How GameStop will SAVE Video Game Collectors
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Is Gamestop really our only hope? Let's talk about it...
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I have had a GameStop pro membership for 2 years now, and I buy at least one physical game every month from them every month with my $5 pro coupon.
That's great!
I used to do that. But I would aim to buy like a $10 game just to spend only $5 and realized I’m just buying a bunch of cheap games that I’ll never really play. Then I would convert it to $5 digital currency but they stopped that too. I think moving forward I’m gonna pass on the GameStop membership because I work for Best Buy and get discounts on games there. If I ever don’t work there, maybe I’ll go back to GameStop for the $5 a month.
GameStop doesn't care about collectors at all. I ordered 5 "new" games from them and 4/5 weren't even sealed. The one switch game I ordered didn't even come with a case. They have done it for years
I really do hate their definition of *new!*
No store cares about collectors they just one our money
It’s happened to me a couple of times. This needs to change otherwise no one will trust GameSrop ever. I mean I don’t trust them to send me a “new” game anymore unless it just came out then it’s most likely what you will come to expect other than a “new” game in a GameStop case.
I would be cool with digital media only if it was $15-$20 cheaper to buy so. But to pay same price is cray-Z.. like Alan wake 2 was $59 instead of $70. Cool. But I love shopping physically but when it’s hard to get ugh sometimes digital convenience is nice but if the game sucks I can’t sell it lol
I tried buying a new game from GameStop, it wasn't new anymore after they opened it. Then they wouldn't discount it. And they put that stupid sticker on all the game cases. I don't buy games from them anymore.
vinyl proves that regardless how mediums change, our dragon brains love owning things.
Lol totally!
I didn’t know that Walmart is going to stop selling phisical games next year. That a shame. I live in Puerto Rico and down here Walmart is the easiest way to get phisical games. We only have 1 Best Buy store on the island and game stop left PR almost 10 years ago. Even we have some local game stores, they’re are mostly in the San Juan area and some time they even more expensive then Walmart. I guess I’ll be shopping a lot more on Amazon for games from now on
They haven't announced the video game part yet, only media so far. But we suspect it's probably coming soon
Great video! Micro-center and local game stores are my go to for most electronics at this point.
Excellent 😀
I'm so happy you made this video. Sadly gamestops in my city don't really have a lot of games. Mainly it's just the same games I see very time I go to gamestop.
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Same here. I See more and more people finding SNES, N64 and PS2 stuff there but whenever I ask my local stores they always tell me “go to The Exchange” (a regional chain that specializes in used media)
I never considered the angle that GameStop can come out big winners in all this 😮
You never know! 🙂
hahahaha. Seems so. I was in like 2 GameStops in Europe and I can tell you, not really vintage things around there. but seems to be a problem in europe, not the USA
I get really lucky there. Last week, I found a gamestop card in my old wallet with $48 from trade ins on it. Also had $20 in points and my $5 off for the month. I found a sealed copy of xenoblade 2, a used copy of nurse love obsession, new copy of tales of vesperia, and Octopath 1 & 2 and I got it all for like $55. All on the switch. Gamestop comes through sometimes!!
Awesome!
With physical media going away Gamestop has the perfect opportunity to future proof there business. They need to start getting more selective on games they take paying more for cond, cib, etc. and pay less for cart only or games in poor condition. I stopped at a local Gamestop they had a shoebox with about 20 cart only 3ds games that were priced the same as they were cib.
Argh thats frustrating
I agree 100% about the loose vs. complete prices at GameStop. I don't ever buy anything through their website seeing so many CZcamsrs and friends of mine that don't get CIB games when they order them through the website.
Tim Horton's serves chicken.....as a Canadian that hurt mah souuullllll
Thanks for the video. I don’t agree with everything Gamestop done, but they have not received credit for the great deals they provide for years.
Good point!
younger generation likes collecting vinyl and cassette but that's it, no physical games or what. most of them like purchasing just because of aesthetic
edit: not complaining tho
I'm 18 and i get damn depressed seeing how these new generations disrespect physical media so much, I want to fight this battle as much as possible, Absolutely hate seeing how physical games are dying and many don't care about it, i mean, i guess FIFA/COD/Fortnite people now dont ever have to see the sun, talk nor touch grass....
Physical forever!
Nvme SSDs are extremely expensive the larger the size a gen four 4 terabyte ssd costs almost as much as a console.
