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Home News Rayman Origins Already On Clearance?!

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Rayman Origins Already On Clearance?!

Posted on Wednesday, April 4 @ 15:18:05 Eastern by

Target has already put Rayman: Origins on clearance, as shown by Dack from Hardcoregamer, even though the game has only been out for five months. Why the bargain bin treatment? It's always disheartening to see such a well-received title undersell and then be quickly undervalued.

Of course, this could just be a special sale, but the price tag has been steadily dropping since its release. Target obviously purchased too many copies of the title as has tried everything to get it off store shelves, dropping it to $39.99 and then $29.99 before the $15 clearance we see here. (Of course, maybe more people will get it now...)

Ubisoft has likely been disappointed in the sales for Rayman: Origins, despite it being one of Game Revolution's favorite platformers and having a release on all three major consoles as well as the PlayStation Vita.

It would probably have been better for Ubisoft to push the release for Rayman: Origins to February or March of this year (heck, even now since there's so little going on) so that it wasn't drowned out by the holiday rush. Or if they didn't charge $60 for a cel-shaded 2D platformer, which doesn't look like a $60 title to a regular person. Or if they marketed it better. Or if it was strictly a downloadable title to cut down on distribution and manufacturing costs.

Ironically, Rayman: Origins would have sold better for $15 on XBLA and PS3.

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Related Games:   Rayman Origins, Rayman Origins (Vita)
Tags:   Ubisoft, Rayman Origins, Rayman


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  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
    $15? *goes to store to buy it*
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
    Hey, anybody who drops the price of their games is doing something right.
    0 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
    Awww it was $20 at my target. I'll wait another couple months I guess.....
    0 1
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
    This game was worth $60. It is a full experience.
    0 0
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 6:21 pm
    Just saw your timestamps. You are a mean jerk who is mean.
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
    lol, agreed. How dare you Drathbone.
    0 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 1:19 am
    What did I do? I was walking out the door and decided to call them instead of waste gas. Found it was $20, I'll still wait a couple months cuz I gotta use that $20 for Xenoblade Chronicles on Friday. Can't go on a game spree right now haha.

    Also, if there was an edit button (on of the most requested things here at GR) we could avoid whatever it was that I did with timestamps.
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  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
    Publishers should stop automatically slapping that $60 price tag on everything and actually think about how best to price/distribute their games. Rayman Origins would have probably been the next Braid or Bastion if it had been a $15 download. On the other side of that, they probably could give games like Skyrim a $75 price tag and sell the same number of units (please don't read that publishers).
    1 0
  • truncheon5000
    truncheon5000
    Joined: Jul 2009
    Posted: Apr 4th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
    such a great game, its art
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  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 1:54 am
    I actually thought this was going to be a download title on PSN and XBLA for a long time when the first previews popped up. Then I read in Game Informer that because of all the money they paid the artists (and tons of new hires) they thought it was worth the $60 for the art alone. Then I thought, "Yep, poor sales here we come".
    0 0
  • hewhowasonceme
    hewhowasonceme
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Apr 5th, 2012 at 7:34 am
    The game was well worth 60 bucks, more so than other games. Remember when games cost 80 bucks(N64)? I think if they would have waited until spring like Nick said the game would have flown off shelves.
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