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Joelcool7 on 08 October 2010

I don't know. My EBGames doesn't promote products worth crap. I went with my buddy and their was a Halo encyclopedia sitting behind the desk. My friend was like can I get a Halo Encylopedia the lady was like "What" he points at it. She then picked it up suprised slides it through, the manager then comes out and is all excited he's like "Yes we finally sold one".

I wish our stores actually gave a crap and promoted some products, at least then dip sh*ts who don't know anything would be pressed into buying quality products!



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AdventWolf on 08 October 2010
kowenicki said:

so hang on... a gaming retailer is trying to get peope to buy a gaming device?

whatever next?.... greengrocers pushing apples?


Yeah that's wht I was thinking. They are just doing their job.



Ssenkahdavic on 08 October 2010

I can believe this about a gamestore.  Sometimes it goes almost to the point of harassment. 

Near me we have two Gamestops that are completely on opposite ends of the HD spectrum.  It is just plain silly.  I even call them the "PS3" store and the "360"store.  They went as far as taking down the others advertisements in the store (yes, the manager of the 360 store took down all the move posters the DAY OF RELEASE while we were in the store).  At the PS3 store I have noticed all the employees berrating the hell out of people for buying anything 360 related.  It is absolute madness.  We, as in all of the gaming public, should just stop shopping at these "specialty" stores. 



 

  

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AdventWolf on 08 October 2010
Ssenkahdavic said:

I can believe this about a gamestore.  Sometimes it goes almost to the point of harassment. 

Near me we have two Gamestops that are completely on opposite ends of the HD spectrum.  It is just plain silly.  I even call them the "PS3" store and the "360"store.  They went as far as taking down the others advertisements in the store (yes, the manager of the 360 store took down all the move posters the DAY OF RELEASE while we were in the store).  At the PS3 store I have noticed all the employees berrating the hell out of people for buying anything 360 related.  It is absolute madness.  We, as in all of the gaming public, should just stop shopping at these "specialty" stores. 


Hehe, I would buy all of my PS3 stuff at the 360 store and my 360 stuff at the PS3 store.



VGhippy on 08 October 2010

Yeah, my friend works at a GAME in Scotland and Kinect pre-orders are a huge sales target at the moment. I don't want to pretend anything is set in stone but it looks like Kinect will be huge in the UK based on pre-orders.



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Nightwish224 on 08 October 2010
DirtyP2002 said:

Yeah I think somebody who trolls everything Kinect related on other sites is a credible source!

how does a new interface and kinect make x360 better than ps3 seriously lolz, ps3 has move you know and it has hardcore games, kinect has no hardcore games at release, not to mention it does not work as advertised!!

 

^^yeah well you should only have 1 just for being stupid and invading lots of ps3 threads, like I said in the PM go play on your dustbox360, I only come on here in the morning and on the night, the rest of the day I'm a ps3 gamer.

 

the equivalent to mario is LBP and LBP is better because of user generated content and sharing

 

how many of those games will work well with connect, i am betting most will be shovelware and worse than the wii party games

 

OUT OF THE AMOUNT OF [Kinect] SALES 90% WILL BE RETURNED...

 

MS is desperate to slow down move sales in negligence of all the positive feedback move is getting, shame kinect when bought will get returned in high amounts...

 

Just a small sample of the nonsense you post every day on N4g.com! This is just from the past 5 days!
Feel free to check  for yourself.

http://n4g.com/user/score/jneul

 

 

Sorry, but somehow, I don't believe you.

 

^^^^^^^ Thank you, thank you. Side note: Seriously, it all depends on the employee / what managers want people to push for. I experience it at my job... even though it's not related to gaming ;)



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Slimebeast on 08 October 2010
whatever said:
nightsurge said:

You do realize that they mean 300 pre-orders in just that one small store, right?  For reference, in the US each GameStop in my area had a goal of 300-400 pre-orders per store of CoD MW2 and Halo Reach.  Kinect is a hardware device costing nearly 3x the amount of a game and they want the same amount of preorders per store!  That shows an insane demand for a hardware peripheral!

And yet preorders are only ~140k.  So something doesn't quite calculate.

Where does this 140K preorder number for Kinect come from?



Galaki on 08 October 2010

How dare a game retailer try to sell video games.



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yo_john117 on 08 October 2010

GAH!!!  Before you know it companies will be trying to push their products on you in your own home through tvs and radios!!  

I am not looking forward to that day!



ZenfoldorVGI on 08 October 2010
Vetteman94 said:

Oddly enough most people in this thread commenting about what jnuel has said on other sites/threads have made similar comments on this site about other consoles.   Plus all those things do not take away the validity of her current comment anyway.  Since this is a standard procedure for these types of stores.


lol, wut?

No. Just no.

Anybody with that much obvious bias and immaturity would be ripped to shreads on this site by me personally, before they were permabanned.



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