Is there a GameStop values list? Anything like that?
Not yet, but hopefully someday 😀
They gotta fix their “new” game policy. Because they do it a 1000 times a day. Sell an opened game to a customer at the full MSRP retail new price. They do it online, they do it in the store. And it’s company policy. It’s “new” because they say it’s new.
Totally! I hate when they do that
Excellent points! One of my local GameStop guys was taking risks on retro trade ins for the last year or so and he said they are back out the door within a few hours every time.
This also kinda feels like when TRU went out of business. Even though that was a raw deal overall they dipped right before the massive collectible boom we’ve had in the last 5yrs. Which is why places like Best Buy has so many more collectibles now.
I was waiting for your vid!!!! My sundays are incomplete without your Sunday vids!
Aw thanks so much 😀
The only problem i see for gamestop is they have been shutting down like crazy. I used to have 3 within a close distance to me 1 just a mile away. All Gone in the last 3 years the clsoest one for me is 15 miles away. I know thats not far in reality but i live in Northern Virginia this isnt a small town area. I used to stop at my local one like once a week cause it was right on my way home. was sad to see them go. (its now a UPS store). But that said i am lucky because Estarlands physical store is here so i just go there when i am looking for retro stuff
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Thanks!
How are the pillows with an arcade stick?
We don't really play fighting games so I'm honestly unsure 😅
If you prefer it elevated higher than your normal lap position, it would work phenomenally
Treat your retro physical games like gold and keep them well conditioned. As these stores close out their physical media sales, retro collecting is just going to sky rocket, big time.
Walmart and Bestbuy are making huge mistakes with this. People thought books and VHS would totally die out, but physical medias from those generations are coming back as huge collector's markets already. More and more people are waking up to the positives of owning things in real time instead of everything being digital and easily manipulated or downright erased on you.
We're going into a very interested yet possibly scary time for us media collectors. Let's see what happens.
It's pretty scary for sure!
yes, games are going to get to a $100 price tag bought my son spiderman 2 it was $75 alone.
Yeah, it's getting there 😞
Tim Hortons :o
Deep cut
Lol
as a Canadian that Tim Horton's slander
Haha sorry! You can tell we haven't been to Canada 😅
@JRPGLife haha fair, it was sapoust to be more of a dramatic/sarcastic, I've been offended. text and don't always say what you want it to
I want to support my local stores but GameStop has socks and I'm getting older 🤷
Lol
Bullmoose 🙏💚
If you are still buying physical media and retail in Best Buy you got issues. Hence why they dont carry much. Their prices blow.
Good point
love you guys. no matter what the videos are about, i enjoy watching. thanks for all the hard work you put into your channel. i could not do it. on my little channel i just share my unboxing mostly. hahahaha. not much editing in anything else but a 100 year old programme needed. LOL.
I wished you would be like my neighbor. I could listen to you all day long and wonder through your game collection. keep up the good work, please stay around for long time so that the viewer can enjoy your vids. thanks!
Thank you so much for the kind words 😀
On the point of PS5 and digital only versions and PS6 possibly being digital only: I've become so disillusioned with modern games that I'm not even going to bother with curent or subsequent gens.
As a Canadian that part about Tim Hortons made me laugh lol.. where i live in Newfoundland the only big store we have for video games is pretty much just Walmart, GameStop, Best Buy (but that's 7hrs away from me 😮💨), The Source (the one in my town closed permanently 🙄) & maybe Toys R Us (idk if they sell video games but thats another one 7hrs away from me😅)
if consoles go fully digital im just moving to pc, physical games is basically all consoles have going for them
Also some of the publishers you can buy them directly
I have Vintage Stock I go to as well when I do
Always got love for gamestop especially my local store
Another thing Gamestop should start doing,stop freaking selling Funko pops,and use all that retail space for more games,or retro games,the Funko market is really crashing these days,theres just no point in those things taking so much space in any store
Agreed!
Ehhhh.. Actually around here Gamestops have been closing down. We went from 5-6 to only two. I think they are really going to focus on their online store more too. When I went to Gamestop last, they only had the new games for each console and didn't even have used and didn't even have PS4 or Xbox 1 games really.
