Amazon adding 20% discount to video games for Prime members.

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**Breotan**

Amazon Prime membership will now have the added benefit of adding 20% off the price of new or pre-order games. At first this seems like video games but the article suggests it's also includes some physical toys as well (related to video games).

Looks like this is restricted to the USA. Sorry, RotW. Write your congressman.

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/01/13/amazon-prime-game-discount/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Amazon Prime members now get 20% off of new games

As if the two day shipping, instant video, Kindle Lending Library, and music services included in Amazon Prime weren’t enough, gamers now have a new reason to get Amazon Prime on tap if they haven’t already done so.

Amazon is adding a 20 percent discount to pre-ordered and newly-released games shipped via the Prime service. If you pre-order a game for day-one delivery or order it within the first two weeks of release, the discount will be automatically applied to any game sold and shipped by Amazon. Amazon notes this is added automatically to any existing pre-orders. If you’re buying a standard $60 game, this comes out to $12 off the price of the game. If you’re buying eight or more retail games a year, the $99 fee for Prime literally pays for itself.

The deal seems to even extend to things like Nintendo amiibo and [urlhttp://www.amazon.com/lego-dimensions/b/ref=as_li_ss_tl?node=11090984011&ref=spkl_5_0_2381206762&qid=1452705245&pf_rd_p=2381206762&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_s=desktop-auto-sparkle&pf_rd_r=AZ8CP417TJ90VFE11Y3V&pf_rd_i=LEGO+Dimensions&linkCode=sl2&tag=tbtextlink-20&linkId=8d20124bb872ac30d60231c0752ae22c]LEGO Dimensions[/url] toys.

All of this is an attempt to combat growing services like Xbox Live, PlayStation Plus, and EA/Origin Access that put money directly into publisher and platform manufacturer’s pockets without a retail store sitting in the middle. The shift from physical to digital isn’t going to stop, especially not with the constant stream of sales offered across all platforms, but a deal this good will certainly slow things down.

**Ensis Ferrae**

One article that I read on this specifies though, that it must be a physical copy of the game.

This isn't a problem for console gamers, but do PC games even make physical copies anymore?

Also, you'll notice it applies only to pre-orders (which is cool), or if you forget to pre-order it applies for the first 2 weeks after release.

**Tyr13**

Of course you still get physical copies of PC games. Pretty much every limited edition/collectors edition, for isntance. Hell, Ive even seen Indie games with boxed copies in stores.

**Overlord Thraka**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
One article that I read on this specifies though, that it must be a physical copy of the game.

This isn't a problem for console gamers, but do PC games even make physical copies anymore?

Also, you'll notice it applies only to pre-orders (which is cool), or if you forget to pre-order it applies for the first 2 weeks after release.

My copy of Fallout 4 is physical for PC

**TheWaspinator**

Physical copies of PC games still exist, but tend to be a Steam key in a box.