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- Nintendo is facing some big changes behind the scenes and it looks like Microsoft's new console has leaked online with several images appearing.
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00:00 - Start
00:54 - PS Plus Games For April
2:16 - Star Ocean Second Story R Update
3:41 - F-Zero Maximum Velocity Going To NSO
4:47 - Nintendo Restructures Contractors At NOA
9:28 - New Marvel Hero Shooter Announced
11:42 - Xbox Series X Revision Images Leak
15:29 - GameStop Struggles Lead To More Layoffs
18:04 - Poll
19:06 - Comment Of The Day
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If GameStop had retro games on the Shelf it would definitely keep it alive a lot longer
Replace the wall of funky pops with retro games. Kind of like how they were before these stupid ass pops took over the store.
Last time I went it was mostly tshirts. It was weird, barely any games even for current consoles
These past few months I saw xbox, wii, and gamecube games for sale. Sometimes certain stores have a trial for this stuff. Check back every now and then. Sometimes there's decent deals. Last pickup I got was Morrowind and Metroid Other M, both complete.
*all us 🤦🏿♀️
and being able to reprint the art covers for a fee. granted harder for retro games but playstation eta to modern seems lucrative
Contract workers, don't get paid by Nintendo, only Nintendo pays the Contract Agency, then the Agency pays the Contract Worker. I worked on contracts before, sometimes if the company you're contract to work with likes how you contribute, may end up hiring you directly to the company.
I did work for Nintendo as a contract worker 15 years ago (in Lotcheck). It all only depends on the agency you're employed by.I had a freaking amazing agency that went above and beyond for me, but I was working with colleagues in the same position in other agencies that scammed the living hell out of them.
I stopped buying from GameStop when they sold me resealed games as “new.”
It’s not a mass layoff if they are contractors??? Contractors aren’t full time employees. They are under contract. When the contract ends so does their work.
Crazy how people are not understanding this.
@@kahp1072 they always want to spin that narrative
@@kahp1072 People don't know how to read.
Nintendo ending contracts early tho really does make it count tho
@@jameswalterthethird except it doesn't
The fact that Nintendo really likes their game cartridges is one reason I really like Nintendo.
Yep. Any console that goes all digital is not a console for me, I have a PC for non-physical titles
@@KevinsyelWhat sort of brain dead comment is that!? 😂
@@Kevinsyel So PC being all-digital is fine, but that doesn't apply to consoles?
But not all their games fit on the cartridge. That's why we need bigger cartridges
@@NuiYabuko I'm resigned to that reality. and if I have one system that does it, why do I need other systems?
The last time I went to Gamestop, I was banned for life by the GM AFTER buying a new switch game, and then going to take a picture of the colors of Joy-Cons they offered.
I was going to purchase a pair more preferable for my wife, and wanted her input. The GM was also the cashier, and he informed that I would be perma-banned if I did that. If I took a picture. I thought he was joking and snapped a picture anyways, while asking him if I would be banned for it. He said yes, so I returned the game I had just purchased and walked out. I bought it at the Walmart 500 ft away ten minutes later.
F*** Gamestop, they deserve to fail. Their anti-consumer policies are just incredibly absurd.
That's crazy. Why would you get banned for taking pictures of items that they're selling? (I could understand if you were taking a picture of an employee, but really.) I take pictures of items at the store all the time. If I see something that I want to remind myself to buy at a later time, I'll just snap a quick photo. I've never had a store employee tell me that I would be banned for doing that. lol
@@G360LIVE 100% agree. It made no sense to me either. I verified with the guy that he was actually the manager, and that he was serious, and he was. Now I’m banned, and don’t give af.
We really shouldn’t be excited for an all digital future, considering how they treat ownership.
The fact that Gamestop will sometimes send you an unsealed game when buying a NEW one online is probably also hurting their sales. Seriously, I've ordered a new game from them and when it arrived it wasn't even in its actual case, it was in a case that reminded me of the cases Blockbuster used to put VHS tapes in.
This is the exact reason I stopped ordering from them. They missed out on so much of my business because of this.
I miss the old GameStop... A place to hangout and midnight releases were AMAZING
I miss GameCrazy
See if you have any local small business game shops. The one near me is just like gamestop used to be and has midnight release parties.
@@slimjim2321 I have one near me, problem like a lot of those shops is the prices are outrageous for most of it comparing to just going on ebay and finding a deal.
@@savaget2058 HEY I used to work at gamecrazy! We were cool af
Me too
It's funny that Gamestop(US) is struggling & physical games aren't selling while EB Games(Australia) is thriving with physical sales of games on the rise. The stores in Australia may be 45% games over merch, but most Aussie's still buy games in stores.
