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).
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).