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Is there still a point in having dedicated games stores?

Yes! 59 72.84%
 
No! 14 17.28%
 
See results. 7 8.64%
 
Total:80
KylieDog said:

I have got some cracking deals off them this week thanks to shifting of stock, Xenoblade and red classic controller pro for only £20.  Labled as used but I can find no evidence of it aside from the used sticker.

Wow...that really IS a bargain, especially for a game with over 100 hours of playtime per playthrough...

@Radishhead- I noticed this. The staff always seem to recognise me. I don't know if that's because I go in every week to see if they have some trading cards/ Tales of the Abyss 3D in stock, but it's still nice for them to say hello. 

The worrying thing is, they seemed oblivious to the fact they were in danger of closing. 



 

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I looked around several GAME stores in London for some cheap JRPGs I have got. Got Fire Emblem: RD for only £6.99 in the GAME in Westfield at Stratford. However I'm now spending way more money than I saved buying a PAL copy of FE: Path of Radiance, it's got to be the priciest PAL GC game I've seen (more than I paid for rare games like Tales of Symphonia and Skies of Arcadia Legends).

Unfortunately, they couldn't take my points off my old battered 12/13 year old reward card. They'll send me a new one and I'll look for something to spend my £12.31 on again soon.




MrT-Tar said:
I looked around several GAME stores in London for some cheap JRPGs I have got. Got Fire Emblem: RD for only £6.99 in the GAME in Westfield at Stratford. However I'm now spending way more money than I saved buying a PAL copy of FE: Path of Radiance, it's got to be the priciest PAL GC game I've seen (more than I paid for rare games like Tales of Symphonia and Skies of Arcadia Legends).

Unfortunately, they couldn't take my points off my old battered 12/13 year old reward card. They'll send me a new one and I'll look for something to spend my £12.31 on again soon.

Yeah, Radiant Dawn is an incredibly good game. I saw it for £6.99 also, but aside from that, they didn't have much.



 

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spurgeonryan said:
kumagawa said:
Game are finished because they have 641 stores in the UK when at most half that would be enough. In stead we have a situation were they in some towns they 2, 3 or even 4 in one high street.


If that truly is the case then that is the reason. That is the reason with a lot of stores that close down in America as well. Enough is never enough. Then when they get too big the can not keep it up.

You've gotta remember this includes Gamestation, which is likely at least half of these shops, and is (pretty much) a seperate business. So, all of a sudden, it's not so bad. Especially if you look at somewhere like Pret a Mange, which has nearly 100 stores in London alone!



 

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spurgeonryan said:
kumagawa said:
Game are finished because they have 641 stores in the UK when at most half that would be enough. In stead we have a situation were they in some towns they 2, 3 or even 4 in one high street.


If that truly is the case then that is the reason. That is the reason with a lot of stores that close down in America as well. Enough is never enough. Then when they get too big the can not keep it up.

You've gotta remember this includes Gamestation, which is likely at least half of these shops, and is (pretty much) a seperate business. So, all of a sudden, it's not so bad. Especially if you look at somewhere like Pret a Mange, which has nearly 100 stores in London alone!



 

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kowenicki said:
Conegamer said:
spurgeonryan said:
kumagawa said:
Game are finished because they have 641 stores in the UK when at most half that would be enough. In stead we have a situation were they in some towns they 2, 3 or even 4 in one high street.


If that truly is the case then that is the reason. That is the reason with a lot of stores that close down in America as well. Enough is never enough. Then when they get too big the can not keep it up.

You've gotta remember this includes Gamestation, which is likely at least half of these shops, and is (pretty much) a seperate business. So, all of a sudden, it's not so bad. Especially if you look at somewhere like Pret a Mange, which has nearly 100 stores in London alone!


It is a seperate business from the same group and they are competing with each other... thats ludicrous.  In a town nearby to me there are 2 game stores and a gamestation.  The gametstation would regularly offer me a better trade in than the game store a few doors away...?  Why were they undercutting themselves?  Lunacy.

Comparing pret-a-manger selling sandwiches and coffee at a high margin for commuters and tourists to a gaming store selling much lower volume and higher cost items is a bit off mark.

I know the Pret A Manger is a poor example. But it was the only thing I could think of (and who really needs 4 of it within 100ft?)

As for the Game/Gamestation thing- They're owned be the same company. I.E they have the same CEO, same profits and with that, the same financial turmoil. But they're seperate companies (sorta like Greggs and Bakers Oven. I'm hungry), so they will compete with each other. However, the figure above in terms of the number of shops at present was for GAME Group, and so included Game and Gamestation.

That any clearer?



 

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Should I go spend my £43 credit asap? I was hoping to wait for Kid Icarus next Friday...



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Of course there's room for dedicated game stores on the high street, just not badly run store like game which are far to expensive to compete, add onto that the ludicrous number of stores they have right next to each other (2 Games and a Gamestation used to be 3 Game in my town alone) and you have a business doomed to fail.



One thing I find interesting about this whole GAME thing is the pricing aspect. People talk about how high their prices were, how other retailers consistently undercut them.

Because as far as I'm aware, pricing is 100% uniform in the U.S. If you buy a new game it's $60 for HD consoles, $50 for Wii/PC, etc. Nobody ever does anything else. Ever. I'm sure the publishers have a lot to do with that. But I wonder why it's different elsewhere, perhaps the publishers don't care as much what goes on in smaller markets?



Do execs get golden parachutes like the US counterpart when the company went doodoo?