Americans don‘t care about Australian and European markets
You guys don't get any digital discount. That's why
Amazon and ebay have cheaper physical copies of games. Just because some corporate store isn’t doing well doesn’t mean physical copies aren’t.
I can only assume the other places get better sales (or more frequent sales) than north american gamestops, I swear they never have sales, plus didnt they worsen their warranty for both normal buyers and club members? Feels like they put the stick in the bike spokes and cried digital when they stumbled.
@@VEN0M415 we have a joke in Australia about EB Games sales because is seems like there's one every month. We ask the staff during a sale, "So... when are you having a sale?"
People need to remember the value of physical media, can buy and sell used copies unlike digital, can always keep it instead of risk losing access to it due to server shut downs or saying a word they don't like
And it's not like Physical Media is taking away from Digital Only, but Digital Only is taking away from Physical Media.
I went to a Gamestop for the first time in a long time and i saw it turned into a funkopop (ugliest things ever) store with a video game section.
This. They need to replace that wall with retro games. Or at least something related to gaming
GameStop should had partnered up with a physical developer such as, LRG, STG and other physical game companies.
this
and also them sell a new game thats not sealed
Well they have a partnership with Best Buy for some physical releases…
They should do their own. They had their own magazine after all.
Missed out on so much even when they had a "monopoly" or the niche games
What killed GameStop for me was walking in and being bombarded with employees constantly asking and pressuring me to join their pro membership, buy a warranty, etc. etc.
The pro membership is worth it though
People have no idea what a Mid-Night release is like. Halo 2 Mid-Night release was amazing, Pizza, tournaments, prizes. 360/PS3 Gamestop was great, they even started getting into Retro. Then they F'ed up and waisteed their money on NFT's and failed.. R.I.P. Game Stop
Midnight. No hyphen.
You might as well have used The Onion as your source if your still reading kotaku.
And at least The Onion tend to be funny.
Kotaku is unregulated ineptitude.
😆😂🤣 👍👍
Jon isn't very good with reporting unless it's about a patent.
well, gamestop can always change their name to... funco land...
I understood that reference.
@@TheMetalGaia 😁
Funco land 😅 such a memorable place it was 😢 like Babbages of the mall when there was actual launch wait lines 😂
@@JRein721babbages funcoland and electronics boutique. RiP
The report came from Kotaku. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
hahaha seriously. Don't listen to activist websites.
Not to mention Kotaku has a personal vendetta against Nintendo because they got blacklisted.
I wouldn't expect him to comment on this subject even though he is being attacked by these types of people for being a white male
Facts, Kotaku is a fucking joke and an embarrassment
@@Elusive9T2RETRO stop being such a victim.
Giving people full time at Nintendo is probably not bad overall. This could also be a way to try and plug leaks at Nintendo maybe. Less likely to have a full time employee leak something, over a contractor who might be at end of contract.
I think the same. I doubt the leaks comes from actual Nintendo employees and most likely comes from contractors.
Nintendo is the least leaky when it comes to game leaks.
I doubt they are hiring a significant amount of full time employees…..
@@kahp1072the biggest leak that involved upcoming games rather than legacy info, the Smash 4 one, actually came from an ESRB employee, so it's very likely that Nintendo doesn't trust contractors or other companies
Restructuring contractors is not the same as layoffs, and given the previous reports about how they’ve been treated, restructuring is probably good
The restructuring could also increase the number of employees, full-time and contractors.
Not to forget that they are actually taking care of those contractors from the sound of it? We don't know the numbers, of course. But given the industry recently, it's very much unexpected. That said, yeah, they needed to do stuff about the treatment and everything else. I hope that the contractors that are let go find new jobs quickly and that this is an overall improvement over at NOA.
I know plenty of bussiness that make their hires sign as contractors when, for all intent and purposes, they handle workloads and responsibilities expected of full-time employees.
The employer can then tell them to stfu and gtfo without giving reasons or paying severance, even if those people worked for years for the company.
Not saying that's Nintendo's case, but loopholes like that are not uncommon nowadays.
I hope all you that read this have a awesome day and stay safe 💗
You as well.
I hate going into GameStop nowadays. Our local store had an awesome staff that were knowledgeable. Every visit felt like catching up with old friends. They ran those people out of town by refusing to compensate them close to competitively. Now the store is run by kids that don’t want to be there and barely know anything about the product, while trying to say all the things management wants them to say; ie buy pro membership and warranties. I was willing to pay a premium to shop somewhere with useful employees. No reason to shop at a place that no longer has a single edge over the electronics dept at Target or Walmart.