That's a bummer 😞
It stinks a little but I'm not a huge Gamestop fan as much anymore. Im lucky and got a local mom and pop store that usually gives me better trade in value and sometimes holds stuff for me if they know I like it. @@JRPGLife
GameStop is on a continuing downward spiral, i just made several trips there last couple months and why would they be selling so many physical copies for .99-4.99 cheap cheap?! Not too many retro games either, some 360 an ps3, found a good DS game myself for $50 Shin Megami but not much else
I’ll throw my two cents in as someone who worked nearly 7 years at gamestop. I never really had any proper training on counterfeit games, but I know some of the things to check for such as print quality and the casing on the cartridge, albeit those were things I learned on my own time. Most employees probably also don’t stay on long enough to learn some of that info seeing as pay, hours, and responsibilities are all out of whack for it to be a job where people want to stay long term. On the point of gamestop being the way forward for physical games, I think it may head that way, but I’d doubt there will be as many locations as there are now. Gamestop needs to focus up on what it wants to be as well since you all probably can see the sheer volume of “not games” we have. I do like them having things like statues and trading cards, but the ratios on games to collectibles is pretty skewed. But, the idea of them being the last big retailer for physical could be a decent way to keep it kicking around longer. Anyway, I’ve got more well formed thoughts somewhere in my head, but this is kind of wordy for a YT comment lol. Either way though, I love the content you guys make, and always look forward to your next videos. :)
Love the thoughts from an insider! Thanks for commenting 😀
This is exactly what I was referring to in my comments. Employees need proper training for a business to be successful ❤ And it helps the employee be successful too 😊
always going to support my local video games stores where I shop for my retro stuff and GameStop for modern stuff in Texas where I live don't want physical games to die not
Physical forever!
I live in the country, internet is not an option. I have to bring my systems somewhere in order to update. Digital? We need a better internet everywhere first. Storage has always been hard. Have to have multiple external hard drives. I feel they need to get back to storage on the game physically. I don’t do digital. If it goes that way I’ll go deaper into retro. Seems they also limit quantities of games for pre orders in order to push digital. So how can they say there aren’t enough sales physically if they don’t have the availability, of course digital would be higher. I haven’t bought any systems that are online only or any games that require internet in order to play them.
The FF XIII soundtrack in the background is an outstanding choice! Best soundtrack of the best FF in my eyes!
Yes!
Yes!!
I really appreciate you speaking about drive space. I have 3 TB on my PS4. Still not enough.
Right?!
Why can’t they design some way to re sell digital media unique to a certain code or something
Right?!
Best Buy said blu rays/dvds and 4k ultra hd. Never said anything about video games.
Yep, the point is that they didn't say anything about video games yet...we will see 😁
@@JRPGLife I work at a Best Buy and we just remodeled the video game section and shrank it. The aisles were huge and always empty. Partially due to employees not stocking the games because many of them required security cases. Now they’re half the size but much more presentable and manageable/easier to keep up with. I highly doubt Best Buy eliminates physical games ever. With movies there’s so many streaming services and alternatives to watch everything. You have 10-20 different services you can subscribe to. With video games, there’s only 3. PS Plus, Game Pass and Switch online. And neither is all inclusive, so you only get the games for that company. Whereas like, Netflix, includes a wide variety of movies. So until they make a subscription service where you can get every game at your fingertips (even Steam doesn’t provide that i.e. no Nintendo games,) I don’t think they’ll ever fully eliminate physical games anywhere.
I wanna play FFXIII now for some reason. 😂
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Mission accomplished!
I can see movies I’ve gone fully digital on that. I’ve had Vudu for 12 years and movies anywhere for like 8. Never had a movie disappear after buying it. I just don’t trust Nintendo and Sony but especially Nintendo about pulling games. They’ve got a history of that crap. I bought super Metroid on the wii store that should be on my account for the switch it is not.
So yea I still buy physical games every time. Plus something cool about a collection
physical media forever!
Where in Arizona?
Phoenix area 😀
Nice. By the way, if you love Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow is even better. That game and Symphony of the Night are my favorite Castlevania games!@@JRPGLife
Shout out to Timmies! Much love from Canada.
Haha we will have to try it one day!
small correction on the ps5 slim you can get the disk drive for it separately for $75 I think it was but all slims can use a disk drive its just sold separately
Interesting to see this development in the US. Here in EU (Norway) gamestop has for the past few years disappeared completely. And we don't have any other videogame stores. The big electronics retailers are the only ones selling physical media, and one of them (Elkjøp) even have a 10% discount on all new physical games. So its basically the opposite of whats going on in the US it seems
Interesting!
