GameStop Knows New AAA Games Don't Sell...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- Even GameStop knows there's not much of a future in new AAA video game releases, and they're pivoting back to retro game consoles like many players. This isn't a ringing endorsement of the state of the video game industry right now.
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Devs want gamers to accept not owning the games, so they best accept gamers not buying their products.
Ahhh Ubisoft "gamers better get used to not owning games"
Me not owning a single Ubisoft game in years. "Feels great"
Publishers. It's not the devs, the devs are just paid to follow instructions.
Blame the fucking publishers, they're the ones pulling this shit to nickel and dime the gamers.
@@lunasakara7306 that's not very ESG of you, heretic
I hate that. As an example GTA V worked fine on Win 7 for many years, then an update happened and it stopped working.
I thought it was because I had used a pirated copy.
Then I bought the game and it didn't work because the launcher were updated to not run on Win 7..
It is my fault if I buy a game without reading the specifications like I failed to do in 2021 with Total War: Rome Remastered - it also didn't run on my Windows 7 but at least the game stated it wouldn't in the minimum requirements..
With GTA V it stated it would run on Win 7, and it did run on Win 7 for many years - then all of a sudden they withdraw support...
That's different and should be illegal.
I did pay full prize for a Win 7 PC game and then they update it so that it won't run on said Windows..
It's as if you buy a Nintendo 64 game and they would update it to not run on the Nintendo 64...
@@jollyterror8834 We live in an age where devs are as to blame as the publishers. Especially with how often Devs do this WILLINGLY, then hide behind the publisher, like cowards.
Retro Games: Games that had passion, great gameplay and didn't ship broken.
Modern AAA: Overpriced, broken, filled with DEI with ugly characters.
Great business to sell them
to be honest, my new stance is the game must come with modding tools so that shit can always be taken out completely.
but then again, i do hope these companies go broke, no actually i hope they go bankrupt and have to sell and they never come into the business ever again.
like if Ubisoft actually goes bankrupt and they try to make another company, i would boycott them before they make any game, because i do not trust them, i do not trust who they hire or what they prioritize on, they deserve bankruptcy forever and never return to the industry of making or selling games.
@@5226-p1e
Good take. Modding FTW.
The video "If Video Game Companies Made Jigsaw Puzzles" nails this to a tee!
Don't forget the always online requirements so when the company gets tired of paying server costs you lose access to that game forever.
its also the drama. kids today literally see grown adults having meldowns over triple aaa and dont want to be part of that.
It's not that AAA games don't sell. It's DEI games that don't sell which is the majority of AAA games right now.
Exactly! People do play AAA games, like DDLV and Hogwarts Legacy. They just don't play *bad* AAA games (which is what most of them have been lately.)
Wrong. Even before dei, modern gaming has been fn boring, bland and forgettable, for a entire decade. You're maybe too young to even notice.
Yes. Imagine all the rejects from highschool banding together to take over a market, well thats what happened to video gaming. One weirdo got a job, then got there weirdo friend, then that friend a weirdo friend got hired, etc.
Yeah, good, agenda free games with appealing characters and even passable stories sell like gangbusters.
@@extremepop324 FNAF, Undertale, Cuphead, Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, Don't Starve, Bendy & the Ink Machine, Night in the Woods, Celeste, Untitled Goose Game, OMORI, and Poppy Playtime have entered the chat.
Gamestop coming in sounding like a shadey guy in an alley like, "Hey kid, you wanna own your games?"
And people think we the pirate one lol.
well, the shady guy in the dark alley is more trustworthy than the giant publishers are
Hey Stranger.
Nice user icon.
For the same reason an increasing number of them are discovering older shows, movies, & music- it's all better than what's coming out today!
Yep, all the shit now has liberal agenda splashed all over it.
This is actually concerning to me. Our creativity as a nation is in the toilet.
It's not the nation, its globally. Well, less so from China oddly enough although a lot of it IS propaganda. @antoniojames9493
@@antoniojames9493how many more pop tart flavors can they come out with?
@@antoniojames9493: On the other hand, the younger generation discovering older movies, shows, and music could be inspired to make those. Though I agree that modern entertainment sucks.
I think we need to “skip” a generation of game makers. Get back to the ones who don’t care about social commentary.
A number of them before had commentary, they just understood how to use the devices of the medium PROPERLY.
Mirror's Edge is a really strong dig at Authoritarian society but a fun game is packed in with it. The Parkour element is seamless in it and I mean the original, NOT the remake. They RUINED the remake by introducing loading screens with the running. The running should NEVER have been impacted by loading, even if the game looked SLIGHTLY worse since it was the CORE of the gameplay.