It’s better to have to track down a Walmart employee to open the game case than to go to GameStop and be told they only got enough copies of “insert major new release here” and you should’ve pre ordered.
I can't remember the last time I ever bought anything from a Gamestop, probably not since the Wii U era. Whenever I go to a mall I stop in at Gamestop but never find anything worth buying. Their used prices are too high and they lack games for older consoles which is primarily what I would be interested in.
Gen z kids are racing SO fast to not ever own anything for themselves, at the same time Microsoft is doing everything in their power for people to not even buy their console.
Sad indeed. I have a good mix of digital games mixed in that i've bought when they're really cheap (or monthly games), but any game I truly enjoy, I have a physical copy of.
These “gen z” kids are driving my bottom line.
As a physical collector, gamer and investor, if physical die and I am continually enriched because corporations like Microsoft succeed in the all digital front, then so be it.
If they don’t and physical somehow survives, I am good with that also.
One of many perks being a gamer and investor is it always feels like I can never lose. I am always in win-win situations.
@@cbgg1585in a future where we no longer own a physical copy of the game, we all lose ultimately. I commented elsewhere that today I saw a post and screenshot where EA had taken back the digital download of a game. No reason needed to be given and no refund. If that person had bought the physical they would not have been able to do that.
In the short term with an all digital future nothing will change as they want the complaints to die down, and dumb acceptance become the norm, but eventually you’ll see prices rise, more always online services, subscription and game pass rises etc.
I’m an investor and game player too. And as investor, my wallet will be fine, but as a consumer and gamer I, you and everyone else will lose in the long run. There’s no need to rush to digital and force it. A sizeable chunk of the international phsycal market is still physical.
Sony won’t change so long as they want to produce blue rays. The PS6 will be physical, at least. Nintendo will definitely be physical for a long time, thankfully. You don’t need to download the cartridge to your hard drive. Most Nintendo games don’t require huge patches and content after release. And the physical market for physicals in Japan, their home market, is very large still.
@@cbgg1585fake scam bot
If it wasn't for the older generation of PC players showing them the way they would still have disc and cartridges
Wait, so the white Series S revised to a black Series S, and the black Series X revised to a white Series X?..... Yin and Yang I guess 😅🤷🏿♂️.
If game stop offered more retro options I would be more inclined to go there. I make it a habit to stop at mom and pop video game stores to grab older games for collections and to check out any deals. If gamestop had the same feeling of going in and finding hidden gems and deals would make it a world of a difference.
I buy physical whenever possible, from Best Buy, Target, or Amazon (in that order). I choose in store pick up, if possible, but recently a few titles have been shipping only.
Don't want to be lawyer for billion dollar company but kotaku article seems to be nothing burger as of now. This is not a mass lay off. Since kotaku writers haven't worked on real job in their life they have no clue what is going on. Business as usual. They are just farming clicks.
Edit: read the news. All of them are saying there is massive lay off in Nintendo. But actually there is a restructuring and 120 employee impacted from this. According to noa significant number of them are being converted to full time employee. Some of them are going. There is no actual number.
I will never take game media seriously. They all are trash.
Some should write articles saying the conversion from contractor to full time employee with benefits is actually a GOOD thing for Nintendo’s side of the games industry. It’s the opposite of outsourcing if you think about it.
I definitely disagree with “We need to drive people to the game store so we need to focus on other things rather than games.”
One thing America doesn’t value at all in general is the EXPERIENCE.
Make GameStop an experience as soon as you walk in the door instead of it looking like an empty office building and game cases that look taty, an overload/terrible display setup on how they treat their merchandising, and taty sales display.
Walk into a Newbury Comics, granted the comics aren’t the focus for them anymore like that but you walk in there and it is displayed x10 better than gamestop, if you did a display layout exactly like Newbury Comics in regards to how they set up their vinyl ‘New Releases etc.’ Game Stop would really benefit from a better layout.
And one thing that bothers me (not just with gamestop) but retro game stores as well is the staff picks section, I love this concept, gets you engaged with the customer but so often I have seen the staff pick displays either on pieces of scrap paper and sticky notes.
Need to get more creative with it on a display level.
Never walked into a comic store and got hassled to buy a warranty, put a comic on reserve or join their membership.
Too much space wasted on Stinko Pops. Throw the useless plastic out, and get some real Nintendo/Sega/etc merch. And fill the stores with cheap Arcade 1Ups. There's a game store in my local mall that does this and I love going back, and it's full of people all the time.
@@cyxceven that sounds really cool. I would love if they had a few arcades. Though game stores dont exist at all anymore where i live.
