Low Low Prices

I was at REDACTED today and stumbled across the video game section. Not knowing that they actually carried video games I decided to see if they had any good deals. Man was I in for a surprise! if you're looking for a copy of NHL '07 look no further than REDACTED, its not on sale but as you can see the everyday low price is impossible to pass up.

Ok so $29.99 for a three year old game is not a good deal at all but it gives us a chance to have some fun. By the way, if you look for a bigger reason why REDACTED is gonna go under I wish you good luck. Lets look at some fun facts.

• This game was released on September 26th 2006, which not only means that it just turned three years old, it also means that its been at that store for three years. I'm uncomfortable with anything thats been in a store for that long.
• While Alexander Ovechkin still plays for the Washington Capitals the team no longer wears that particular uniform. Its a great sweater, that I actually own, but its outdated, the Caps went to this design in 2007. The entire league's look was overhauled, in fact, as all teams moved to new Reebok Edge uniforms, most of which were different than in previous years so the Caps arent the only team with an outdated uniform, they're all outdated.
• As of this writing the game is available on Amazon for $2.46 used, and as low as $6.99 new. I actually purchased it last year for $7.98 at Target. There have been three new NHL games since the release of 07 (that would be 08, 09 and the recently released 10), only the latest version of the game is more than $29.99 on Amazon.
• The number one movie the week the game was released was "The Covenant" which I've never heard of and the week after that it was "Gridiron Gang" which, ironically, is on FX right now. The number one single at the time was Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack".
• George W. Bush was still President, the recession has not started, the median price for a home was still on the rise, Italy had just won the 2006 World Cup, Harry Potter had not been concluded yet, Easy Tiger had not been released yet, and Michael Jackson still had a few years to live.

The point of all this nonsense is this. Technology moves much more rapidly now than it did in the past, therefore most technologies become obsolete pretty quickly. Nothing has a steeper depreciation scale than a sports game, this can be easily seen in the quantity and prices of used games at brick and mortar game stores.

The fact that REDACTED still has this game at or near the original price speaks volumes of exactly how much this store is disconnected from reality. If they cant keep control of their inventories (because this game should have been gone long ago) or their prices (because if its still there it needs to be on clearance) then how can we expect them to compete, at least as far as electronics, with stores that do keep track of this stuff?