Veknoid_Outcast said:
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?)
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Oh man, that stinks. Can you order online?
That's sad news about dedicated game stores shutting down.
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Yeah I can 
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Sometimes I do that, but usually I'll just go to a store because when I buy it I want to play it right away. Maybe I'll go to that shopping mall tomorrow or something. Or I'll just order it.
Anyway as recent as a year ago, I had plenty of choice here of where to buy video-games. In my area there was a small electronics store selling games, two toy-stores and one of those home-entertainment stores that sells movies, music, games and what-not. However only one toy-store remains. Similarly in that adjacent town I talked about, there was a huge multi-story electronics store selling everything from microwaves to underwater-camera's and of course hundreds of games, a home-entertainment store from the same chain as well as a Gamestop-style video-game store. Nothing remains except, again, a toy-store.
It's not like there aren't enough potential customers in these areas either, they just all seems to only buy clothing and shoes instead... Which sucks for me, because now all of a sudden I have to jump through hoops to get a game or go all the way to the city center (where some things regarding electronics and entertainment have also closed their doors recently and equally been replaced by clothing stores, but more than enough still remains).
It's a first world problem, but still 
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