Is PS2 Grand Theft Auto III now a Greatest Hits game?

Factual Questions
1

I saw it in one store here for $37 (CDN). I then saw it in another store that is almost always cheaper than the first for $72 still, and another for $74. Greatest Hits games regularily go for $27-$29 here. Is the markdown due to it now being a “greatest hit” title or just a screw-up in their pricing? The packaging that it is in is not greatest hits packaging, just the regular packing since release.

For an example of why I am thinking this is Silent Hill was a $60 game. I picked it up once I say the price drop to $34. About a month later it was a “Greatest Hits” title, so that is just making me think that it could be the scenario again.

2

Are you sure the more expensive ones you saw weren’t GTA Vice City? (The new version that just came out a week or two ago). They have very similar packaging…

3

No, I’m sure. I already own Vice City. I’ve been waiting to pick up GTA3 as I refuse to spend $70 for a game (OK, don’t refuse, but don’t like spending $70)

Interstingly enough, Vice City was $4 cheaper than GTA3… and still is at the stores that have both in stock.

4

I would keep looking, now that Vice is out, GTA3 has to be cheaper.

5

Well, I’ve just spent the past few minutes looking at various online Canadian retailers and its still showing up as a $70 game. I think I might go pick it up for $37.

6

Another possibility, maybe one was the PC version as opposed to PS/2?
If not, then hell yeah go get the $37 one. That seems pretty cheap for a recent game all things considered

7

I’ve been wondering about this, too. Supposedly a game can be a Greatest Hit if it’s been out for eight months and has sold 40,000 units. GTA3 has been out since October of last year, and considering it’s been in the top 10 of games sold per month since then, it’s got to have sold a hell of a lot more than 40,000 copies. I take that to mean that Greatest Hits status isn’t automatically bestowed upon a title, that it has to be OK’d by someone… the publisher, perhaps?

8

Yeah, there has to be some more criteria than that. Considering that the game was still regularly selling out at full-pop prices more than a year after it was released, Sony would be crazy to lower the price. There must be more more to it than that.

The other hand, MGS Sons of Liberty is now a Greatest Hit. I think I’ll be picking it up as soon as I am done Vice City.

FWIW - I ended up buying the $37 GTA3 at lunch. The funny thing, even at the stores website (Future Shop), they still show being $79. Go figure.

9

Well, try gamestop.com they have so many of these GTA games that it’s just amazing. GTA, GTA II, GTA III etc

Try their used section too, they often have sales on this.

10

I think the greatest hits titles have to sell at least 200,000 units. 40,000 units sold is a very small number. I’ll go look for a cite.

11

Here we go.
http://station.pcvsconsole.com/view.php?news=1208

Furthermore:

Bolding mine.

I think my cursory Google search last time yielded a site page with a typo. :rolleyes:

12

I see that Metal Gear Solid 2 and Virtua Fighter4 are both now Greatest Hits, as well as Devil May Cry, Onimusha, and Jax and Daxter.

That’s a very tempting list of games for $75 (you can usually find coupons for $5 off any game 19.99 and over at BestBuy).

13

It probably won’t be for awhile even though it does meet the criteria. First of all, retailers have a TON of used copies of GTA3 that they will want to unload, and second, even this late in its shelf-life, GTA3 is still selling quite well at full price.