I still prefer to buy physical. You know, old school NES kid, but also I don't want my games to be taken away as they did with the Stellar Blade demo. Also, I like the experience of looking around the store 😊
Yea i was salty about that demo. Downloaded before I went to work. Came home and saw I was locked out of it.
A videogames crash is absolutely coming and greedy corporations who spent irresponsibly are the harbingers
Kotaku is desperate for clicks. They'll say ANYTHING at this point
Thanks for the reminder! 👍🏻
I mean lay offs are lay offs lol
Most CZcamsrs too
@@Planag7 oh yeah.... Especially clickbaiters
So does this guy it's always a Nintendo thing and it's basically nothing worthy at all just guess work about Switch 2
With games being so bad day one,
I don’t normally buy games until months later when stock and prices might be lower,
and GameStop just doesn’t have what I want in stock.
Gamestop peak was when they had game stations to play the latest games and my local Gamestop allowed us to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards inside the store (it was a huge Gamestop) and also the midnight video games release parties this was around 2006
The thing with the US Justice department(not FTC) case against Apple is, it is predicated on the fact that it’s a monopoly in the high-end smartphone market. Neither Sony nor Nintendo have such dominant one sided market position, and we see that Sony’s strategy to claim Nintendo was in a different market failed in the courtroom, so I don’t think the PS store or eShop will be forced to open their ecosystems in US courts. Europe might do it though
10 years from now when everything is completely digital, I think everybody will finally realize how boring the world is and go back to physical
It’ll come back around and physical will be “retro”
You'll probably be dead anyway in 10 years. So it doesn't matter
Go back to physical? How when it's not available? Has PC gone back to physical 10 years later?
Not 10 years more like now but it's a slow take I'm doing it for my fave games in older systems
I don't think anyone has a PC physical collection. I think it's Nintendo only, since they're also a toy company.
meanwhile Sony open a physical media factory in Brazil to make physical copies of games.
Tell me you don't know anything about the new factory without telling me you know nothing about the new factory.
Sony is one of the owners of Blu-ray, so of course Sony wants to keep physical media around, since they make money from the license fees.
And I'm all for that. I buy all my movies on physical media.
@@jcdenton4110 ????
@@G360LIVE me too, hope they stick with it
FYI that account is a troll that lives in the Spawnwave comment section, best to block it or ignore it or not. There's a few around here, "something something im an investor and loaded you poors!" is another... you'll notice them after a while.
Contingent Labor (Contract Work) is a much bigger industry than you may think. 100’s of billions of revenue are generated each year. It is a worldwide industry and growing fast. Contingent workers that augment a full-time staff are a necessity (experts say at least 20% of workforce should be contingent) due to economic turbulence that can hit at any time. These workers will almost always be the first to go but the upside to being a contingent worker is you are generally paid more than full time counterparts.
I go to gamestop every time a game comes out. I prefer physical. There were 3 gamestops in my area. Unfortunately, they just shut down the store closest to my house in Newark, DE. (Suburban plaza). Now there's only 2. Fu*@ digital. They don't want us to own anything. People should fight back.
There used to be 5 in my city, but now there are none. We never had gamestop here though.
I went to GameStop on the launch of Dragon's Dogma 2 and they told me "we only got enough for pre-orders". I was baffled that I couldn't drive into a GAMEstop and buy a GAME on launch day... What are they even there for???
The gentleman behind the counter told me it was the same for Granblue Fantasy Relink, Kingdom Come Deliverance (Switch), and most other new releases this year...
I am rarely buying games at launch anymore let alone going to gamestop
I rarely buy any non Nintendo game nowadays.
I miss midnight launchs at stores. Halo 2 launch good times
When companies go to all digital I will go to all emulation and all pirating. I want to own my games physically. Not just a license to play them that ends when they decide to stop supporting that system. People need to stand up and make their voices heard
This. I would rather quit then buy digital games that you don't own. Physical media with the game on the cartridge and disk is important
If having multiple stores on consoles becomes a reality it's at least a step in the right direction for the inevitable all digital future. Now lets get some PROPER digital refund policies in place.
Including a longer window than just 2 hours.
@@pwcorgi2000 Have you seen what Sony and Nintendo offer? I'd take it over basically nothing.
Going into a GameStop today is like shopping at Men’s Warehouse for a suit. You know that the moment you walk in, you’re going to be bothered and someone is going to constantly try to upsell you.
Just wondering but how does one get upsold on a video game? That’s a pretty static item right?
