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The buyback (used-game trade-in) price for Marvel’s Wolverine reportedly fell from ¥5,500 to ¥4,000 within just 10 days of release, and by the three-week mark, retail chains GEO and BookOff had slashed their prices to ¥2,000 and ¥2,500 respectively, according to a report on 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry” (Geha) board. “Bikane” — the nickname for a recent game that had previously held the record for fastest-crashing buyback price — took five weeks to hit ¥2,000, but Wolverine beat that mark in just three weeks, sparking talk of a new “fastest drop ever.” Thread replies raised complaints about the game’s lack of content and abundance of bugs, comparisons with other titles released around the same time, and mentions of how much unsold stock is still sitting in stores.
What people said
Launch day: ¥5,500
10 days later: ¥4,000
Bargain-bin alert!
Bargain-bin alert!
You sure you actually want me to wake you up for that?
Straight-up trash game
Bugs out the wazoo
Saw this coming from a mile away
Built up from lies〜♪ slashed by a knife〜♪ (lyrics from an old anime theme song)
Brings back memories
You must be a fan of the original
BookOff: ¥2,500
Lol, the big chains are playing chicken with each other
GEO dropped straight to ¥2,000 because BookOff was at ¥2,500, lol
How badly do they not want to buy this thing back, GEO lmao
The record's gone Wilds → Beast → Wolverine
What they all have in common is… oh wait, never mind
Hey, you watching this, Wilds?
There's talent here that surpasses you……
And not just one, but two at once……
No wonder shops don't want to buy it back
So if it's in there, people would know right away, lmao
Bikane took five weeks to hit ¥2,000
[Bad News] Bikane's Buyback Price Hits ¥2,000
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1788884422/
Wolverine did it in three
Well then, go ahead and break the all-time record, pleeease (meme spelling of 'please')
"Stop bringing in Wolverine already!!"
Store clerk: "I never want to see that yellow box art again……"
Release dates
July 14, 2005 (standard edition)
November 2, 2005 (PS2 "the Best" budget reissue)
That's about the point I realized Sony wasn't even looking at its own customers anymore…
Maybe it'd work out if they just sold it for ¥500
Bikane's incredible
Comparing it to Wolverine — which couldn't even crack the top 30 in week two with only 20,000 copies sold — is honestly disrespectful (to Bikane)
Re: #50
There's a bundle edition, you know. You some kind of hater?
GTA 6's physical copy is guaranteed to have a ¥0 buyback price though — you gonna be okay with that?
Though that's partly because people hadn't caught on to how bad it was yet, lol
There was also hope that an update would fix things
I think you already know what that means without me spelling it out
There's also the contract with M (likely Marvel) to consider
Stores that clearly state this in their pre-order section are seeing zero pre-order growth,
but the ones that don't mention it are seeing great numbers, lol
Can't wait to see how this blows up
What happens when clueless average PS5 owners buy GTA 6 expecting a disc
Are people gonna try shoving the paper card into the disc slot, lol?
Someone actually pulled that before with a Tales of… demo insert or something, lol
Background and Talking Points
How fast a used-game buyback price falls is an indicator of how worried retailers are about getting stuck with unsold stock — it doesn’t directly reflect how many copies a game has actually sold. On the Geha (Hardware/Industry) board, comparing how quickly a new release’s buyback price crashes — as seen before with titles like Monster Hunter Wilds and “Bikane” — has become a recurring topic, and this Wolverine discussion is just the latest example. Commenters pointed to the game’s CERO Z rating (restricted to ages 18 and up in Japan) as one reason it’s hard to bundle into things like New Year’s grab-bag sets, which in turn makes retailers reluctant to buy it back. That said, it’s worth noting that the sales and inventory figures cited in the thread are secondhand claims from posters, not confirmed official data from sources like Famitsu.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Bad News] Wolverine’s Buyback Price Is Getting Ugly [Fastest Drop Ever].”
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