Batman: Arkham Asylum (PlayStation 3) at Best Buy 38.83$

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Originally Posted by thecardman23

its nice all the consumers are getting great price on this game (with all the top end stores giving it away at $38 bucks) but leads me to wonder why the heck its happening for this specific title. does the game prod company WANT to loose money on this title? or are the retail stores just gonna take the loss themselves? strange... cuz its a very highly rated game online too so theres no real reason to be selling it for so cheap.

With price matching policies, all it takes is one store to start the ball rolling; in this case, Wal-mart. If the other stores didn't sell it for that price, then they'd end up selling it for even less as they'd have to honour their price match policy and give a further 10% off.

Best Buy definitely had not intended this price as their current flyer shows it on the front page for $69.99. They just had to respond to Wal-Mart's advertised price or end up selling it for $35.71!