Honestly Gamestop has come in the clutch for me on my 3ds hunting. I have found the crazies CIB 3ds games that are 100$+ games for super cheap, I just couldnt believe those games were there. Some I found Yokai Watch 3, Kirby Epic Extra Yarn, Metal of gear and some other cool 3ds games. 😊
That's great! 😀
I worry that stores won’t have the opportunity to save collectors because there won’t be physical options on consoles. We know Microsoft doesn’t care about physical games and Sony will follow. Our only hope is Nintendo. The age gaps are also worrying because my brother is 10 years younger than me and he doesn’t own a single game. He cares about gamepass and that’s all.
That generation is definitely not helping lol
What happens when there are no consoles that accept physical media?
Great question! We hope it doesn't come to that 😞
It’s sad that I may have to resort to going to fucking GameStop to keep physical media alive. Their selection is always piss poor even for stuff as new as PS4 and Xbox One. I usually buy physical games from a local chain that specializes in used games but orders new ones too, but game companies likely depend on big box retailers to sell physical media to even keep it in production.
It's tough for sure
Love this video! Great job guys!
Thanks so much 😀
sounds rough in the usa, inthe netherlands we have intertoys, bar smith , toys r us , mediamarkt and gamemania
Wow!
I buy off playasia too. Some cool games on there
I agree, as much as i dislike thier policies over the years(i really wish gameXchange was more regularly available as i feel like they are what gamestop should have become instead of walls of funkos but theres way too few locations) i feel once gamestop goes that will start a rapid spiral of games not bothering with physical. So i feel they are a necessary evil as i love going to random hole in the wall stores finding that one obscure game that never goes down in price(i recently scored a copy of summon night 6 for ps4 in that has a few dings in the case but the disc is in great shape for 22$ at a peddlers mall in Louisville. A game that literally never went on sale digitally and is now delisted on ps4 sou your only option is either snag the vita version that somehow is still up or pay a ton for a physical copy) and if gamestop goes good luck trying to find that atelier neptunia game a month after release and the game stores we have left will get greedy and charge 90$ or more a year down the line.
I used to go to gamestop as a kid now I get my games from Amazon 🥴
I REALLY dont like the idea of all our games being digital only.. when theyre digital like that you dont really own them.. like take the eshop, lets say something happened to your system or your account. youll never be able to get the games you bought back. same with any digital storefront really. if you lost your account info, or it got hacked or if one of the companies decide to shut down the digital store front, how would you get your games that you paid for?
Agreed!
You don’t have to worry about Nintendo Japan is a hard physical country
My biggest complaint about digital games is that they rarely go on sale like their physical counterparts.
100%!
I don't think that game developers will produce physical games for GameStop if they are the only one's left. It won't be worth it to produce the small amount for just GameStop. I am a physical game collector as well and will certainly miss physical games when they're not being produced anymore. I'm worried about the hard drive space issue as well. They need to certainly make it easier to add external hard drives to future game systems. I really hope they go away from system specific hard drives as well. We will have to see what happens. It all seems to be happening too quick.
Go GameStop go 👍
Let's go!!
Yeah i feel gamestop is gonna explode in popularity again by the end of 2024 & 2025😅
Fingers crossed! 🤞
Sounds like we may have to hope for it. I vote for JRPGLIFE as new Gamestop CEOs 😊
Lol
Awesome video guy & lady 😎!
Thanks so much!
My son is 19 and he prefers physical media. He likes to see it on his shelf and he likes the guarantee that he wont loose it if something happens to his account or system. He has been working lately to get his favorite movies on DVD and albums on records or cds because he wants the gaurantee of being able to have it. For him digital is unpredictable and vulnerable.
Very cool! It's great to hear the younger generation is still into it 😀
This is a very strange time for physical media for sure. Luckily for me, I have a video game store that does sell new releases along with retro. Great topic 💪🔥🙌🎃
Awesome!
The hardest thing to purchase if you wait to long are Jrpgs the prices just skyrocket and it doesn’t take that long price gouging as well it’s a scalpers paradise right now!
Yeah, JRPGs are the best though! 😀
So is GME looking for another meme stock run?
Haha we'll see
Keep rolling! Much love to the JRPG!
BABYMETAL
Yes!
Awesome video yall 👏
Thanks so much!