And ones who know something about optimization.
Ive skipped like 3 generations of gamed
Hear hear!
Social commentary is awesome, social propaganda is not. Plus, so many of them are completely ignoring good game design to fit in as much of their propaganda as possible, then still asking $70 for their crappy games. They deserve to keep losing money if they keep doing that.
You know why they aren't selling? Because we have to shell out $70 for game devs to give us an unfinished, unpolished game, with character designs that are ugly, stories that are preachy and unfun. It can turn around if they just reject SBI and DEI. Nintendo is still putting out good products, but they arent considered AAA.
Says who? Nintendo is still considered AAA. Just because the Switch is outdated as all hell that does not mean they are anything less than AAA.
AAA basically just means the overall scale of the game. Not just graphical power. Tears of the Kingdom is indeed a AAA game because of the size, budget, and overall scale of the game, despite being on a console with lacking hardware aspects
No one mentions Nintendo when they talk about AAA games, as a Nintendo fan it always irks me, but they seriously dont. They also overlook TotK or BotW and tTYD or Splatoon, Smash, etc. They only ever talk about third parties
@@kyotanaka920 Under Ubisoft's definition, Nintendo isn't AAA. It really depends who you ask, since the term "AAA" isn't well defined.
I love how Nintendo is the longest-standing and most successful video game company ever, yet they aren't considered AAA by the Western market for some reason.
And not only are the new games trash, they censor stuff in re-makes/re-releases when they don't have too.
That true. Reasons why I don't get new games and get exticed for anything new.
It's pretty sad I have more desire to mod old games like Skyrim than play 95% of new games.
To this day, I'm STILL finding new stuff in Skyrim.
Apparently, you can do the RotLA trick on certain pressure plates.
Fr. I just discovered the total conversion mod of Enderal for Skyrim and it was great. Modding Skyrim is like playing a new game every time.
They snuck in some update on Oldrim a few days ago, apparently for the launcher, but you know, it might not stop there.
I still have a hard copy of the latest built LE, I'm not disappointed.
Looks like kids are done with bad games, as well as having all of the actually fun gameplay being locked behind mountains of microtransactions.
When liberals snuck into entertainment, the rest was history.
Activists
Enough live service, more platformers
It only took them years!
The irony that gamestop knows of all places 😂
They learned the fasted because they had to eat Ls for years
Actually considering they are probably watching their numbers like a hawk versus Wal-Mart, Amazon and others given this is their main product stack I would say "Not really.".
......ironic to a painful level. But hey if they pull up from doing this can't argue with results really, right?
Well, they went from a hedgefund scapegoat company to something that now HAS to last until some numbers get fumbled around. So, we're back to competent leadership.
I still have my N64 and Dreamcast from 1999! Powerstone! Soul caliber! Super Smash Bro, Mario Cart, Perfect Dark.
No need for internet. No patch. Just press power and play!
I can't wait to get a PS2 again. Back when games weren't half assed.
That's nice, but you're very far away. Can't play with you unless it's online =\
Yep, back when consoles were actually consoles... its why I just said fuck it during last gen and went 100% gaming pc and havent looked back, havent regretted it one bit, saved thousands of dollars not dealing with a monopoly over the years, my pc always performs better than consoles, faster, and more customization ect ect. I do miss REAL consoles like the dreamcast and ps2 though, but those days are dead ya. It's not the same but at least I can emulate everything with ease!
Sadly, I had to sell all my retro games. I needed the money.
Dreamcast turned 25 yesterday
"AAA games don't sell"
No. Bad AAA games don't sell. Good ones do, look at Wukong
Fact
can wukong be considered AAA? it's the first game of a brand new studio, that's AA
The more A's attached to a game, the more ass it will be.
@@NewsofPE Its generally considered to be china's first real AAA game. It has the graphics and scope to be considered AAA too.
@@scyris99 Did it cost as much money to make as your average Ubishit game? If not it isn't AAA!
Funco Land became Game Stop. Game Stop has become Funco Land. The circle of crap is complete.
I liked when they were Funco Land much better. I remember going into Funco Land as a teen and being able to pick any used game from the shelf and try it out on one of the kiosks before deciding if I wanted to buy it. When they became Game Stop they only put in demo discs for preselected games, many of which I had no interest in buying.
If gamestop of all places knows their shit doesn't sell- then it sounds like game devs need to unfuck their shit fast or be out of a job.
The phrasing of your comment made me laugh really hard and I do agree.
