Global UP! 14th July (This is a sales site! Worst week of the gen?)

[Kresnik]

radishhead said:

Argh_College said:

Conegamer said:
The EU is fine. It's Spain, Ireland and especially Greece who are in trouble. The main countries (UK, France, Germany) are fine, for the most part. UK's problem is that there's no dedicated game stores anymore really, and the Olympics. I'm not certain about France or Germany, but I'd imagine saturation is the big key. People like new stuff, and the fact that every game is a sequel isn't really helping...

Game ? GameStation ?

Game has been closed down- I heard that they were bought by someone, but both the chains in my "local" shopping-town are closed

Game & Gamestation are still around, they've been trying to keep at least one shop still open.  Most of the towns around where I live have at least one or the other.  There's Grainger Games as well which seem to be popping up around the country.

The problem with dedicated game stores like this is just that everything is too expensive.  Pre-owned games are more than they need to be, and new games stay expensive for far too long.  You can nearly always get a better deal on amazon/zavvi, and for pre-owned CEX is better.