FF20 in 2D sounds amazing. Square, hire these guys! :)
Hahaha
we have 3 locations in roanoke and we are a mom and pop store you thing game stop is competition smh they actually send people to us lol GameStop is not you’re saving grace they dont sell games they sell collectibles mainly
Happy to hear you're on to sky SC! Love that series. And SC is one of my favorites
Best buy said movies and Walmart said Xbox games, but probably is just a matter of time before Best Buy and Walmart stop selling games in general. But we should be good with physical games at least for the rest of this generation. Probably will be sooner for Xbox to get rid of physical games but with PS and Nintendo, well that is considering if Nintendo doesn't start doing it with its next console we should be good for a while. PS is literally coming out with a slim with a detachable disk drive which wouldnt make too much sense if they werent going to keep making physical games. Going into the next gen of consoles im not too sure about.
It's going to be interesting to see how the next few years pan out for sure
I’ve been saying this and no one listened to me
Great video I am definitely keeping my GameStop pro membership
Thanks for watching!
keep it Ridigb
I’ve been a big GameStop supporter as of late and had mostly good experiences. But as for the fakes I see them pretty often, especially Pokémon. I had one worker even tell me they were fake and said they can’t pull them off the shelf though.
Wow thats wild 😳
If Gamestop wants to recover their reputation they need a CEO that will take this seriously. Someone who specifically knows and understands the gaming world and collectors! They need a training program for employees that is universal between stores. They need to STOP selling games as NEW and they arrive unsealed. That pisses me off most of all! I want the @#$% earned privilege of opening , or not, that game. Am I right? I have a personal *itch about them too. Bought my first collectable statuette. It was on clearance, so figured wtf. It arrived broken. They refused to do anything about it. So I got angry and demanded help from higher up the food chain. Got another email asking questions and for pictures. Sent it off. NEVER heard back. Not one word. SMH Bad business practices don't make me want to do business with @gamestop much anymore 😢 They need to greatly step up customer service.
Man that is rough! TOTALLY agree with you regarding *new* games though!
100%. Gamestop has a massive opportunity here. They are incompetent but they could turn it around. Systems still need to be sold. They can be the last remaining brick and mortar selling them. They could partner with publishers like limited run games, super rare etc for more niche titles. They could focus more on collectores less on just the call of duty crowd. There is a lot of potnetial there. And if the rest of the competition fails... its all up for grabs.
100%!
Once physical games are done for good and digital is the only way to go, more companies like Limited Run Games, Strictly Limited Games and, Super Rare games are going to pop up. I wouldn’t doubt that GameStop starts getting games printed also like they did with Xenoblade on the Wii. The one thing about GameStop is that they don’t care about the collectors as they will list a game as new on the website but once you receive it, it will be in a generic case or sleeve with a sticker on it that says NEW. GameStop has definitely had some shady practices in the past and continue to sell opened games as new so I wouldn’t trust them as being the savior for collectors.
We can only hope the physical games continue 😀
Another thing is I wonder if this will affect their stock prices again.
It's interesting to think about. Besides Disney not in my region it is a thought of oh Sony/others in the Blu ray alliance and such stop is when physical media really stops and will be scary. So if we have collectors editions sure.
Yeah big games I wonder. While the servers got people going again will my sealed copy of BF3 matter probably not. Will my sealed Blu ray of an anime. Or manga. Nope not likely.
Factory resets ah. Whether physical digital, whether memory cards/hard drives what saves, what game installs from profiles. Ah the possibilities. Account systems.
I wonder about death. I think wills can be worked for that or account access from others but still scary stuff there too no one really talks about accounts and death.
Disk drives hmm if encryption/online like the PS5 one that's separate grr.
Hard drive space is going to duck some 2 disk games already exist it wasn't as common on PS4 let alone the yep rush it. Storage versus whatever makers and external drives. 1.0 versions are rare even. I only have a few PS4, Vita, Switch, Xbox One and such that do.
$100 for me already so $150 for me would be too much. I already buy $50 or cheaper as it is. Even AAs or Indies at launch $50 is great.
I think if youtubers do it's likely a younger gen will care or the second youngest gens doing the messaging. I fit the gen for 5-7th gen games so my gen cares but a small group of us likely. If the Scott the Wozs and more do it's something. I watch them I see a fair amount of similar age and mentality as well matters. I loved console gaming since 4 years old I've played flash/mobile games and know of the quality I don't play them anymore more to emu or music playback on my phone then anything or carry a handheld. I know the differences. Besides so many Gen X collector channels or Baby Boomer are great with their messaging as well. The young gen games get off storefronts so much they care about games so it's unlikely.