Retro games > AAA DEI Slop
A shame that they discarded so many Gameboy advance cartridges, there's a limited supply of old games thanks to the wasteful destruction of those cartridges
I can totally see GameStop or the games sections at local bookstores throwing away used cartridges. All they had to do was preserve them, but people are funny like that. Some things are like wine or baseball cards or precious metals. It might take a few decades for the price to go back up, but the price will go back up due to rarity or demand.
So, what happened with the "Flopbuster" movies of 2023 is now happening in Video Games.
all of this can be traced back to someone shooting a gorrilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo....... smh
@@bryana.escaleralopezdicks out
If they keep on making games like The Last of Us 2 and Suicide Squad KTJL, the gaming industry isn't going to make any scratch. Even GameStop is understanding this.
The Last of Us is the best game I've ever played. I didn't take a second glance at TLOS 2.
I thank God for the Hero Leaker, without whose work I could've been lured into getting that abominable TLOU2. Instead I got Ghost of Tsushima and never looked back.
Back in my day, if we expected products to sell, we made sure people wanted them in the first place.
I went to GameStop yesterday to snag a Xbox controller for my pc. *This guy walked in there asking for the SNES Battletoads game!!!!!* No joke. 😂😂😂
Remember when those younger gamers told us we where old out of touch gamers when we spoke out about horse armour?
Retro games always for the win!
Custards revenge
maybe, youtuber camelot331 talks about how games stop tried this once before and they failed because all it takes is someone would bring in a bootleg game and slap a sticker over the real game only to trade it in and then the store selling the same product, meaning you never get the game you purchased because they are willing to trade in bootleg games that are not official.
just look up the youtuber camelot331 and watch his latest video about the retro gaming at game stop, he used to work there, he knows all of game stops scams.
How old is retro? Like, what timeframe passes before it's retro?
@@christophermonteith2774 fricken ps2 is retro now
And then we saw Square censoring characters for the dragon quest remaster or whatever. Just because of the "mOderN AuDieNce" or something. Not only is it disrespectful & disgusting to censor women,
They didn't just remove male and female from the character selection, they also censored the troll's lips. In every single Dragon Quest game up to now, trolls have had large exaggerated pink lips. But in the HD-2D remake, they've made the lips less pronounced and the same color as the rest of troll. It's probably because they think it might be considered "blackface." When Akira Toriyama passed, there were a lot of people on Twitter screaming about how he was racist because of Mr Popo's design in DBZ. So now Square is retroactively altering Toriyama's artwork.
@@samvimes9510And those people are uncultured a-holes. They slandered Toriyama, not realizing the last thing you wanna do is get on the nerves of Dragon Ball fans. And considering the Dragon Ball fanbase is a diverse one, you can't slander his name, claiming it's only for white people and the Japanese. It shows how bigoted the people slandering him truly are.
I was a bit interested in that since DQ is one of those long running JRPG series I’ve never gotten into. Then I heard they were removing male/female character options… And Bandai Namco is going all in on ESG, so I’m not interested in Tales either.
YS series it is then
@@newdivide9882 Thankfully the Ys series seems to e niece enough to escape the sauron's eye of both the political correctness activists and the ignorant publishers. Its the only jrpg series I was able to get into since it's not turn-cringe combat.
I knew some people who ran a small game store near my house. This was like 20 years ago. But they told me they didn't make any money on new games. New games are just on sale so you come in and possibly buy a used game.
I can confirm this. Modern games cost stores about 50 per copy. You can buy used games for under 10 in most cases. Then, resell for about 45-50 if it's a newer game. Older games tend to cost below 5 and you can still resell used for over 20 or 30. Some DS and 3DS Nintendo games can still be sold fairly close to their retail price. The margins end up being better per used game.
"I'm 50, live in Stockholm, Sweden. I have a relationship with a 31-year-old, and I got the best present. There's a bar near where I live, a classic video arcade bar with flippers and arcade machines. I've never had so much fun in my life. Retro games are the way to go.
P.S. I work as an environment artist making 3d models, textures, and shaders for modern games, but going back to the roots and my childhood just made me realize how much I missed that era. We literally spent 3 hours playing Gauntlet 2.
