I bought Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (PS5) the other day (Wednesday 5th April 2023 to be precise). I bought the game from The Game Collection, and paid £16.95 (including postage).
Now, I don't know about you and your physical game purchasing habits, but I tend to buy the vast majority of my current-gen games (ie PS5, Switch) via online ecommerce vendors - such as Hit, The Game Collection, Amazon, Music Magpie, and Ebay. In fact, I very rarely walk into physical game retail shops anymore, and certainly haven't bought a physical game from a physical game retail shop in several months. This was when I bought several used PS3 games from a local independent games shop in October 2022.
Not a bad little "reward" for supporting a local independent games shop...
There are a number of reasons for why I don't tend to walk into physical game retail shops anymore. The biggest reason is that I don't really consider them to be the sort of venues that I would like to spend time in. For example, this article was written in a coffee shop that is situated directly opposite a CEX store. And if one were so inclined, I could visit a plethora of online stores via my laptop, and in the comfort of my seated position that also has a wi...