I think most times we know enough about games, repros no clue but niche stuff nah most times us knowledgeable we know more than the mainstream sales they want.
I see the odd Rocket League and go yep it had a standard edition disk. But Fortnite nope digital physical. Do they care for in person maybe? I mean if with a parent they likely do. If parents aren't into gaming for sure.
But otherwise no idea. That's the best I can answer besides my generation pushing younger to go hey these PS4/Xbox One might be your oldest. Or this and that of physical. What backwards compatibility even is and if they care.
I do wonder. Messaging or physical. What's easier, what's known to each person and a small group that cares besides the next trend all the time.
What phone apps/games survive and get archived/BlueStacks emulated too.
I get PS3/360 and others for $5, Skyward Sword Wii or other exceptions for $100 (nope glad got it $20 digital Wii U eshop when HD came out) or around a few $20+. Burnout 3 for $32. It varies at least for my prices, anything they know is notable. Of Nintendo games, Star Wars 6th gen games (Xbox OG of my reference which as Xbox OG are usually cheap). Whatever particular titles. GameCube of course does. So been interesting seeing a few stores to compare.
But a Gameboy for $300/400+ (games around $60+ I think maybe $30 range who knows for batteries) or SNES for $200+ hmm. Master System 2 can't remember but who has an RF TV anymore? I don't even know what the RF or PAL situation is for old consoles of that age cable connections. Atari2600 glad for the collections modern same with 5200/7800 Lynx and Jaguar would be cool but glad Atari 50 exists for those I see the Lynx box never seen the handheld IRL. But it's cool in research. XD
Getting $3 of Infamous Second Son and First Light $18 at EB Games..... Hmmmm I'm used to it though for varied prices of such. Between EB and 2 retro game stores (well used and other objects of tech, laptops, movies /tv shows, engineering and more so not completely but good enough for me).
But yeah if movie studios, game publishers, music studios, if limited run or others can't. EB/Gamestop is something but who knows how long besides games that cycle like retro game stores used as the only things then NEW.
I go to EB if I have to for specific stuff especially anime games they have many of the AA stuff I need that major stores with games and other items don't have so I need EB to exist for those even besides the odd big stuff. But particular anime games (the non mainstream kind I mean that's why so worried as anything that's even under surface level becomes questionable if it gets a Part 1&2 anime DVDs/Blu ray, or complete edition or collectors. I always get happy to see what ones are popular enough besides the well at least got the episodes or manga digital and translated right? But physical I always am on the look out for each S2+ or whatever below mainstream but popular enough shows. Most are complete 1-12 episodes , sometimes specials, sometimes OVAs but you never know) yeah if that happens I'm stuffed. Same as my current anime buying is 1 store. Not the 2 I had before RIP Music store with other offerings in my town at least not completely gone thankfully.
I don't go for their merchandise at all EB. I got my store's last on shelf 3DS game so that was nice I know as I keep checking every few days and photoing them. XD but yeah the $18 to $28 to $47 to whatever is a bit ridiculous besides the well Agents of Mayhem or Balan prices of $2 or $10 last I checked. I was happy about my $20 contribution NEW to Balan I wanted it and knew it would flop why pay for something you know will fail right? It can't save it whether $90 or $20. Loop8 I wonder if it will but paid $50 just encase out of availability. I haven't bought a Marvellous game physical before so never know. Other AAs never had the issue. But when I see some I get them of niche visual novels or JRPGs because I never see them again for obvious reasons of availability and I found them enjoyable games besides a hmm what's this or brief research on the spot.
But yeah I buy what I need in there every so often but the varied of the other retro game locations I go to more as I see good pickups of course. Besides the odd manga/anime in other stores of course.
I mean I got my Vitas, Switch and more there. No way paying $400+ for a Switch I paid the $300 preowned price and happy. XD $100/200 for Vitas 1000 $200, 2000 $100, $59 for PS3 Super Slim, PSP 2000 I think was $60 something. They work still no problem and know enough the game or console quality when I buy them too. Or what models. But yeah could they be DKOldies like maybe? eBay probably close or under.