I'm 22 and my boyfriend 62 years old. But? He not much into video games. But? I love retro games growing up. Not all but some. Wasn't much until my high school days i got more into them and discover different ones. Even classics as well. And movies and shows,etc. Also? I love Sweden culture as well as others. much? Is Norse mythology also swrdish to. I feel rude adking. But i always wondered. I'm big fan of different things. But? I'm glad was born around ps2 and Xbox 360 era. When games had different unique styles and old movies and new things played side by side and I was acting like chachters from old and new. And I'm va mailroom clerk and not much how i saw in games and stuff. But fun. New yorker well Syracuse new york i live. But? I miss playing arcade machines. Some I played but not much. But? My boyfriend i ask. If he ever wants play aracde machine. We did played only one. It was alien: Armageddon after we watch a movie. We lost. But finally got to play the game. But? I always love to show what I grow up on.
@@insectwarriorjojo7780"Boyfriend" lol
@@coolbrotherf127 , yeah. My boyfriend 62.
inb4 "I'm 10 and my partner is 70"
That game... I remember playing the first Gauntlet on the Nintendo console.
Game Stop employee told me they buy games based on the amount of pre orders and dont buy in huge amounts in case it bombs and people ask for returns. Example fall out 76.
I almost bought Fallout 76 at launch. What saved me was that Spyro released the day before.
I remember seeing a video of a guy wanting to return Fallout 76 to GameStop, because it was so bad. The GameStop employees said no, and the guy ended up destroying the store.
Retro games are where it's at. I know I've enjoyed playing Pac Man and the OG SF games. Also, the Uncharted trilogy is still great to play even now imo.
Mario Rabbid Kingdoms...
X-com clone at its finest.
Metal slug tactics is another great xcom influenced game.
This is the same fallacy as Hollywood arguing "Folks just don't go to the movies anymore!" People play AAA games. They just don't play *bad* AAA games.
You will also note you don't see many foreign options either as an alternative.
To be fair, foreign movies don't really have the same region free options compared to games.
@@suroguner I meant in theaters.
On the movie side there's the other Hal of the equation. No one wants to pay the ruinous prices to go to the movies. Seriously. 5-7 bucks for a cheap bottle of water. Don't even get me started on the rest of it
The manager of the GameStop I frequent had a laugh at Concord’s expense.
I mean other than the woke people coping and seetheing everyone else who was normal knew Concord was going to fail, I mean when your completly free open beta barely hits 2000 on steam your know your game is screwed. The Black Myth Wukong BENCHMARK had a highest concurrent player number of 85000, and thats just a damn benchmark app, its not even a game. They try to say steam doesn't matter, but steam prob has more global reach than any other platform for games honestly. If the steam numbers are bad, the console numbers are most likely not good either.
I'm 63. I started gaming BEFORE the Atari 2600. You are not old. Those old games may have been simple and primitive, but they weren't humorless-scolds full of hate.
I'm also 63, and I played the original coin-op version of Pong in front of my local mall's movie theater. That was my earliest exposure to video gaming, and I was hooked. I spent many quarters on games like Starvox, Boscovian, Gorf, and a very old game called Bandido (I think they misspelled Bandito, but that was the name). I remember those days fondly. Then coin-op arcades dried up, and consoles dominated the gaming scene, with their overly complex controls and rules. I drifted away from games, and concentrated on real life. It was fun while it lasted.
The good ones still sell
but now they are going back and "modernizing" all the retro games too. i hate this timeline.
I fucking hope they don't mess with them. My mom grow up on games came out. I'm trying save up get marvel vs capcom collection on the ps4 on physical disc. But I am teying get old classic consles for me and my mom. Slowly.
archive, archive! sites come and go but files are tiny for today's standards!
Ignore those “modern” remakes too lol
In the 90s I went to The Game Zone which was my local game store. And a few months back I was drive in that area and discovered it was still there after all these years. I went in but didn’t feel any nostalgia because the store was redone and looked nothing like it did when I was a kid.
There's a racing game that was released this year (Le Mans Ultimate) which uses a physics engine that's bones date back to 1984 and was designed by a single person, one Geoff Crammond.
This physics model was so advanced for its time that once he started building on it through five more games it eventually turned into one of the most beloved F1 racing sim's of all time: Grand Prix 4.
I did not expect Gamestop to survive by using nostalgia. Just because the current game companies keep doing these bad practices. Honestly thought it was gonna go out like Blockbuster did. If Gamestop started supporting Indie devs, that would be something.
A partnership with Limited Run Games or a similar company could be a good idea if that's what they want to do.
They are selling games from limited run now.
@@suroguner With most big game company leaving out the physical media. Limited run is their best friend right now
I thought for a little while they did have exclusive or first run releases.
GameStop made a point that AAA games don't sell due to Concord incident.
These people learn the wrong lessons
Playing older video games.
Watching older movies and tv shows.
Reading older comics.
Listening to older music.