@@Fluera You’ve never been through their process? “Want the 3 dollar warranty? You’ve let your pro membership expire. Let’s renew that for you today. Take a look at this list, these are preorders that we have available. You don’t want to preorder? These might not be available after launch, etc” It never ends and sometimes they get really ignorant with you.
I've had a white Dbrand skin on my Series X since I bought it years ago, so I already own this, but mine has a disc drive lol
How? If you were paying attention he said that they changed some of the internal components of the system. Slapping a skin on something doesn't change what it is🤦 Calling toilet paper bathroom tissue doesn't change the fact that it's for wiping your ass.
@@Cloud_Strife0811still the same system
@@Cloud_Strife0811right over your head buddy
@@thats_not_glue Keep telling yourself that bullshit🤣🤣
@@Cloud_Strife0811 *WHOOOOOSH*
No point buying a used game from GameStop when they want the same price as a new game from Walmart.
You have that backwards. Walmart never drops their prices. Not that physical games will be there in 2-3 years. I’m sure you’ve heard they’re phasing out physical games.
@@TheMilhouseExperience I don’t have that backwards at all. A new switch game at Walmart is generally$49.00 and they are $59.00 at GameStop.
If Sony or MS trickled out games into their subscription services as slowly as Nintendo does the internet would be ablaze.
Revision on a dead console? MS really blazing the trail now.
XBox is in third place. It's sales are flatlining in various regions. Their sales being mostly digital is NOT a metric for the industry lol. If Microsoft leave physical, I think Sony will take a bit longer (if ever.)
Video game industry is hurting themselves by going away from physical.
I mean, not really. Like yeah, it'd kill GameStop or Limited Run games if Sony, MS, and Nintendo went all-digital and got rid of a way to buy your games digitally, but it would only be a good thing for the big publishers cuz they'd make more money
Nah, if that was the case PC and Mobile gaming should be on red numbers right now.
I still shop at GameStop, but it is harder to find physical copies of games if you didn’t preorder
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I genuinely think one of these days a cyber attack, crash or out of control computer bug is going to take down several major clouds at once and its going to be absolute chaos and then theres going to be a scramble back to physical media but the damage is going to be done by that point and im not just talking about loseing your entire steam library we've become too reyliant on the convenience of the internet in my opinion
Yes. That's why I buy games from GOG and download the offline installers. If Steam goes down, I have lots of games from GOG to play. No problem.
Depending on how the contract is written, Nintendo, might be saving money by just hiring the contractors as full time Nintendo employees. They would also have more direct (ha) control over them and will probably have less turnover. I imagine game testing contractor may be a more turnover heavy job based on what they do.
A few years my local GameStop started selling a limited selection of retro games, and that was always fun to see. I bought cool games like Twilight Princess for GCN, and some N64 games. They have since stopped doing that, but I think that would make GameStop a lot more interesting if they started to have a retro focus for their stores. They also used to sell retro games on line a few years ago, and that was also cool - but last I checked, they had kind of moved away from that unfortunately.
The real bummer of physical games becoming harder to find is where do you get physical media without it getting damaged in transit? I recently had a transgression where I had to give up at getting a new game at used price. They tried to argue "does it work" and I countered that the case on the shelf was half the point of the purchase otherwise I'd download it for less.
The direction XBox is taking with their "next console" is only gonna make it that much more of a *hard sell* for gamers. At least, with Sony consoles and their upcoming "PS5 Pro", they are STILL offering the *option* for a detachable disc drive, so at least we won't have to worry about physical games fading until at least the PS6 (whenever that releases).
As long as they continue to offer game pass on PC, I could care less about the Xbox console.
I paused the video to make this comment so I'm not sure what all John had to say about the NOA restructuring, but my first thought is that Nintendo is doing this to stop the leaks. Every single large Switch game has leaked about a week prior to its official release. My guess is the Ninjas located the source of these leaks and are plugging the holes.
I personally prefer a disc option gaming system…cuz if you have the internet outage or something and you wanna watch a movie, you can just use your blu ray discs
No Developer or Publisher is talking to Kotaku. They are blacklisted for tanking game reviews.
Sounds like Nintendo wants to bring QA in-house to prevent leaks.
I haven't gone to Gamestop for a few years now. Not only are their trade value an absolute joke, but their employees don't even keep up on the industry and just try to sell you on whatever they have the most stock of. Bottom line is that Gamestop is dead.
GameStop SENDS PEOPLE USED GAMES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE NEW!!!! That is seriously a big problem.
Amazon does the same thing. I've ordered new movies from them that, when I received the movies, I could tell they were used and re-wrapped. Not to mention, the cases, especially on 4K movies, were worn down a bit on the edges, and I have no idea why.
