamestop.com

Sure at first glance $5 doesn't look like much of a price hike, but take a closer look at the situation.
Seeing as how the Wii is a casual system that focus on group play, it is rather safe to say that the average consumer is going to purchase more than one MotionPlus unit.
Buying 4 units of MotionPlus at standard price would look like this:
19.99 x 4 = $79.96 plus tax ( if my math is correct ) is 86.35

Now looking at gamestops price of $24.99 ( thats a 25% price hike )
25% x 4 = 100% ( simple math ) means that if you buy 4 MotionPlus from gamestop, then you could have bought 5 units from any other respectable game supplier.

Doing a little research on this subject, I found a response from gamestop with an excuse for their price.
Leaky Battery stepped up to ask gamestop why they hiked the price, and this is the email response gamestop sent:

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“Thank you for contacting GameStop.com. Unfortunately, we are at the mercy of the manufacturers. We must sell their items at the prices they tell us to sell them at. If Best Buy and Amazon are selling the items at a different price that is the deal they have with the manufacturer, we have no control over what kinds of deals other retailers make with manufacturers. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.”

Being the truth or a lie, regardless it's simply just another reason not to support gamestop.