Rail Simulater For £14.99

[growler37]

Brown woolly socks are buy one get one free at tescos this week i have been trying to work out the point of this thread darned if i can work it out .
i also thought advertising was against the forum rules.
Answers on a postcard please
Kevin

[bigvern]

I think the *point* is that Rail Simulator has taken a rapid tumble to the bargain basement price level, certainly earlier than you would normally expect a six month old game to do so.

[shortbart]

Mayber it sells not good

(As a Pupil of a Commercial-School, I would say yes, that´s the reason )

[growler37]

Train sims are never going to be best sellers,its a niche market,the same thing happened to MSTS1, i paid £40 when it was first released,3months later it was £25,same with Tainz 2006,six months after release it was on Amazon for £10!,i bought Call of duty 4 some weeks back, for £18.99, so KRS is following the market trends, its par for the course, what the games retailers sells today,it forgets tommorow! the most important thing with KRS is it is still under development by its developers.
So i think its good that KRS is getting cheaper, it will encourage more to buy it, its really refreshing to see a new generation of talented and keen train simmers emerging with KRS! its a sort of changing of the guard.
Kevin

[simuk]

its par for the course, the games industry releases today,and forgets tommorow!

I'd just like to point out that actually the games industry releases and doesn't forget tomorrow. It'll be retailers who are usually/largely causing the prices to tumble, through agressive discounting and wanting the product from the distributors cheaper and cheaper so as they can keep making the same sort of profit margins, despite selling the product(s) at an ever lower price.

So maybe a more fitting phrase would have been "Retail stocks today, and forgets tomorrow!". They just want to shift numbers, or not bother.

Simon
Just Trains

[growler37]

its par for the course, the games industry releases today,and forgets tommorow!

I'd just like to point out that actually the games industry releases and doesn't forget tomorrow. It'll be retailers who are usually/largely causing the prices to tumble, through agressive discounting and wanting the product from the distributors cheaper and cheaper so as they can keep making the same sort of profit margins, despite selling the product(s) at an ever lower price.

So maybe a more fitting phrase would have been "Retail stocks today, and forgets tomorrow!". They just want to shift numbers, or not bother.

Simon
Just Trains

Hi Simon
your absolutley right,i should have said retailers! thats what i was trying to say(except very badly)
kevin

[bigvern]

Bit of a bump but I couldn't help noticing on Amazon.com, the price for Rail Simulator has now been slashed to $7.99. The "budget" version of MSTS is actually more expensive, at $12.99.

Just reporting, not reading anything into it but whatever your take on RS, there's not going to be much return at that price which works out at around £4.20 GBP. That's less than a UKTS community CD...

[mearle73]

I would have thought the money was always going to be in the add ons,the larger the user base the better,even if you sold the orignal game for a few quid after 9 months.Anyway off topic has any one found a cure for the stalling trains yet?

[rabid]

On the positive side maybe this super low price will tempt some of the "would never buy RS even if you paid me" people to have a go?

[SloopJonB]

Obviously the US market doesn't like any challenges to it's Microsoft franchise.

It's still £14.95 on Amazon.co.uk