This should tell modern entertainment across the board. This isn’t just a nostalgia or retro bandwagon jumping thing. This is “modern shit is terrible” thing.
I just want there to be more original stuff and not just constant remakes/sequels/reboots.
That’s my problem with modern entertainment, they don’t allow originality! They’re afraid to take risks.
@@Cubeytheawesome Indeed. Once companies become public or a studio or IP is owned by a corporation, shareholders are involved. They’re usually risk averse and only hope “Brand X’s” name alone will make their stock valuable. But the very thing they won’t do, big swings like Snow White (1939), Toy Story, Star Wars (1977) or Lord Of The Rings, isn’t making their stock valuable. They NEED to take that leap of faith in order to survive and not lean hard on brand recognition. Perhaps if they actually consumed what they’re hedging their bets on, they’d know what is real wrong.
@@fishjones4618 yeah, they’re even trying to make franchises that didn’t do well (sausage party) or are hardly relevant (borderlands) big hits.
Who wanted that?
@@Cubeytheawesome I’d hardly call those big swings. More like bunts down to centerfield.
It’s not a AAA problem. A bunch of kids play free to play games, they will also pirate old games. This is just a GameStop problem. How does GameStop sell BlackMyth Wu Kong? As they can’t.
These shops are dead here in the uk.
Obviously it's a problem for the studios who are losing millions of dollars in revenue from their poorly selling trust fund activist woke garbage.
You can sit around all day long claiming it's not an AAA problem, but I doubt that excuse will go down too well at the next Disney/Ubisoft shareholders meeting.
You'll get laughed out of the room if you uttered that nonsense. When it comes to results, the only thing that matters if the bottom line, and there is NOTHING you can say to justify how poorly these companies are doing right now. NOTHING.
You can try, but that would make you part of the problem. And I were investor, I'd have you slung out of the room for being disrespectful and insulting mine, and everyone else in the room, intelligence.
It's arrogance like yours that IS the problem.
Oh yes Gamestop, the same destroyer of said games. Remember they literally used to gut those same games they now want to sell as retro games, complete and in tact now to. Same company....very very strange to see the destroyer of videogame stock in the past now want to embrace said stock.
"Get used to the idea of not owning games"
Nah, I think I'll just go back go cartridges and discs, where I DO own them.
GameStop has on three other occasions took in retro games. And they stopped. Camelot331 went over this.
Yeah. Sell your old games for literally pennies and then turning around and selling it for the higher end of retail cost.
I will sell my collection when I’m old or dead. Same thing with my pew pew collection. And I do keep spreadsheets of how much everything is worth.
been building up my physical game collection for a bit now. its actually jarring to be able to simply put a disc in and instantly get to play. no internet/downloading, no EULAs (that matter), no bloat. just fun games.
Same here. But? Some games I have on some old classic consles we don't have anymore. Sadly.
I remember Electronics Boutique very well. I was a store manager from late 1993-97. We always dressed "business casual" since PC productivity/business software was still a big thing. I was fortunate to have a handful of workers who really knew their stuff regarding Windows software, etc. At then end of my time there, my store went from 1/4 console games to 1/2. SNES and Sega Genesis were the top dogs. PlayStation One (PS1) was new, 3DO, Sega Dreamcast; and Atari's attempt at a gaming console, the Jaguar. Microsoft had their own four-foot section in the store that they paid for. Only Windows/Microsoft products could be displayed there. Lots and lots of PC games (floppy disk and CD). We always did very good business especially the holidays. Overall, a great experience for a much different time.
It's true, kids are getting into classic games. My nephews even have the NES Classic Edition mini, and love almost any retro system or any pixel or low polygon game.
When AAA blew up it was the survivors of a AA scene that had learned the lessons of former competirors during transition time of 2D -> 3D and revival after the first collapse. I think the next AAA studios will be the AA's the succeed during this transition, whereas most of the AAA studios will not adapt.
Just drop woke and politics.
It’s just that BAD games don’t sell but unfortunately way too many new games are bad
We need GEEKY SPARKLES!
Nah
This has been known for at least a decade. The ballooning of budgets were not sustainable. This is just the confirmation and the correction will follow.
If it wasn't woke, it would had worked out
@@yunusgokcen174not entirely. Excessive budget or production can kill even the greatest of products
@@christophermonteith2774 if your game looks unappealing, it will not sell. Excess budget is not a bad thing
I'm 63, still gaming. Got a 360, ps2, ps4, original x-box, psp, DS, 3DS and a gaming computer filled with emulators. Last new game I bought was Red Dead 2. Not much interest in new games. Although Black Myth WuKong has my attention. Probably wait till the price comes down a little.
