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Spiteful49 on 13 February 2009

From the time the first store opens how long will it take for a picture of an RROD in a display case to surface? I can only imagine the threads created about that...



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sega4life on 14 February 2009
Spiteful49 said:
From the time the first store opens how long will it take for a picture of an RROD in a display case to surface? I can only imagine the threads created about that...


back in the day, it would take long... now with the new updated systems,  it being MS's store, and having the best equipment on display, as well as the displays them selves being cooled well...

maybe never.. but thats just a hunch..



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mike_intellivision on 14 February 2009
MrBubbles said:
mike_intellivision said:
This seems to be a bit of hubris folly to me.

How many retailers will decide -- we won't carry or we won't display as well MS products because of this.

What does Gamestop think? I wonder.

Mike from Morgantown

 

something like this

"hahahahahhahaa these stupid bastards are making us rich by buying our overpirced used games that we pay almost nothing to get!! hahahahahahah"

as you can see, they dont give a shit about MS's store.

Well, I imagine that they can't be too concerned -- because demand for 20k sf retailers can't be too much.

That is more than 10x the size of your average Gamestop ... and larger than an Office Depot if you take away the furniture. It is also around the size of the seven Apple stores open around the world (five of the seven are between 19k and 24k sf, the outliers are 15k and 30k sf)

They could fit in a mall or shopping center by combining spaces (Steve & Barry's median size were 35k sf). But Gamestop often has clauses in its leases making them the biggest game store in the center -- which might make locations hard to come by -- except unless Microsoft is planning just a handful of trendy metro stores (think NYC, Chicago, SF, LA, etc.)

 

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Slimebeast on 14 February 2009
thx1139 said:
This is not an effort to make money off of the stores. This is a marketing effort. Do you think that the Sony, Apple, Nike store on Michigan Avenue (Perhaps the most expensive place in Chicago to have a store) are there to make money. No they exist for marketing purposes.

These stores will certainly be rather rare and the purpose will be to showcase MS products configured to show all capabilities.

 

Exactly. They would be rare and only with a marketing/PR purpose.

In Sweden there's 7 Sony Centers and about as many Apple stores. I estimate there would only open like one or two of these MS Centers in countries the size of Sweden (population 9 mill).