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They brought some of that on themselves.
They've had loads of employees, current and former, chime in on that "Circle of Life" mess, and admit they tanked some sales to hit what was basically their corporate K/D ratio. Not saying it's the biggest or the only reason, but it had to be a sizable chunk of those metrics. And I speak from a position of being a former employee for quite awhile (and technically over three districts). Things vary store to store, but a lot of "the most shitty" was universal. |
What is the circle of life for Gamestop?
Don't think it is a big deal shutting down some stores. I have 2 locations in the same mall and 1 literally 2 blocks away of said mall. I am sure the Switch is helping sales. The thing that probably hurts them the most is being able to digital download games with each console doing their own sales which js just as good or better than Gamestop (and any other retailer). |
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And Destiny 2 is shipping this year, presumably. Potential disaster.
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Tempted to get it even not having played it for a few months.
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Only real bright side is since their non-gaming sales are still good, they pretty much are just replacing those gaming stores with more non-gaming stores. |
An odd bright side since as a failed gaming store, rebooting into something makes them essentially irrelevant to anybody in this sub-forum.
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Today's News:
1) Bethesda recently released a new trailer for Prey. https://www.destructoid.com/here-s-s...y-427989.phtml 2) SALES & FREEBIES:
3) Bungie recently released a teaser trailer for Destiny 2 teasing the official debut for the game will occur on March 30. Similar to the first game, the PS4 version of Destiny 2 was also revealed to be having timed exclusive content. https://www.destructoid.com/the-firs...e-427993.phtml https://www.gamespot.com/articles/de.../1100-6449025/ 3) Telltale Games announced a new trailer for their upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy episodic series will arrive this Thursday and Episode 1 is currently set to arrive on April 18. https://www.destructoid.com/telltale...h-427979.phtml |
Game stop is finally suffering for their sins. Good.
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Essentially, sales metrics were tracked by the store and per employee at said store. A percentage of sales HAD TO BE - as in WAS REQUIRED from on high - to consist of used games, accessories, and a certain number of pre-orders had to be met. Again, per employee AND a target per store. It has long been one of the major complaints by customers (aside from trade pricing, but that's a whole 'nother discussion in and of itself) about the chain that employees are super pushy about pre-orders. This idea of each employee being mandated to get so many pre-orders under their belt per week is a major reason for that trainwreck. People don't *want* to be pushy, but when you're only there one or two days a week in a high volume store, you likely needed an ungodly amount of presales to "justify your position" as it were. There is likely a drawer full of applications of many other expendable, fresh faced nerds you can be replaced with ad infinitum with dreams of just working there around their favorite hobby just like you. Add into that the used sales. The policy was structured in such a way where selling new items such as games, accessories, and even systems, actively HURT the used game metrics by inflating the percentage of used stuff needed that week. If somebody came in and bought a shiny new PS4 and a few brand new games for their birthday, and didn't also plunk down about 8 pre-orders and buy a bunch of used shit, that's about $500 counting against not only that store, but that employee running the transaction. Customer has no reason to give a fuck. After all, they got what they came in for. The employee, however, is now sweating bullets. All of this came to a head with a recent Kotaku article where this toxic environment (finally) came out in the open to documented public knowledge as opposed to being something people "know" but don't/can't talk about much like that "EA Spouse" letter cracked the window on that publisher's shady ways a number of years back. As such, GameStop finally dialed back on the stringency of the policy (not because it was bad, mind you, but because of the PR mess- it's still a corporation, and had this not come out, you can bet your ass they would have still been doing the same old shit) and have recently started factoring in new sales into part of the business metric in a way that screws over their frontline grunts a tad less than it used to. *** I understand about the saturation. There are THREE GameStop locations near me: all of which are literally within the same two mile stretch... though some of that has to do with business consolidations over the years than just building redundant shops. The one at the mall was, once upon a time, a Software, ETC location, the next one down the street started life as a FuncoLand. The third was an actual, true GameStop location. They oddly hold their numbers, though, and don't cannibalize eachother's sales like you'd think they would, where other standalone locations nowhere near these three places that you'd think could thrive have come and gone. Even so, closing down a few places isn't exactly "The Fall of Rome" that people are portraying this as... *but* ... if they keep going, and need to close more after next year, then would be the time to start looking at it as a potential disaster for the company. |
I have no issue with them pushing pre-orders.