Veteran games always fun. Espically I used have some systems. Still do. But? Not much as were back then. But? Im 22 years old and mostly play with what i got and try find old and rately keep a eye out for new games. But wukong? One of my favorite warriors orochi series chachters and chinese mythology chachters. Also I have hots for. Cough cough aside. I'm mostly okay with the games i got. But? I play classic resident evil games on ps4. Some are play before ps4. But? Can't no longer play those versions. Due to systems. Not taking good care of them to.
Went to a GameStop today to get some Pokemon cards and I looked for Concord. I couldn’t find it and ended up asking and the dude just laughed.
GME is doing what Comic shops do. New games (comics) bring people in the door, but everything else in the store actually pays the bills. If memory serves (after all costs) GME made less than $5 on a $60 game. That's why they wanted you to buy warranties and accessories and toys and bring games to trade.
Most game stores make their money off the used stuff. However most of them also rip you off when you sell to them. Never sell ANYTHING to EB games/gamestop your being massivly ripped off. as that game they offer you 25 cents for? yeah they gonna sell it for like 30-40. Best used game store I know was back when I lived in toronto, ont. He paid pretty fair for used stuff.
that doesn't sound so great
I myself am tackling the massive backlog of my Steam and gog library.
I could honestly go bare minimum, a decade plus a few years without buying a new game.
My steam library grows with great indies, yet I'm playing retro backlog. I don't need to "hold out" until DEI DIEs, this is fine as it is.
Steam booted me out with their new OS requirements. My library - gone. The money spent on that library - gone.
Moral of the story: Always - always - always - buy a hard copy of your games. Do NOT depend on "the cloud", or your games may end up "gone with the wind", like my Steam games. My dream: Visit Japan, and buy every console and cartridge I can find - even C64, Atari, and Colecovision.
It's not just the activism. It's these megacorps, for all their money, churn out BROKEN and UNFINISHED games and ask you to pay $70+ for it. They would then keep asking you to pay more for DLCs and season passes. In any other industry this would have consequences for the company. But not the video game industry where it's been normalized.
I think a big part of it is that people do not realize that getting a high-end gaming computer is not that cheap at all, so when these companies are using high-end advanced graphics, they are limiting who can and cannot play their game in the first place.
With the way, the economy is, it is not prudent to drop thousands of dollars on a gaming computer when you can simply download a free game like League of Legends or Guild Wars 2 for MMORPG players.
On top of all of this, it is hard to keep up with the ever-advancing tech changes. It’s no surprise to me that games like League of Legends are old yet still very active
It’s been said often enough that DEI kills creativity. We’re seeing examples of this right here.
Back in my day, you didn't buy a floppy disk, or CD, or DVD, you bought a book. You typed in the gamecode by hand, then tested the game for errors. Once everything worked okay, you saved the game to casette tape. (I owned a Tandy Color Computer. The deluxe model with 16K of memory.)
I feel the "old enough to have what I want, but no time to play" sentiment Kneon. I get maybe 1-2 hrs a week and that's if I decide to loose some sleep 😅 But my boys have plenty of games they love and enjoy telling me about them and that's how I interact with gaming the most these days.
My local Gamestop locations only had enough physical copies of Concord for preorders. That was very interesting news to me (I called them up and asked if they had any physical copies in stock, and they said that they only got enough to cover pre-orders). This could be a naive Sony trying to phase out physical releases, or it could be Sony realizing what might be about to happen. It's just so weird that Gamestop wouldn't stock a game that was supposed to be so huge. Very interesting.
They order games based off pre orders. Probably didn’t get much pre orders for that shitty ass game
I mean, any normal person could see Concord was going to fail from miles away, even from the first trailer they could tell.
One of the best sellers on the Nintendo eshop right now is the new castlevania collection....retro sells
I saw the woke video game plague coming and brought 6 PS3's and 4 X BOX 1's so I could play my vast collection of vintage video games without woke non-sense. Most AAA Video games today are woke garbage. I knew video games would get turned to crap when they started heavily censoring original Looney Tunes cartoons I grew up on. I have a vast library of vintage PS3, XBox 360 and X BOX 1 video games, uncensored DVD shows and movies. I have old sexpot movies like Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy. They even censor Mr. Magoo. I have old World War 2 era Buggs Bunny \ Daffy Duck \ Popeye Propaganda Cartoons that are impossible to find today. The west today is more censored than China and the old USSR!
Playing Star Wars The Old Republic while watching lol. They updated for 64 bit compatibility a while back.