@@G360LIVE don't even get me started on Amazon
Yeah that analysis of the gamestop issue isnt accurate, there are far more smaller digital only games than physical games available so of course we will see more digital sales vs physical but we tend to see many buy the physical games because its a smarter purchase.
There are plenty of physicals worth getting for the big three, gamestop just isnt competing with lower prices from other places, and if I remember correctly they worsened their warrenty even for members so pinning it on digital seems like theyre blaming a scape goat than admitting their blunders caused their blunders.
Once the disc drives are no longer in the consoles, I see no reason to buy one. PC is the way to go at that point.
Consoles will still has several practical benefits at least. Still..
But the the way things are going with more games requiring an extra login to external services for no valid reason, (hello Microsoft) there will be one less benefit eventually.
And in the unlikely event regulators manage to force multiple stores on them. Oh, well..
People always forget to mention that FREE games are clunted as "sales" on digital marketplaces. So every download of Fortnite, Apex, Genshin, etc counts as a "sale". Not to mention digital only releases... it's no wonder it seems like digital is outselling physical. Sony's leaked numbers show that for games that got a wide retail physical release, the nunbers are basically 50/50 on average (but vary significantly per title).
the monolith is too iconic to change
At this point, Gamestop could have just the store manager as the only personnel assigned to the store... and the outcome will be the same.
I saw a lot of headlines say Nintendo laid people off. Seems kind of like a misleading title when its contractors.
It's kinda not though. Given how they treat contractors.
@@lyianxTrue, but that’s more of an issue with how laws allow contract workers to be treated. That isn’t a Nintendo exclusive issue
They’ve been actually hiring more employees for the past couple of years and Nintendo, along with some other Japanese games companies, have actually raised wages.
The market is booming and their hardware as well as their software has been selling well so it makes sense, but it stands out in start contrast to other companies laying off employees in other counties.
@@lyianxno different to how folk are treated in the UK if you are private agency
@@XxZannexX You are correct, I was a contract tester at M$ Game Studios and they were sued for treating contractors the SAME. They ended up requiring contractors to take 100 days off a year to show they were different.
I honestly like to go into GameStop every so often now and just buy something. GameStop will always hold a special place in my heart growing up as a kid. Sad to see it be turned into the next Blockbuster.
I preordered Persona 3 Reload from GameStop. I go in on release day and I'm told they don't have it, that their truck hasn't come in yet and I should come back later that day. I did, and it wasn't on their truck either. They asked if I could wait until Monday at the earliest to pick it up. After that I don't think I'll ever set foot in a GameStop again
I went to GameStop to buy Xenoblade 3 on release and they told me I couldn't buy it unless I had preordered it. Maybe it was a new policy but it was very bizarre to hear a store tell me, "No, you can't buy this." for an item I wouldn't consider particularly in great demand (the store was empty btw). Definitely my last trip to GameStop.
If Xbox really does ditch built-in disc drives, then there's really no excuse for anyone to stay on console and not move to Windows. Used PC parts are so cheap now, even gpus and you can build a pc that rivals these consoles with $500 - $600. If you can't get a physical copy of the next Halo, Gears, Forza or Elder Scrolls, then what's the point? The physical versions of these games gave the console reason to exist.
No you literally can't build a PC that rivals these consoles. That is a lie
On PC there are multiple digital store fronts to buy games from, plus Steam sales are hard to resist
@@jcdenton4110 Not new parts of course but if you buy used and check local listings you can. It takes a little time and patience but you can absolutely build something like a 6700xt, ryzen 3600 build on a used b450m mobo and get that with everything else you need for around $600 on ebay or around $500 if you buy local used parts.
@@modermonkula And you don't have to pay to play online games, either. Then there's subscription services like Humble Bundle where you can get games every month and you get to keep them forever.
@@jcdenton4110Yup, these People constantly Spread lies about Consoles being Comparable to similarly priced PC parts. Maybe at the end of the Generation that will be true but midway and certainly at the start it never is.
Game stop needs to carry physical table top games eg. board games, Warhammer, d&d ect.
The US government also issued a "final rule" about contractors that took effect this month and probably a lot of companies are analyzing how to keep working or not working with their contractors to avoid being accused of misclassifying employees as contractors.
sounds like Nintendo was already keeping them separate, tbh contractors aren't expected to get same treatment as full-time employees because once the contract is over, they usually just move on
Yeah, altho technically unrelated, but it sure have been an issue with using contractors tooo heavily to rely as your core developers in your proprietary game engine and others critical aspects of your game. Which is why Halo Infinite issues happen for example.@@Yoshizuyuner
SO2 was the pinnacle of the series. No other entry has come close for me.
