UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales
UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales
UK retailer GAME plans to remove all physical video game sales from stores in a controversial new move.
game over i guess
Not that they were a great company to begin with, but nice one Mike Ashley, killed off another brand basically
Mike Ashley didn't actually want a game shop, he wanted people spending £70 on each football/COD release, then buying that season's team strip on the way out of the shop.
Ashley wants two main things out of his purchases, the brand name to slap on a web store with any head start it can give into running a business in that sector, and the retail space. Any decent retail space he wants to flip into residential property while stripping any fixtures and fittings of any value, anything else will be gone or rebooted into the lowest common denominator for that area.
Then basically there's no point in this shop existing anymore. They're basically toy stores now.
I occasionally look in Game but can't remember the last time I actually bought anything. It would've been a pre-owned title anyway.
Is Electronics Boutique still going? 😁
EB is now GameStop - in the US. They are going. Not sure where, but they are going.
I miss Babbage's...
I was being a bit tongue in cheek. GAME took over EB in the UK. I don't think they're any dedicated gaming shops anymore, just independents.
The French branch filed bankruptcy 10 years ago.
Some of the stores became Micromania-Zing (owned by gamestop) which amazingly enough still exists.
Yeah, those have been primarily funko pop stores for years too. Their new games are like 20% more expensive than everyone else, and their second hand games priced like everyone else's new.
Yeah even in the US GameStop sucks now. Like at least 10 years ago they were decent, but now it's just trash.
The
FunkoPop StoreEB Games here in Canada were re-labeled to GameStop recently. They're still in every Mall in the land from what I've seen. Though they are doing better. Game selection isn't what it use to be, but the variety is growing now. I was surprised when I found Manga in our local GameStop.Not exactly my cup of tea, but catering to "Nerd" culture, and going beyond "Merch" is something I can get behind, since it's rare to see another store not selling the same old drivel as everyone else.
What are they going to sell then? More than half of their shops are poor quality merch, and own brand peripherals
Not hugely surprising given next gen consoles to all be without disc trays even
I still buy physical whenever I can. I'd hate to have my entire collection beholden to one account, although I know people do that with the PS Store, or Game Pass, or Steam. I don't trust corporations, I guess. I really hope they don't make disc-less consoles the standard.
Yeah. Games are all digital downloads these days. And consoles and accessories are cheaper and easier to get online. There's no point in physical video game stores any more.
Personally, I just want Radio Shack back, and not just the cell phone and crappy toy store.
In case anyone is following this: Eurogamer are reporting that Game have denied this.
I really hope game will still sell... games, but am cynically wondering if they are measuring the reaction from this to make a decision. :/
Im from the States and the moment RadioShack went all in on selling Cell Phones, they died.
The tech wizards shared ancient stories around the campfire of being able to buy radio parts at RadioShack. I was not of that era.
It wasn't even that long ago. I bought tons of discrete parts from RadioShack like, even up to 8 or 9 years ago. They had these drawers full of things, pots, LEDs, ICs, sensors, motors, dials.
Yeah, they had that one coming. Stuff in there is just straight up insanely overpriced
Huh, I get not selling media any more, but surprised they’re not even going to sell consoles.