{"id":2959,"date":"2016-01-13T07:47:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2016-01-13T07:47:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:47:17","slug":"amazon-prime-members-now-get-20-off-of-new-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime members now get 20% off of new games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the two\u00a0day shipping, instant video, Kindle Lending Library, and music services included in Amazon Prime weren\u2019t enough, gamers now have a new reason to get Amazon Prime on tap if they haven\u2019t already done so.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is adding a 20 percent discount to\u00a0pre-ordered and newly-released\u00a0games 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\u00a0to any game sold and shipped by Amazon. Amazon notes this is added automatically to any existing pre-orders. If you\u2019re buying a standard $60 game, this comes out to $12 off the price of the game. If you\u2019re buying eight\u00a0or more retail games a year, the $99 fee for Prime literally pays for itself.<\/p>\n<p>The deal seems to even extend to things like Nintendo amiibo and\u00a0<em>LEGO Dimensions<\/em>toys.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s pockets without a retail store sitting in the middle. The shift from physical to digital isn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the two\u00a0day shipping, instant video, Kindle Lending Library, and music services included in Amazon Prime weren\u2019t enough, gamers now have a new reason to get Amazon Prime on tap if they haven\u2019t already done so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}