GAME woes

[DjchunKfunK]

Gamestop is an American company.

[Animalmother]

Gamestop is an American company.

Yes, and it has branches in Europe.

[Mantis]

Don't think they ever opened any stores in England, just in Ireland.

[DjchunKfunK]

Game are trying to blame the fact their financials this year will be substantially below what was expected, on the lack of Switch stock.

[Achtung Englander]

so lame

firstly - Nintendo - so hello - limited stock - hello ?
secondly - blaming poor profits on just one piece of kit when the market has 3 successful consoles (XBOs, PS4s and PS4 pro) is just poor showing
three - people have wise up to the fact GAME is just bad value for money

I don't know, some element of me feels genuinely sorry for them but you know if they are selling 2nd hand games at almost full price for brand new, something is really fucked up there

[Wrathbone]

The thing that makes me have little sympathy for GAME is that their online offering is almost as lacklustre as their highstreet shops. There's the occasional deal worth looking at but generally the prices are just as over-inflated. For a company that recognised the gaming market was moving off the highstreet, it seems plain daft that their reaction wasn't to try and make GAME's online shop the first port of call for UK gamers. I can only think that it would have required a major pricing disparity with their highstreet shops, which they were reluctant to abandon.

[DjchunKfunK]

Yeah it's tough to run an online store and a traditional retail one. You can't exactly massively undercut your own stores as then you end up damaging your business. HMV had the same problem.

[Achtung Englander]

HMV problem was that their cost of good was running at 97%. Morons.

[Mantis]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... nk-of-game

Sports Direct buys 25% of GAME.

This can only end well.

[Achtung Englander]

yeah good luck with that shit. Cannot help but think there is an ulterior motive here - like he wants the stores for his sports goods

This was Gamesindustry
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... -want-game

[DjchunKfunK]

yeah good luck with that shit. Cannot help but think there is an ulterior motive here - like he wants the stores for his sports goods

This was Gamesindustry
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... -want-game

I'm not sure I buy the store footprint angle, Game stores are generally quite small and not suited to Sports Directs 'pile em high' philosophy.