I do some charity work for my local videogame museum.
There is such a thing?
Mario hasn't been influenced by politics? What the hellz was that ending to Super Mario Odyssey then? Mario basically wasted his time and energy for nothing in that outing...that is not a satisfying ending for anyone.
Friendzoned again.
It's a kids game, mario doesn't need to marry peach, besides it would hinder the possibility for an oddysee sequel
Should also note Mario is already taken by Pauline (who's also been coming back)
Well Mario and Bowser were fighting over Peach. If Bowser knew how to take no as an answer Mario would already be king of the Mushroom Kingdom.
You say that as if princess peach being kidnapped by Bowser was such a unique plot device. I don't blame peach for wanting a break from all of it.
GameStop should really focus a lot on their non game merchandise, I've bought so many cute things from them like a koopa shell light and a tom nook baseball cap
Yup, I have enough games to last me a lifetime and a half. I'm kind of glad the industry is collapsing. I'll be able to retire happy.
Our local game stores focuses on old school games, consoles, they also sell used toys, action figures, trading cards, books, vinyl and more they are basically a pawn shop for nerds
If gaming companies would stop making “live service” games full of bullshit micro transactions, stop with the DEI bullshit and focus on good story, graphics, and gameplay mechanics they would not run into this problem.
How do we know this?
1. Ghosts of Tsushima. 2. Rise of the Ronin. 3. Black Myth Wukong.
Yeah. These stupid studios are doing it to themselves.
I’d also throw in Astro Bot, because that game is beautiful. It’s proof that 3D Platformers aren’t out of style.
I remember getting the free Spider-Man 2 movie t-shirt with the GameCube copy of the game at Electronics Boutique in 2004, and it is still the best Spider-Man game ever made in my opinion!
I've got my Dragon Warrior (Quest) 3 for my GBC from my childhood. I'm going to play that over the remake from square because of the changes
I've been playing some of my PS2 games in an emulator, since my console is gradually breaking down by time itself. A few games got a little buggy, but I'm glad I was able to get the necessities to preserve them soon enough.
Everyone laughs at me for keeping all my systems and games. I've been keeping everything. Yes takes up a lot of room. But I can play all my favorite games with out stupid "modern" audience.
I kept all my old systems from the original PS1
At the price GameStop charges for used stuff, I'll take the risk of buying from eBay.
I work with a GEN-Z guy....I am 51 years old. He knows all my music from the 80's and 90s rock. He hates the new music....He asked me for a list of good movies to watch from that era, I gave him a huge list. Things weren't censored and boring like they are now. I still play older games....
Activision, not activism.
I still play old games from time to time. Its just nice to play a game that was actually complete at time of purchase. No patches or DLC required lol
I am so glad I began collecting old games as far back as 2002. Back then you could get an NES and a box of 30 good games for $20. Just glad I picked up most of my Sega Saturn stuff back then. The prices went nuts on that thing.
Had I found a second for desktop gaming, first game I would play again would be Age of Empires.
ooh, yea that's a good idea
That's wrong because Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom sold a ton. We don't want DEI/BRIDGE garbage.
Let’s not forget, Astro bot is walking proof 3d Platformers are still awesome.
I do miss game stores... they shut down gamestop in sweden and now gamestores are rare. Major cities may have a gaming/nerd store. But if you go to a smaller city you are mostly out of luck. When Gamestop was around you could find at least 1 in most cities.
@8:47 - So much truth!!!
"Now that I have everything, I have no time to play." Even the EU/JP version of the SNES b/c I always liked that style better. Satiator, ODEs, ROM carts. The future is now old man.
I have loads of retro systems. I have my original Atari 2600 and Sega Master System and Genesis. I have also reacquired multiple Colecovision consoles and almost all of the Coleco tabletop games from 1981.
Considering how many modern games don't have physical releases, GameStop needs to push retro gaming to try to survive.
Modern games don't have a toxic community issue, they have a toxic development issue. They believe they are entitled to success because they "worked hard" on it.
Last year, all of the Gamestops in my country shut down, and it wasn't instant; literally everything in the store, from the games to the shelves to the screens were being sold, everything was 10% and that went up by 10% with every week that passed, like the were desperate to make sure they had literally nothing left when they finally closed.
From what I hear, this is only in my country because literally no one else is saying that Gamestop is gone.
Conversely, there are now loads of second hand game shops around, but they all have huge marked up prices. Pokémon X is 70 euro, and the later Pokémon games are cheaper, while the older games are more expensive.
