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Veknoid_Outcast on 29 October 2014
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S.Peelman said:

I finally got around to going out to buy Hyrule Warriors today.

So I went to my local toy-store. Yes, toy-store. It seems dedicated video-game stores en most electronic stores are a dying breed here in the Netherlands, PS4 being successful or not, because they're closing left and right. I live in a densely populated area, in what Americans would call the 'suburbs' of a big city, but I need to take a 15 minute metro ride which costs way too much to a large shopping mall to find a game store. A big electronics store here too just closed it's doors. Do people not need televisions and washing machines anymore? I could of course just go to the city center and have no problem to find anything at all, but it's just too far away...

Anyway I went to the toy-store near here. Miraculously they have as much wall-space for WiiU as they have for PS4 (and twice as much for 3DS) and by the looks of it they finally took out those XBox/PS2/GameCube adds and replaced them for XBox One/PS4/WiiU adds, but still I found that Hyrule Warriors was sadly sold out. So I went to the next toy-store in an adjacent town. Pretty big town actually, but here also, no more electronics or video-game stores. All closed leaving a depressed looking retail space for rent behind. A toy-store it is. It needs a ten minute bike-ride from where I was through the cold, misty and windy Dutch fall season to reach it. Sadly for me though, Hyrule Warriors there, was also sold out.

So there I am, wasted a pointless half-an-hour bike ride and got nothing to show for it .

(Except for Guitar Hero for DS which I snatched for 3 Euro. There was 3 Euro lingering in my pocket and that was the only video-game related object I could buy for that amount of money, so I thought why not?)

Oh man, that stinks. Can you order online?

That's sad news about dedicated game stores shutting down.