Same, it's why it was disappointing it skipped Xbox for me. Would have double dipped on it. As the series has gone downhill since and gave up on the series after 4 and Divine Force Demo failed to sell me on it.
How are you going to play backwards compatible games in your library if it's all digital? That's one of the appealing things about Xbox is you can play your old disc. If PlayStation announces they are sticking to a physical option while Xbox commits to digital only I'll definitely be switching it PlayStation permanently. And if they all go digital well I guess I'll just get out of gaming and move on.
I totally agree. The best part about Xbox is the great work they have done with backwards compatibility. If they stop supporting discs how would I play any of my old games? Xbox would be dead to me. Might as well just go PC. At least there are emulators there to play my old games.
Sorta. You don’t play the old disc. Or even copy the disc. You put the disc in and it pulls the game from the servers. That’s how back compat works on the series x and one x. But yes-if they remove the disc drive you won’t be able to use that disc to pull the download. You’ll have to own it digitally. The back compat on Xbox, while better than what Sony currently offers, is not a long term preservation solution
@@waliroen9922 funny there's no difference from using your discs for xbox 360 games on xbox one/series for it just downloads a digital version of that game to play emulated, in that case digital or not makes no difference. now xbox one games on series x on disc yeah those make a difference.
Yes exactly! I just played Read dead redemption on my series X and loved that feature!! If they both go only digital than I will stay with Nintendo and concentrate on pc gaming (which is already digital only but better prices) 😂
Also I’m a physical collector of movies and series, so i’ll buy a dedicated 4k player
Do you even know how that works? It never read older games. It pulled from the store and got a digital copy that can then be checked every day or so for authentication. If you think you're getting all the game on disc with PlayStation or Xbox. I have some bad news for you. Those days have long died out, even Switch sometimes doesn't have the full game
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Nintendo cutting some contractors, doesn’t necessarily mean quality would go down. Sometimes when you cut people things get more efficient. I used to run a company, and if I hired someone who didn’t mesh well with the position, it would slow down projects for everyone as soon as I would let them go things to get smoother and easier even though there were fewer people working.
That’s kotaku shit is the funniest shit ever… “Nintendo confirms with kotaku..” is basically Nintendo saying; “Yeah you remember how you complained that you didn’t get a free copy of our big game last time and had to buy/pirate a copy for yourselves just so you could write about it as it was the game getting tons of online internet traction last time… Yeah you’re going to have to keep buying/pirating for yourselves……”
Funny how they bit the hand that feeds them and then act as if it’s all Nintendo’s fault…
Skul is pretty fun
Is it like dead cells?
I love dead cells @@TonyTynebridge
@@monkeyball9223 yeh its good, combats great, i do miss hand crafted levels though like symphony of the night though
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One thing I don't understand is how in the world we see leaks of specs and pictures of consoles from Sony and Microsoft that are still months ahead from release but for Nintendo...for a console that supposedly is closed/defined and was set more or less for release this year we don't have nothing! No pics, no layouts...nothing! Nintendo ninjas are really hardcore man!
Nintendo also does a lot of inhouse testing in Japan, and leaks over there are not the same as leaks over here.
I went to gamestop and they told me they order 0 extra copies of new games it's all ordered on the website now if you don't pre order.
It's so bad that they are shifting that policy to their other products they had a shelf of pictures where they were pre-ordering action figures and I was told they don't intend to stock most of the products on that shelf it was for pre order only.
I don't know why consol makers don't just let consumers buy their own external drive for these consols. The drive does not need to have a specific speed you download the game to the consol anyway. Why not just let me buy my own disk drive if I want one?
Why would they let you buy anything if they can make you buy something instead?
Piracy. If it worked with any USB Blu-ray drive it wouldn't be able to verify that the disc is legitimate.
They could sell a disc drive peripheral though. Sony already does that for the new PS5 models.
Maybe Nintendo discovered their Leakers are some of these contractors and going forward they are restructuring to better secure games and hardware in the hands of possible leakers.
They probably wanted to get rid of a bunch of employees who have nothing to do with the lack of games coming out rn
Or, what you've been fed by people like these leakers is fake
I think that in the coming digital only landscape, it would be awesome if they would make an option to run an external disc drive and a service to order a physical copy of any games you want, and pay a premium for it obviously. Maybe save cost by eliminating nearly all of the packaging and branding so you just get a disc in a paper sleeve with basic block letters on the disc for the game title. That way the physical media doesn't gather dust on store shelves, and the companies would make a good profit on the one-off disc orders.
