3D Games Grafton Street closed down??

I'm pretty sure that was an American franchise and not an independant store. It's probably the only reason it was able to stay open so long.

Are you sure? I think I could be a Kinect game.

I'll miss it, 3D games that is. For all their overcharging, you'd get the odd very good bargain, as they'd have no
idea what they're selling, bit like The Rage.

They were selling GEN 3 Pokemon games for a 13ish, I recall. That's nice, most places have long since bumped them up to around 20ish/30ish, as an odd mix of the standard Nintendo premium and a sort 'yay, it's not fake' tax. The RAGE had loads recently, at a similar price, 'til Atavan off here pointed out that they were all fake, I seem to vaguely recall.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I picked up Kim Possible, What's the Switch? there for dirt cheap. Had given up trying to find it. It's a fantastic game that's better than it has any right to be so I guess I thank 3D game for that.

I actually saw a copy of that in CEX off Henry Street a few weeks back, going for mad money (€3).

Ended up not buying it because I was hungry and needed a sandwich.

atavan-halen wrote: »

Shop is still open. Walked past it today!

And yeah those carts were fakes IIRC.

If it was 10am and the shop was not open when OP said, I take it the staff member opening that day was running late is all :pac:

The whole thing of the staff taking the games out of new games is kinda new to me, never thought about it, Always thought they had wrapped copies behind the counter if you asked.

Makes me think of all the GCN games in 3D games that say 'New', I take it they are not new at all but the box art and disc just look new (ie no scratching or stickers) so they can sell them on as new.

The 3D games shop is not too bad, I drop in the odd time, never bought anything as way over priced! but no harm looking. For a flagship store, the best thing they can do is maybe reduce the price of games for a few months to get the name out.

Havent been into Da Rage in a while since the whole argument that the prices have jumped up a lot.

GameSexChange, now how come that place hasnt closed down? Was a copy of RE4 for ps2 in the window for €30 last week, today it is still in the window for €20 now, That should be between €5 and €10. Saw it new in 3D Games last week or so for €15!

How come GameSexChange can charge €15 or higher on ps2/gcn/xbox games when most of the rubbish he has in there goes for €3 in Gamestop? :pac:

luas_dublin wrote: »

....because 90% of their income comes from 2nd hand textbooks?

Well then, what if, say, he reduced the price of all those ps2/xbox/gcn games to between €5 and €10 to get the stock that has been sitting there for the past 3 year (I know this as I work around the corner and drop in once a week to have a look, very rarly buy a game though due to the high price) and make space for newer games for x360/ps3/psp/ds/wii, while still selling all the great retro stuff. Not so much pc games as they seem to be very hard to sell on.

Although he did have a good few gba games a few weeks back that i couldnt find in 3D Games and Da Rage, at a pretty good price.

Yeah he does make a few bucks from all the student books ect but he could also make so much more if he ran the games section a lot better. Dont want him to stop trading in games stuff by simply charging way way too much! 3D games has better pricing than GameSexChange tbh.

/Rant:rolleyes:

Ok I know I was moaning about Gamesexchange but just saw in the window, a copy of 'MGS: Twin Snakes' for the gamecube for €45, its on its side in the window display so wouldnt see it walking by, been there since yesterday, if anyones interested its still there as of now.