[super_furry]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...tock-new-games

They're being asked to pay up front for new stock now, something which is going to cause massive problems. At the very least their selection of new games is going to be massively curtailed with only those certain to sell being stocked.

I'm wondering if it's already happening as I was in GAME in Dundrum last week, looking for bother Saints Row the Third and Mortal Kombat - both very high profile games from the last few months - and they had neither. Outside of their "top 20 games", which was very light already they had very, very few new games.

[Mr E]

Damn... that's not good at all.

[ShadowHearth]

gamestop then, GAME now...


bad news so far...

i love brick and mortar shops, but i am being a bit of hypocrite myself now.


ps vita on amazon has an awesome deal which makes ps vita + 8gb memory card + any game for 280eu.

gamestop price - 255eu for machine alone +45eu for game + 30eu for memory card.

i think i will go with amazon deal...

[RobertFoster]

I walked around a GAME recently for the first time in ages and found it hard to spot the new games among the used games and other stuff like plushies.

[folan]

Game have been on a downward spiral for a while now. Look at the size of their shops in comparisson to 10 years ago. Theyre basically just pawn shops at this stage.

i go out of my way to not buy from game. their staff though have always been good at suggesting new games and giving me info, so for their sake alone i hope they can keep going.

And id prefer to give them my money before gamestop

[johnny_ultimate]

GAME haven't been on form for a very, very long time alas (although I've noticed a significant decline in HMV's quality too). While they can sometimes be relied on to get slightly more obscure, offbeat games their pricing, store layouts and selection are inconsistent to the extreme. Their prices for new releases are frequently five to fifteen euro higher than competitors, although their eventual discounts are often stronger than elsewhere.

I guess its eventual demise will be one further notch on the death knell of high street games retailing. It's a shame that the second-hand market has become the lifeblood of these stores - while their inability (or unwillingness) to keep up with online sales is one (HUGE) factor, I guess the gamers who allowed the model to develop are also responsible on some level.

[Paparazzo]

I normally buy in Game. Hope it doesn't go, always nice going into game on Dawson street to get a big game on release day.

[Zeouterlimits]

HMV, Gamestop in the UK, Game.
This is god awful for high street competition.

[Sarky]

I used to prefer buying games from shops, but a couple of well-placed Steam sales changed my mind pretty thoroughly.

It's kind of a shame that if the shops close there'll be lost jobs, but the only physical copies of games I've bought in years have been collector's editions. And then they all installed via Steam or similar anyway. Let them fall, see what pops up in their places.

[Seifer]

Natural selection at work, good riddance tbh.

[TerrorFirmer]

To be fair, I always found Games pre-owned prices really good.

[DarkJager]

Sad news to be honest. I'm not interested in buying games online or having to spend hours downloading a digital copy. There are some of us that don't have broadband capable of handling this sort of thing and no real wish to have it either. Gaming seems to be moving to this horrible online crossbreed of multiplayer games which forget about the solo player, forcing people to go to websites for a manual for the game they just paid 50 quid for, half the game missing because they want you to pay for it as DLC, online passes....the list goes on.

I am a single player fan above all else (no interest at all in multiplayer). I like being able to go in to somewhere like game/gamestop and browse the titles available, eventually buying a physical copy of the game I want. I have no intention of replacing this process with any other, regardless of how much the gaming industry wants me to.

I've been a gamer for nearly 30 years now, but if it continues and gets to a point where if I'm not able to enjoy the hobby as I want, buy my games in a physical store, get decent Sp titles to play, or finding out that 60% of the game has to be paid for as extra content then gaming can go **** itself.

[sweetie]

Originally Posted by Sarky

Let them fall, see what pops up in their places.

Originally Posted by Seifer

Natural selection at work, good riddance tbh.

what the weather like up there on your high horses?

tis a shame to see any business close and whilst not a great customer I like their sales and deals over the years.

[Raskolnikov]

Game will probably end up in bankruptcy, but I doubt this means the complete end of their bricks and mortar stores. Locations in the sticks will close, but profitable shops in major population centres will remain open.

[Mr Bloat]

Originally Posted by Sarky

I used to prefer buying games from shops, but a couple of well-placed Steam sales changed my mind pretty thoroughly.

It's kind of a shame that if the shops close there'll be lost jobs, but the only physical copies of games I've bought in years have been collector's editions. And then they all installed via Steam or similar anyway. Let them fall, see what pops up in their places.

Originally Posted by Seifer

Natural selection at work, good riddance tbh.

Look a little further than your own short-sighted outlook, to a future where all games have to be downloaded and there is nowhere, apart from Tesco to go and buy a game. I don't want that and after a while of that future, people like yourselves will be on this forum complaining that there is nowhere to browse games anymore.

Originally Posted by DarkJager

Sad news to be honest. I'm not interested in buying games online or having to spend hours downloading a digital copy. There are some of us that don't have broadband capable of handling this sort of thing and no real wish to have it either. Gaming seems to be moving to this horrible online crossbreed of multiplayer games which forget about the solo player, forcing people to go to websites for a manual for the game they just paid 50 quid for, half the game missing because they want you to pay for it as DLC, online passes....the list goes on.

I am a single player fan above all else (no interest at all in multiplayer). I like being able to go in to somewhere like game/gamestop and browse the titles available, eventually buying a physical copy of the game I want. I have no intention of replacing this process with any other, regardless of how much the gaming industry wants me to.

I've been a gamer for nearly 30 years now, but if it continues and gets to a point where if I'm not able to enjoy the hobby as I want, buy my games in a physical store, get decent Sp titles to play, or finding out that 60% of the game has to be paid for as extra content then gaming can go **** itself.

Well said. When I was a lad, there was a game shop in Cork that had a room at the back with C64s, Amstrads and Spectrum computers set up. You could pick a game off the shelf and set it up there (if you had an hour to wait for it to load from tape... ) and play it to see if you liked it. It's more of this we need, not everything moving to Amazon/Steam.