A couple of years ago there sales at GameStop still caught my eye, but than the quality and customer service was dropping like selling me “new games” at full price that had no case or damaged cases. Now I only go in during Christmas sales
Give me 10sec with photoshop and I can make those white Xbox images for you. Just sayin.
Here’s my 2 sense on what GameStop should do. They should partner with Sony and/or Meta to turn their stores into places for showing off VR. Get GT7 and a racing rig to show off. Turn GameStop into a VR arcade that also sells games. VR is one of the few things you need to experience to really understand and Sony could use some help marketing PSVR 2 imo. Imagine wanting to try PSVR 2 and finally having a place to go and try it out, and maybe even buy one!
so making it an arcade/lounge where ppl pay x amount per hour? what incentive would the brick and mortars have, let alone be able to keep the doors open after you get max saturation and reach about 20% of gamers that are interested? other that giving away vr sets to store to supports, cool idea, but so many places like this can’t make $$$
A problem with GameStop for me has been that they open at 10 AM. Walmart opens at 6. I can get physical media at Walmart early in the morning.
I used to be in "the going to Gamestop every week to 2 weeks" when I had a location in my city. But since the pandemic that location was closed and now there are only a few locations in Malls 30-45 mins away. I only go to them a few times a year now.
If people buy this all digital series X system, they have damn rocks in their heads!
How? And buying the Steam Deck or these portable PC’s are the better choice?
Wake up genius, the Steam Deck or Rog Ally ARE NOT physical compatible.
I really hope you don’t own any of these portable PC’s, because if you do, your comment is redundant. Heck, even physical PC games are basically dead asides from the odd indie title.
Rent, complete, move on 👍
Sorry but all digital future is coming sooner rather than later so embrace it or bye bye 👋.
Oh if you own a steam deck, PC etc like other comment mentioned then your being hypocritical
@@GameOverMan76Becuase Valve managed to delete the disc drive from PCs, it doesn't mean that, as a PC user, I like it. I have a big collection of PC physical since the 99s and it's useless now. Money on the trash can. Just nostalgia. Thanks Valve
@@GameOverMan76nah. I’ll never embrace digital only garbage. Be that PC or console. When physical is removed-it’s time to quit the hobby. At least with new stuff. Plenty of old stuff to play
I HIGHLY disagree with you about XB phasing put their Series X that takes discs. I say that because they just partnered with Limited Run Games to produce physical copies of HI Fi Rush, Grounded, and Pentiment. Why would they create that partnership if they are going to phase out of disc based systems? This is merely their way of dropping costs to entice people to possibly get in to the ecosystem. That's all it is and doesn't require wild speculation.
Says the Person NOT making money on a CZcams channel, this is a business first and foremost. You do what moves numbers, which is speculation, rumors, news and so on. Focus bro and worry about your household
@WillyBisfast @WillyBisfast @WillyBisfast He is making money by posting opinions on rumors and speculation. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 you think that because he makes his living talking in front of a camera, he is always correct? All I said is that I disagree. The hypocrisy and stupidity of a person, such as yourself, to criticize someone that is merely stating an opinion and telling them to "focus on their own household" is laughable and pathetic. I am not your bro and do not need any advice about my household from someone like you. Crawl back under your bridge son.
A Marvel Looter Shooter.... And the internet collectively groans.
The experience at game stop that made me stop going to their store was when I ordered a new copy of final fantasy on the DS and they sold me an open box copy claiming it was new and wouldn't discount. They were the only one with the game in stock so I still bought it but it just rubbed me the wrong way.
Kotaku has time to make articles of news while attacking gamers. They only have 7 writers left.
Kotaku will probably find Nintendo's restructurig as racist and sexist.
What worries me is all the retail jobs that are dependent on physical media. Its sad that we are just allowing this to happen
I went to GameStop last weekend and for the first time in over a year I actually found some decent used games in their original cases for cheap on the shelves. After finding games to buy for once I wandered through the rest of the store looking for other stuff. That's what gs needs to do, put games in their stores that people actually want, for decent prices, with original stuff if possible, to draw them in, and then they might sell some of the other crap on the shelves.
Physical media isn't going anywhere this is an upgraded version of the series s.
Be ready, next gen xbox will only be digital, ps6 also maybe. And after that gen it will be xcloud only for microsoft, who knows about sony.
Hope you're right and this isn't a series x replacement.
Well, with it being white, that makes a lot of sense actually.
It does look a lot smaller though, so wonder if it then is a X performance unit to replace S or just another form factor for S. But maybe just removing the drive can compact it a fair bit.