Weekly Haul: March 28th - April 3rd

[Anthony]

The Weekly Haul is your chance to discuss and brag about your purchases during the last week. What did you buy? Where did you get it and most importantly how much did you pay? Share the information with others so that they might benefit or to boast about your ever expanding library of video games.

Another week with an exceptionally strong dollar, how has it affected your purchasing? Or have we all been too preoccupied with the Nintendo 3DS?

[Robert]

Crysis 2, Traded Assassins Creed: Brotherhood and 18 Dollars for it at Game Broadway. Crackdown 2 $22.50 in HV Moore Park, MvsC3 $50 from The Hut, also got Lost Planet 2 and Kane & Lynch 2 for $12.50 each fromt he hut. So far Kane and Lynch is my fav. Crysis 2 catching up and I am liking Crackdown 2 so far, even though the first is nearly the same but I loved that game.

[mumbo_jumbo_au]

caved in and got a 3ds today... $273 at kmart with discount. Prob get street fighter or ghost recon 2mrw.
Ios games: FF1 and FF2 $5 each, Sacred oddysey $1.19.

[Vasir]

Bandhero PS3 Brand new still sealed $10 @ Game's Supanova Store
Homefront $82 360 came with free copy of GT5 as a sorry for shipping delay (from game.com.au).

[Charlie Miso]

The chop shop was kind to me when I ducked in this week.

God of War III for $20
Mario Kart Wii for $20 - which went to GAME for their WTF deal with $28 for Donkey Kong Country Returns.

Am currently eyeing up Evil Genius on Good Old Games for $6.

[EvilTom]

What is the chop shop? Where did you get mario kart for twenty?

[Charlie Miso]

It's basically a Cash Converters without the branding.

I did buy Evil Genius for those desperate to know....

[cheapo]

Recently sold a few titles from my collection. Mainly mediocre titles I was never going to get around to playing. So what do I do with the extra cash? Spend it on more games! All 360 titles.

- Halo Reach at Playasia for $19.20.
- Battefield 2: Bad Company at Zaavi. Think it was just under $27.
- Crysis 2: Limited Edition (with gold dog tags code) at JB Hi Fi using some games I already had and purchased trade bait. Around $50 in total.

Also put down a deposit for Gears Of War 3 it at EB. Hoping to allocate plenty of spare time during the 4 week beta to fulfill the void of waiting till September.

[Strand0410]

3DS: $298 with Ghost Recon (DSE)
Pilotwings and Steel Diver $42 each (The Hut)

[ianinozzie]

Picked up my pre-orders for an Aqua Blue and Cosmo Black 3DS consoles from EB Games and Game respectively.

Got my Aqua Blue console pricematched with K-Mart's $288; was very lucky as K-mart only had 3 copies left at 9am on 3DS launch date of 31 March! Game could not pricematch at all and had to pay the full $349.95 for it (though it had all been paid off previously from trade-ins anyway).

Also purchased Sims 3 for an extra $38 at EB Games. The following 3DS accessories also purchased at EB Games:

- polycarbonate case 50% with voucher - $9.95
- 3DS executive case 15% with voucher - $21.20
- 3DS screen protectors - had a coupon that had it for free when I purchased a 3DS, but since I pricematched, wasn't able to get these free and paid $9.95 for it.

Also purchased a "Gameware executive case pack" from Game which included a pretty poor leather "slip-in case", earphones, 3x extra styluses and Gameware screen protectors from Game. Original cost $34.95, but they let me have it for $10 as a valued customer (perhaps to make up for the fact that I paid full price for the 3DS pre-order).

I wish I had purchased more $38 3DS games at EB Games.

Just purchased NBA Jam on PS3 from Zavvi this morning, approximate AUD$16. May also purchase Super Street Fighter 4 3DS sometime this week, and considering whether I should get WWE All-Stars this week as well, or to wait.

[sillygostly]

Nintendo 3DS Cosmo Aqua Blue + Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars from Dick Smith for $283.10 (online exclusive pre-order)

I also caved in on some extra games...
The Sims 3 $48.84 (Big W)
Nintendogs: Toy Poodle + Friends $55
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition $55