I took my youngest to go get a new nintendo mario game because he got a really good report card.
Went to gamestop.
USED mario games were over $40. No original box. No booklets. Just the cartridge. Over $40 for a used nintendo game. A popular, mass produced game. Not a rare game. On the old nintendo switch 1. Not even a new console.
I looked around. Everything inside Gamestop was severely overpriced. Like i can click buy now used games on ebay for cheaper with free 2 day shipping.
Behind the counter was a fat soyboy and some geek nerd staring into a phone. Neither looked the slightly bit interested in helping me or even trying to make a sale.
Gamestop is more worried about tweeting than actually making sales or returning earnings per share to share holders. Fuck 'em
How is gamestop still in business? I'm about to short these fuckers too. I don't care about the memes. This is a business setup to fail.
I took the kid out to get a milkshake, ordered him a game online and took him to the sports place to pick out some athletic gear instead. Gamestop lost another sale.
He isn't the only one it happens to. It's actually pretty common around here when people refuse to be shamed into supporting the official narrative like what happens on reddit.
Prices for pretty much any used game are dictated by the market. There's no "should," it's what buyers are willing to spend. If there's a glut of whatever Mario title Vlad is whining about and nobody is buying it, the price will come down.
Except "the market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent," which is particularly relevant in the present status quo where businesses can seemingly afford to light cash on fire for several years as long as mysterious money is flowing into them.
Arguably Gamestop's business practices would have ended it years ago if it weren't for the meme squeeze.
I looked around. Everything inside Gamestop was severely overpriced. Like i can click buy now used games on ebay for cheaper with free 2 day shipping.
This was me, but in 1999. Nothing has changed.
Used to have a local game store that you could buy or trade in stuff for WAY better deals than gamestop, and somehow they were completely edged out of the business by this overpriced, sterile, green blockbuster wannabe.
Even then you could get stuff on Ebay for cheaper. How this company even exists is beyond me.
The entire big stock blowup a few years ago only started because they were in the process of being shorted until they went out of business, and it was just autism and nostalgia that saved them that day. They've been fucked for years.
I'd wager selling TCG cards and merch for nerd stuff makes up most of their profits, while the games themselves are just tradition. Like, everytime I've been in one the last few years its been dudes buying Pokemon cards and we all know how that market is exploding.
And yeah, Major 1st Party Nintendo games are never discounted ever in any storefront, because Nintendo will never discount them themselves. You'll pay over 40$ if not 50$ to full on them until the production run ends, and then again on the re-release next console. That's not really Gamestop's fault there, as you can see the Non-Nintendo ones are still overpriced but not to the same extent.
But yeah, brick and mortar game stores do themselves zero favors compared to online shopping and its comical that they don't realize it. Any game worth buying is wildly overpriced compared to its age, and anything in a reasonable price range is throwaway nonsense like WWE '19 that no one will ever buy again.
I'm at least lucky that my local one has been run by the same lady and her few dude employees for going on 25 years now (I got my Halo 3 Legendary from them and we all still remember it), so I can go in and talk to them to get a lot of information or special deals that normies wouldn't.
The digitization of the game industry also screwed them over. Sadly even the point of physical console games is fading because they all try to make you install a 100 GB day one patch as soon as you put it in the drive.
With PC games, I don't even know if the physical media contains game files anymore or if it's just a portal to EA Play or some other abomination.
PC gaming was the first to go really. I remember Gamestop even during its peak in like 2008 having a comically small PC gaming section, and it was usually all Blizzard gamechests anyway. I doubt they've had discs with the game on them for over a decade.
And yeah, its usually pointless to go physical because its 99% of the time the same price but requires twice the effort and all the possible positives aren't provided because its incomplete on the cart/disc anyway.
Mario Tennis and Mario Golf on the Switch, with patches that were supposed to “flesh out” the game, which both launched with laughably shit single player experiences left such a bad taste in my mouth that I gave up all interest in physical and modern game “collecting”.
That’s the kind of thing that isn’t noticed till 5 years down the line when Nintendo looks around and wonders where the customers went.
You get a plastic scratch-off card with an activation code on Steam or the Epic Game Store™. It used to be a DVD case with a paper card inside, but even that's too expensive nowadays.
But yeah, brick and mortar game stores do themselves zero favors compared to online shopping and its comical that they don't realize it.
Online shopping (i.e. Amazon) is its own flavor of shitty, with rampant chinkshit counterfeits and shipping now taking longer than two days due to ongoing enshittification. That's not even mentioning the porch pirate problem.
But with regards to video games specifically, Amazon doesn't get launch-day deliveries with Nintendo (don't know about other publishers) anymore because they leak games like a sieve. The underpaid slave labor working the warehouses keep sending the games out 1-2 weeks early, if not outright stealing the games and leaking them on pirate sites themselves. You're still better off going brick-and-mortar if you care about playing on Day 1.
Yeah for Day 1 stuff is the one huge benefit they still have. If you want a physical copy of a game immediately you should always go to the store. Unless you are banking on them sending it early which I have had happen shockingly often when I did buy it (for games I didn't care if it was a bit late).
I took my youngest to go get a new nintendo mario game because he got a really good report card.
Went to gamestop.
USED mario games were over $40. No original box. No booklets. Just the cartridge. Over $40 for a used nintendo game. A popular, mass produced game. Not a rare game. On the old nintendo switch 1. Not even a new console.
I looked around. Everything inside Gamestop was severely overpriced. Like i can click buy now used games on ebay for cheaper with free 2 day shipping.
Behind the counter was a fat soyboy and some geek nerd staring into a phone. Neither looked the slightly bit interested in helping me or even trying to make a sale.
Gamestop is more worried about tweeting than actually making sales or returning earnings per share to share holders. Fuck 'em
How is gamestop still in business? I'm about to short these fuckers too. I don't care about the memes. This is a business setup to fail.
I took the kid out to get a milkshake, ordered him a game online and took him to the sports place to pick out some athletic gear instead. Gamestop lost another sale.
Lol why is this downvoted? I mean Gamestop has to make a profit but used Switch 1 games should maybe be $30?
I think there are some people that stalk downvote that guy.
Weird. Out of all the people to stalk downvote on this forum I'm really confused why he would be the one.
He isn't the only one it happens to. It's actually pretty common around here when people refuse to be shamed into supporting the official narrative like what happens on reddit.
Must be some salty Ottomans on the board.
"some people" lol, we all know who it is.
fuckin JIDF k!kes
the most fragile demon worshiping degenerates in the world.
He’s a complete asshole, but very good poster for the most part. I upvotes to balance it out.
Nintendo doesn’t reduce prices on physical copies. Therefore used copies are more expensive. This isn’t new, it’s been their MO for over a decade now.
Yeah, and Gamestop pays like $10 per trade-in. Gay
Most places will pay 30-40% of resale value, GameStop is a lot more stingy than they used to be but you can still get 30% if you do store credit.
Prices for pretty much any used game are dictated by the market. There's no "should," it's what buyers are willing to spend. If there's a glut of whatever Mario title Vlad is whining about and nobody is buying it, the price will come down.
Except "the market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent," which is particularly relevant in the present status quo where businesses can seemingly afford to light cash on fire for several years as long as mysterious money is flowing into them.
Arguably Gamestop's business practices would have ended it years ago if it weren't for the meme squeeze.
haha the market dictates that i can buy used games for the kids cheaper anywhere but gamestop.
This was me, but in 1999. Nothing has changed.
Used to have a local game store that you could buy or trade in stuff for WAY better deals than gamestop, and somehow they were completely edged out of the business by this overpriced, sterile, green blockbuster wannabe.
Even then you could get stuff on Ebay for cheaper. How this company even exists is beyond me.
The entire big stock blowup a few years ago only started because they were in the process of being shorted until they went out of business, and it was just autism and nostalgia that saved them that day. They've been fucked for years.
I'd wager selling TCG cards and merch for nerd stuff makes up most of their profits, while the games themselves are just tradition. Like, everytime I've been in one the last few years its been dudes buying Pokemon cards and we all know how that market is exploding.
And yeah, Major 1st Party Nintendo games are never discounted ever in any storefront, because Nintendo will never discount them themselves. You'll pay over 40$ if not 50$ to full on them until the production run ends, and then again on the re-release next console. That's not really Gamestop's fault there, as you can see the Non-Nintendo ones are still overpriced but not to the same extent.
But yeah, brick and mortar game stores do themselves zero favors compared to online shopping and its comical that they don't realize it. Any game worth buying is wildly overpriced compared to its age, and anything in a reasonable price range is throwaway nonsense like WWE '19 that no one will ever buy again.
I'm at least lucky that my local one has been run by the same lady and her few dude employees for going on 25 years now (I got my Halo 3 Legendary from them and we all still remember it), so I can go in and talk to them to get a lot of information or special deals that normies wouldn't.
The digitization of the game industry also screwed them over. Sadly even the point of physical console games is fading because they all try to make you install a 100 GB day one patch as soon as you put it in the drive.
With PC games, I don't even know if the physical media contains game files anymore or if it's just a portal to EA Play or some other abomination.
PC gaming was the first to go really. I remember Gamestop even during its peak in like 2008 having a comically small PC gaming section, and it was usually all Blizzard gamechests anyway. I doubt they've had discs with the game on them for over a decade.
And yeah, its usually pointless to go physical because its 99% of the time the same price but requires twice the effort and all the possible positives aren't provided because its incomplete on the cart/disc anyway.
Mario Tennis and Mario Golf on the Switch, with patches that were supposed to “flesh out” the game, which both launched with laughably shit single player experiences left such a bad taste in my mouth that I gave up all interest in physical and modern game “collecting”.
That’s the kind of thing that isn’t noticed till 5 years down the line when Nintendo looks around and wonders where the customers went.
You get a plastic scratch-off card with an activation code on Steam or the Epic Game Store™. It used to be a DVD case with a paper card inside, but even that's too expensive nowadays.
Online shopping (i.e. Amazon) is its own flavor of shitty, with rampant chinkshit counterfeits and shipping now taking longer than two days due to ongoing enshittification. That's not even mentioning the porch pirate problem.
But with regards to video games specifically, Amazon doesn't get launch-day deliveries with Nintendo (don't know about other publishers) anymore because they leak games like a sieve. The underpaid slave labor working the warehouses keep sending the games out 1-2 weeks early, if not outright stealing the games and leaking them on pirate sites themselves. You're still better off going brick-and-mortar if you care about playing on Day 1.
Fuck it. I'm going back to pirating.
Might look into the newest rasberry pi type of device and load it up with roms.
https://vimm.net/emulate
Yeah for Day 1 stuff is the one huge benefit they still have. If you want a physical copy of a game immediately you should always go to the store. Unless you are banking on them sending it early which I have had happen shockingly often when I did buy it (for games I didn't care if it was a bit late).
Honestly that Reddit stock manipulation has convinced them that they will never go under.