re: all the retards bitching about no Switches available and I was able to comfortably waltz in the store at my leisure and pick one up no problem |
You've never comfortably waltzed in your life
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Today's News:
1) EA announced the debut trailer for Star Wars Battlefront 2 will arrive on April 15. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fi.../1100-6449056/ 2) FREEBIES:
3) Nintendo released released a new Japanese-based trailer for Fire Emblem Echos. https://www.destructoid.com/get-an-i...t-428125.phtml 4) Newest firmware dashboard update for the Xbox One was revealed to include more icons possible for the home screen and menus now load a bit quicker than previously. https://www.destructoid.com/the-xbox...e-428198.phtml |
Today's News:
1) Sony announced a WipEout remastered set called WipEout Omega Collection will be arriving on June 7th for the PS4. The set includes WipEout HD, WipEout Fury, and WipEout 2048. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...to-ps4-in-june 2) Namco recently released a trailer for the new God Eater project currently in development. https://www.destructoid.com/surely-t...--428356.phtml 3) Activision and Bungie announced Destiny 2 is currently set to be released on September 8 and unlike the first game, will also be released for PC. Also announced more details will be revealed on May 18th, the game's Season Pass will cost $30, and has 2 collector's editions available at launch ($100 and $250). https://www.destructoid.com/destiny-...r-428396.phtml 4) SALES - Nintendo released the list of games available for this weeks sales on the eShop. http://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-...FBFC86E6AD9151 5) The co-founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, announced he is leaving the company although no official reason by Luckey nor Oculus was given. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/oc.../1100-6449089/ |
I don't even *own* a Playstation 4, and I'm salivating over WipE0ut. I wonder if all the music will still be intact?
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I like Wipeout but I'd rather have a remaster of the xtreme g series right about now. I miss that one.
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The Cade/Ikora portion of the Destiny sequel trailer seemed very... Firefly.
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Today's News:
1) SALES & FREEBIES:
2) Telltale Games recently released the debut trailer for their upcoming episodic Guardians of the Galaxy series. https://www.destructoid.com/get-tang...e-428422.phtml https://www.destructoid.com/get-tang...e-428422.phtml 3) Konami is currently facing a lawsuit from former soccer player Diego Maradona in regards to claims of Konami using his likeness without permission for Pro Evolution Soccer '17 MyClub mode. https://www.destructoid.com/argentin...i-428621.phtml 4) According to reports, the PS4 Share feature for Persona 5 has been disabled with the official reason related to Atlus not wanting people to spoil any part of the game using the PS4. The feature was originally blocked with the Japanese version late last year and Atlus is keeping the share embargo intact with the Western version as well. http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/29/151...share-disabled |
Mad Catz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Hold on to those fight pads and video game instruments. They'll be worth something one of these days. |
Today's News:
1) Naughty Dog announced they are currently working on a Jak and Daxter series set for the PS4 although it won't be remaster versions of the PS2 games nor include online multiplayer for Jak X: Combat Racing. https://www.destructoid.com/jak-and-...t-429207.phtml 2) Rocksteady Games announced the previously PSVR exclusive Batman: Arkham VR will be arriving on April 25th for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. https://www.destructoid.com/batman-a...h-429176.phtml 3) During a recent livestream event, Marvel's vice president Ryan Penagos revealed PS4 exclusive Spider-Man game is currently planned to be released later this year. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps.../1100-6449146/ 4) Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently rumored to be getting new details revealed within the next few weeks as part of Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One Scorpio showcase. https://www.destructoid.com/red-dead...e-429125.phtml |
Today's News:
1) New details regarding the Xbox One Scorpio will be arriving this Thursday by way of an exclusive report from Digital Foundry. https://www.destructoid.com/we-ll-pr...s-429444.phtml 2) SALES & FREEBIES:
3) Square Enix announced NieR: Automata has managed to sell around 1 million copies since its launch and includes digital sales. https://www.destructoid.com/nier-aut...n-429367.phtml 4) Update to recent PS4 Spider-Man game news as Insomniac Games hinted they can't guarantee it being done by the end of the year like Marvel is expecting. https://www.destructoid.com/marvel-s...--429263.phtml 5) Sega currently rumored to be making a Bayonetta related announcement next week based on a recent teaser website launched. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/se.../1100-6449155/ |
Today's News:
1) SALES & FREEBIES:
2) Saber Interactive studio announced they are currently working on an NBA Jam/Streets inspired game called NBA Playgrounds and is set to be released this May for PC, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. https://www.destructoid.com/smoke-cl...d-429621.phtml 3) Similar to other PC ports released by Warner Bros, the PC version of Lego City Undercover was revealed to be suffering from performance and other issues on the platform. All recently released versions were previously reported to be suffering from long load time issues. https://www.destructoid.com/psa-lego...c-429578.phtml 4) Gazillion Entertainment studio announced previously PC exclusive Marvel Heroes will be getting a PS4 and Xbox One port arriving later this year. https://www.destructoid.com/action-r...s-429620.phtml |
More arcade sports games are always good.