This isn’t the first time that GameStop has tried this. I’ve already seen repro and fake games at my GameStop Retro locations so they still have a lot to learn.
Education about these retro games and the proper tools are needed to check them. GameStop needs to do better for all of us gamers.
I stopped on PS3 gaming industry started the microtransaction DLC nonsense where had to buy game then spend more money regularly threw my hands in air. Learned how to emulate now have everything from 2600 PS3 Xbox 360 at finger tips. I will never complete majority of games and no desire for newer systems.
When the Genesis first came out, I recall that new games were coming out every month. When I purchased my Genesis, Altered Beast was packaged with the console. Some of the earlier games I bought around that time were Space Harrier II, Super Hang On, Thunder Force II, Super Thunder Blade, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Mystic Defender, The Revenge of Shinobi, & Zoom. The only game I recall taking a long time to get was Phantasy Star II and I had to order it from B&H Photo because the local stores didn't have it in stock. That was my first JRPG.
My son and his friends just played through Space Marine 2 and loved it. It's not that modern games aren't popular. It's just that most of them are terrible.
It's like LJN in the 1980's but with Politics on top.
It is like every new AAA game, or god forbid "quadruple A" game is an equivalent of Waterworld.
Remember that movie? Basically a symbol of overcosted, overbudget movie that threw money in the wrong directions and in practice had no way of paying for itself.
I love the idea of the younger generations playing retro consoles & games, and I just opened two Switch games bought last Christmas to play them. Long live owning your games.
"this game isn't for you"
"ok"
*sales flop > taken down
"are you happy? it's all your fault"
"tf i do?"
I'll just share with you what me and a couple of the customers at GameStop all gathered together the share: most of the new AAA games feel odd, fake, and have this weird sterile kind of feel to it. Feels like a manufactured good with ' bland/ safe' feel with no love put into it. Versus the retro games which have a lot of love, care and replay value.😂❤
Define "sterile". Is it just something that isn't your cup of tea?
@dogg-paws
I think it's that it just feels bland and boring. Like they don't want to take any risks, so they stick with something they're familiar with and repeat it over and over again.
@@dogg-paws foxboy summed it up perfectly.
@@LowellLucasJr. Can either of you elaborate further? Give examples if necessary.
@@dogg-paws
*Miles Morales Spiderman. Great visuals, great ideas, execution: weak. Less unique gameplay features and feels like a safer version of previous PS5 Spiderman games with too much comfort & familiarity than rarely taking chances.
*Ghosts of tsushima should've gotten game of the year for its unique gameplay over The Last of Us 2...Which is getting a remaster😑 same safe bland gameplay. There's more examples out there but those come to mind quickly. Hell, even Mortal Kombat 1, despite the great Lore and DLC, has lost a lot of interest in favor of Capcom's Fighting game collections; which are all retro titles vs this AAA title with all the bells and whistles .
There's a great retro game store in Albuquerque, NM called Gamers Anonymous, which looks and feels like how Gamestop once was back in their early days. Wall of old magazines from the 90s-2000s you can browse and buy. They buy, sell, and fix old consoles, and they have a game room in the back that feels like you stepped back in time to the late 80s. That store needs more attention imo.
The reason we're all going back to retro games is that the new AAA games are made in California for California activists! No one else wants their politics shoved into our games!!
Black Myth Wukong has sold almost 18 million copies in less than a month. Monster Hunter World sold 25 million copies, and I guarantee MH:Wilds will pull similar numbers. Warhammer 40K: Space Marines 2 has sold over 2 million copies, and that was officially released TODAY.
When AAA studios make games for actual gamers, and not the mythical "modern audience", gamers buy them.
The main distinction of triple a titles is that they're expensive, heavily advertised, and disappointing.
if they start reprinting old games and selling clone hardware they can make a mint just sell uncensored old games and fund accurate translations for games we never got.
Companies got way too comfortable with making bigger and bigger profit instead of holding a profit margin and keeping customers and workers in a good mood.
The new owners of Atari really seem to be trying to make a name for the company again. I'd like Atari to buy GameStop out, fire off all the incompetent and outright evil management and stop making everybody hate GameStop. No more sneaking $2 each on my bill for "insurance" onto each game I buy because corporate demands they scam customers.
I have a massive backlog of games - Just on the PS3 and PS4, I have almost a thousand games I haven't played yet. I have a strong collecting instinct but a weaker drive to play them, and if I come across any difficulty in the first minutes of playing a game I'll quit it because there's so many others I can play and it's not worth the time and effort to "git good" if it's not compelling me to stick with it.