But yeah never bought PS3 or so and gone yep that's expensive if I get $5 each besides maybe certain ones at one store then the other. Then people going ah yes these first party cost this much at DKOldies. Hmmmm. I have seen some of their prices and gone hmm to eBay maybe. To EB when my local one HAD PS3/360 and under still not as bad I bet. But then again they are used not complete always but good enough of complete to case and disk is good enough for me. If it works it works. RIP Lost Odyssey for 360 with no first disk so that had to be returned to EB. I could have waited but I have not seen the game since so I'll wait it out. I did Driver San Francisco and got it on 360 later than an earlier PS3 copy so why not. :)
When my physical music store that also sold movies/tv shows and anime I was sad. The business was prioritising online more I think so that store being removed was sad I think and we had a cosmetics store replace it. RIP.
I knew people barely went in there I only bought anime there but it was still high enough of $50-60 or so I was like eh do I want to. I am picky with my anime and while Danganronpa was there I didn't pick it up at the time due to fair reasons unlike now where I only have 1 option so I go to that store for anime and games on occasion and got a book store for manga now so timing grrr. I could go to my local comic shop but it only has the more particular series I don't care for so might as well go to the book store with more variety then only mainstream action series when if I want slice of life/drama it isn't going to be there. I started my manga buying at that comic book store but since nah library or book store now. XD RIP besides being in an ok position now then a small slotted place before so it's doing better I guess?
But yeah collectors wanting physical and we get less and less over time. Prices changing its going to be a challenge. I don't buy online either so that's a challenge for me as it is. I could but eh I get what I need in person besides the town I'm in so it's fine. Everything is so close by and there why bother right? Or get the store to ship it up which I am with manga now.
But ah digital art books isn't the same. I appreciate them physical even the dmtiny Switch ones ah Disagea 6. XD
How they handle soundtracks as codes then a digital app/the files? An add to Spotify maybe? Even if you don't use the platform? I had to for the Shovel Knight Wii U physical I got used in EB and the code still worked so hard to make a Bandcamp account I think to unlock it. I know it's a fair service but when I use SoundCloud more.. But limited code use grrr Disagea 6.
I wonder about a lot for digital on the console side, cloud, resolution, tier fees and more happening over time. Retro I'll go for sure already am for most cool ideas in games to research or failed consoles.
But here's to physical for as long as it does last and ignoring digital physical games. Those banners grrr. But hoping the games are good and not bad as well got to be picky but also get at a good price and help physical...... Yeah that works right? XD Hmmm
Love the FF13 OST used earliest in the video. :)
At least robot cache exists on the PC side as a possible solution for selling digital PC games at least? I only know it as a sponsor no idea how effective it is. Console yeah not going to happen.
Forgot to add that detail for some reason even though had it in mind.
GameStop is a big turd and I'm not holding my breath on them saving anything. As far as physical games going away or future consoles being digital only, I like the Switch enough and I'm old enough that I can probably game hunt for Switch games for the rest of my life.
I thought Best Buy already confirmed that physical media just meant movies / tv shows
They did, but we mentioned that we think video games are following soon 😀
I wish Gamestop in Canada had retro games, I'd probably go there more often. I like them though, just bought a PS5 from them recently.
I mean is not that the new generation dosent care, kids dont care I used to not care, everybody
If you in the UK game shop are a rarity, our games shops are now inside soccer shops. its a sad time here only a few places to go now
Wow...
The Spiral of Tim Hortons being a Best Buy equivalent to a fast food restaurant that sells fried chicken 💀
Hahaha
I walked into GameStop the other day and see in the switch section - Wii / Wii U - games on the shelf next to the Switch games ! There is hope !
I use to buy new titles from my local game store where he would just go to GameStop and buy them for customers who asked for them. And then just resell them to them. I got a ton of WiiU games that way, and got to fully support my local gaming store, and GameStop.
those gamer floatly pillows are neat
Lol we actually LOVE them
I just picked up a copy of The Wizard of Oz, Beyond the Yellow Brick Road CIB for the DS for $29.99. You can find deals, you just have to frequent the stores regularly to find them. 9 out of 10 times, there is nothing, but that one find, makes it worth the grind.
Absolutely agree 😀
hey just wanted to give you a reminder that tucson biggest anime is going to happening 11/3-5 and it called con-nichiwa.
Thanks for the reminder! 😀
yeah i love going to my local Tim Hortons for my physical media, lol but it is very sad that we are losing out on physical media
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Lol