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Today's News:
1) Atlus announced they have shipped/sold around 1.5 million copies of Persona 5 since its release and is the second game in series history to go over 1 million in sales (Persona 4 being the other). https://www.destructoid.com/persona-...s-429832.phtml 2) NetherRealm Studios recently released two new trailers for Injustice 2 focusing on Gorilla Grodd and Captain Cold. https://www.destructoid.com/gorilla-...r-429779.phtml 3) SALES:
4) According to a report from Digital Foundry, specs for the Xbox One Scorpio includes native support for 4K gaming at 60 FPS, 12GB in RAM (GDDR5 like the PS4), and contains a 1TB hard drive. In terms of other areas, GPU is around 4.6 times more powerful than regular Xbox One, no support for Kinect devices, and Game DVR will support higher resolutions. Price wasn't revealed but Digital Foundry thinks it might be around $500. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pr.../1100-6449212/ |
Today's News:
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2) Konami announced they are currently working on a new game in the Castlevania series for pachinko machines. https://www.destructoid.com/ha-konam...e-429944.phtml 3) CD Projekt Red is currently dealing with some backlash in regards to trademarking the word "cyberpunk" for their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 game. The company claimed it was done to ensure future games could use the word and will only go after those who purposely try to confuse customers if they use the word for their own games. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/th.../1100-6449233/ 4) Gearbox currently dealing with some backlash in regards to how they handled their partnership with key reseller G2A. First tried to claim they were unaware of G2A's bad reputation as a key reseller store, then did an ultimatum to G2A as a way to shift blame away from themselves for the deal, and then claimed it was developer People May Fly and not them that wanted the partnership. https://www.destructoid.com/gearbox-...p-429862.phtml https://www.destructoid.com/gearbox-...n-430029.phtml |
Can we just make a blood pact that we don't even type the word Pachinko in here? A pachinko machine of a licensed game property does not videogame news make.
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I was thinking the same thing.
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�� gamer police
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Hey some of us like Pachinko.
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Today's News:
1) New trailer for Injustice 2 focusing on The Flash was recently released. https://www.destructoid.com/the-flas...r-430516.phtml 2) FREEBIES:
3) Microsoft announced an upcoming update for the PC versions of Minecraft will include an in-game store allowing players the ability to sell content and mods created in the game. https://www.destructoid.com/minecraf...--429347.phtml 4) During a recent interview with Glixel, Peter Moore revealed a shouting argument with the creator of the Sonic series ended up being the final straw for his tenure at Sega. At the time, Moore was Sega of America's COO and kept trying to convince Sega of drastic changes needed if they wanted to stay in the hardware market. Instead he kept getting yelled at and called a liar to the point he had enough and left in favor of Microsoft's fledgling Xbox division. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pe.../1100-6449263/ |
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Damn, XBox Scorpio supports Freesync and it should be coming in the 2.1 HDMI spec. That's a gamechanger.
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Today's News:
1) Gears of War 4 developer The Coalition announced an upcoming update for the game will allow cross-play between PC and Xbox One players for ranked matches. https://www.destructoid.com/gears-of...s-430753.phtml 2) Netherrealm Studios recently released another new trailer for Injustice 2 focusing on the game's gear system. https://www.destructoid.com/newest-i...m-430681.phtml 3) SALES:
4) Update to recent Sega teaser announcement news as it was revealed to be for the PC version of Bayonetta which was released today and supports enhanced graphical features. Also announced was everyone who purchases the game from now till April 25th will get Deluxe version for free. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ba.../1100-6449282/ |
Hoping Frontier Developments finally gives us a date for PS4 version of Elite: Dangerous pretty soon. They said quarter 2, we're in April already.
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For those living on the "edge" of game graphics (especially consoles), yes.
10k resolution, etc. |
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