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UK Retailer GAME is dead | Brera's Lament
- Thread starter CrunchinJelly
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some hw. Doing DS for £35. So jelly. :'(
Psychotext
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For real?
checkeredknight
Member
Bathroom PS3 would cost you £99.99 for a 40GB / 60GB / 80GB. Better get that ADC cover out too since it'll most likely end up in a nasty bathroom incident involving water everywhere. Only £24.99 for two years.
If you want a CHEAP CHEAP DS the originals are only £19.99 if you can find a store that has any in stock. DS Lite's are only £34.99 as well.
BlazingDarkness said:
Most people have been positive about Mass Effect 3 in our store. We've explained we're not stocking it (at the moment) and have told them alternative retailers that will stock it. Also making sure to say GAME have the same problem to save them a wasted trip. Quite a lot of people have been asking though, spoke to about ten myself today.
JoeTheBlow said:
I'm worried about losing my job but posts like this make it seem (semi?) worth it.
Totally agree with you.
The same pricing structure might start seeping into American gaming at some stage and at that stage, publishers will have to do something and structured pricing is the future. EA, Capcom, Sega etc would make so much more with structured selling points. Their games might sell for longer and be viewed in better terms rather than lose sales and being labelled as a "bomba".
checkeredknight
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The DS is a wonderful machine. I think in terms of levels of awesomeness, it neared PS2 levels. The library for that system was so comprehensively huge, and of exceptional quality too. About the only thing it really lacked was a plethora of manshooters, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
checkeredknight
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DS Lite's are great and there are a tonne of very cheap DS games in the sale at the moment. I'd recommend Dragon Quest VI or IX if you're into RPG's, they're priced at £7.98 and £9.98 IIRC. You can also find titles such as Professor Layton, Rhythm Paradise, Advance Wars and Mario Kart all at cheap prices.
A second-hand 3DS is £115 at the moment, which is pretty decent. A lot of the ones we've had traded in at our shop have been spotless and hardly played (a few traded in to get the Vita.) You're pretty much getting an untouched 3DS for just over £100.
Brera said:
The GBA had a fantastic library of games, but I do agree with Omikaru. There is a lot of shovel-ware for the DS, much more than the GBA, but if you avoid it there are a tonne of great games for the system.
The GBA is closer to the PSone.
But that's okay, because both were great machines. I just think the DS was the better of the two.
Lazlo Woodbine
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I went into the Sutton branch of Gamestation expecting to come back with a small hoard today (their usually a lot better then my local game when it comes to stock) but the staff there told me that early Thursday one guy had literally bought half the store (spent over £400 just on software), before they'd even finished ticketing. So I end up with just a few throwaway two quid platinums lol.
Then I go into the GAME and their tills have stopped reading cards properly and they're getting abuse of a pissed off customer. Again nothing of any real note, got New Vegas Complete for £19 but that's about it.
The prices on most of the stuff I saw was basically bringing stuff in parity with those you see online...except second hand.
Then I go into the GAME and their tills have stopped reading cards properly and they're getting abuse of a pissed off customer. Again nothing of any real note, got New Vegas Complete for £19 but that's about it.
The prices on most of the stuff I saw was basically bringing stuff in parity with those you see online...except second hand.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
You're about six months too early for that.
Nah he's found a wormhole which taks him into the future of about a year, and at that time frame GAME has we know it still exists.
DefectiveReject
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I just picked up 11 games for £55
One of which was Arkham City at £20.
Other M for £4
Metroid Prime 3 for £2
battalions wars Wii for £2
Fable III for £7
Crysis 2 for £7
Halo 3, crackdown , medal of honor tier and some kids games
One of which was Arkham City at £20.
Other M for £4
Metroid Prime 3 for £2
battalions wars Wii for £2
Fable III for £7
Crysis 2 for £7
Halo 3, crackdown , medal of honor tier and some kids games
What. I dont think GAME are in the situation when they can refuse £400 because someones buying a bit too much.
kobashi100
Banned
Anyone notice if PES 2012 3DS is on sale?
Starwolf_UK
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HUD rumor:
I can see it only affecting a few key games though...I'm sure GAME could have gotten rid of Forza 3 and gears 2 for £2.98 but probably didn't want them used against the company in the £5 credit bonus at Gamestation.
Psychotext
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I love the cover for Lego Batman.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Aha, so this is why the local GAME has a sign that says:
"Play with ours [PSVita] for £10!"
"Play with ours [PSVita] for £10!"
I've had that issue since forever. Think it's to do with older reward cards.
Was just walking around town, decided to pop into game to look at their Vita prices.
Golden Abyss for £42.99 pre owned
I then walked out
Are you sure that wasn't the joke shop?
woo and indeed hoo
Banned
Good thing I was paying attention in Gamestation earlier. The dude tried to put the Dragon Quest Monsters Joker card in my Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 box.
That's almost as bad as the time when I almost received Super Paper Mario in my Super Mario Galaxy box.
Gutted games suck.
That's almost as bad as the time when I almost received Super Paper Mario in my Super Mario Galaxy box.
Gutted games suck.
bitoriginal
Member
Don't worry about it, it was only two days ago they had to re-sticker their entire stock. Now they've got to do it again?
Went to three stores yesterday (Victoria, Oxford Street and Regent Street) and found nothing that interests me. Then again I own a DS and Wii so most of the preowned stuff is drivel. Anything that would be of interest I already owned (Sin and Punishment 2, Day of Crisis etc).
Might just pick up a Wario figurine to finish off my points. At least I got a couple of streetpasses along the way.
Might just pick up a Wario figurine to finish off my points. At least I got a couple of streetpasses along the way.
Psychotext
Member
At this point their entire stock likely amounts to about 30 games.
jono51
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So, my sister hit gamestation and picked up Gears 1, Bayonetta & Fallout 3 for a tenner. I went into the city centre a little later and got Gears 2, RDR, Rhythm Paradise and Advance wars for ~£17. Pretty decent overall, and all the stuff was complete and in good condition for preowned stuff. Gears 2 even came with an unused code for a map pack which is cool I guess. Both game and gamestation were pretty busy. The few times I had gone in over the years I've never seen so many in there. I couldn't help but laugh at the ME3 strategy guides they were trying to flog at the tills though.
Little Old Man
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God damn it. Blew my reward points on Advance Wars DC on the DS, but forgot my old university address was in the account still, so sent it there by accident. No issue I thought, I'll just cancel the order. Except I can't, as the website shows it's shipped after 1 minute...
Since I don't live there anymore, it'll get forwarded to my department. Wonder if I'll ever finally get it.
Edit: no my mistake! The orders on my account page aren't in date order for some reason, so I clicked on an order from two years ago when I ordered the same game, but returned it, as it was preowned and I paid for new at the time.
Since I don't live there anymore, it'll get forwarded to my department. Wonder if I'll ever finally get it.
Edit: no my mistake! The orders on my account page aren't in date order for some reason, so I clicked on an order from two years ago when I ordered the same game, but returned it, as it was preowned and I paid for new at the time.
BibiMaghoo
Member
This is terrible news.
If Gamestation close, the only store in my City that sells games will be HMV..
A decade ago we had 7 stores selling games in the City. 4 of them selling just games.
If I had the money, I would buy the chain and close GAME, but leave Gamestation open and sell off the stores no longer used.
They were always in competing places. They always had both in Cities and towns across the street from each other. It was pretty stupid.
If Gamestation close, the only store in my City that sells games will be HMV..
A decade ago we had 7 stores selling games in the City. 4 of them selling just games.
If I had the money, I would buy the chain and close GAME, but leave Gamestation open and sell off the stores no longer used.
They were always in competing places. They always had both in Cities and towns across the street from each other. It was pretty stupid.
Psychotext
Member
You don't have an Asda, Sainsbury's or Tesco that sells games?
SSX is 45 quid in my local supermarkets - that's the future guys!
Psychotext
Member
£40 in mine (well, Asda anyway)... the exact same price as Game.
Besides that, why would you buy something like that from Game anyway? It's cheaper online and more often than not you can get it before you could have got it from Game.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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Oh fuck sake. I have a look in here after discovering my £40 GAME credit and thinking I should use it sometime, only to see post after post about everyone grabbing bargains... Which means not only am I going to have to ruin my lazy Sunday by going into town, but there's probably going to be hardly any stock left of anything decent.
Watch the supermarkets sell all new games at £50+ once all the competition is gone. This is going to get really shitty really fast imo.
Watch the supermarkets sell all new games at £50+ once all the competition is gone. This is going to get really shitty really fast imo.
I know this sounds stupid - but people have genuinely come up to me in GAME asking about certain games, that we don't have, and said "well where else can I get it?" GAME is, for a lot of people, the one stop shop to buy games. In the 5 hours I was in today we took 3 grand - considering the town I live in AND that we have barely any new stock that's pretty good going.
Diablohead
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glaringradio
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Why do people continue to think that supermarkets sell games cheaply because GAME exists? Nothing will change here, absolutely nothing.
So GAME won't exist, people will go buy online or buy from supermarkets/HMV/CEX. People who exclusively shopped at GAME (of which there are probably 0 people) will go elsewhere and reap the benefits of not being buggered over.
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