GAME Stores To Discontinue Selling New Physical Games?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
- As recently reported by GFinity , GAME are looking to end the sale of Physical video games in part of a slimming down, and restructure of the retailer.
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I wish we could reverse all this and go back to high street stores like Blockbuster and Game with physical copy's of games/blu rays etc. Im 41 now and i miss the good old days going down to Blockbuster on a weekend and choosing a game and a film to rent, then picking up the takeaway food on the way home. Before Blockbuster as a kid we had local video rental stores at the local shops where you could rent VHS/DVD and games consoles etc. It feels almost too easy now to just download/stream something, i feel we have lost some of that special excitement feeling that came with having to actually go out and see/meet people at the store and also browsing the shelves for a good game to get.
Fact. 😢
Jesus Christ mate everything you said is American and I bet you’re English too aye? It’s a symptom of bathing in yank culture
Here in the netherlands I did the same, only in local movie rental stores. I used to go out and rent movies with my dad, and also with friends and pick up food on the way back. I feel the same with buying games, for me there's no fun in sitting on the couch, press a button, and then you "own" a game that's somewhere in a void where you can't reach it. That's why I almost only buy physical. For me convenience isn't everything, I like going to a store or flee market or whatever to find games. Like you said, there's no excitement anymore when things go all digital.
Same man was picking up games every weekend when I was a kid until blockbuster up the road from me went bust, sad times!
The problem with digital copy's is that over time they will get deleted from digital stores and you can't redownload on to newer consoles
It's all about money, the tycoons don't care about the consumer or their consumer rights just ripping everyone off big time.
Online has destroyed everything we held dear. We are being controlled by phones and online.
And both of those have literally become our whole lives as well. I am in my computer and phone almost all the time and almost the whole day!
I used to work at game when I was younger. I was in the uk for the first time in 15 years last year so I went to find my old game store as my friend still worked there. I couldn’t believe what it had become. Full of toys and crap. So sad to see what they did to it.
I'm not a fan of how everything is digital now , it has its advantages but I miss the days of trading games in , that's why I've still got a load of physical consoles and games all the way back to the megadrive
Trading in 6 games to get 1 new one always hurt a little though!
@@GametechUKI remember in the 90’s old version of game , would let you buy a game and take it back in 30 days and get refund if not happy and I used to do it all the time for N64 games.
Although, after a while, they changed it to store credit only.
I’ve got ps3 packed away with about 25 games and about 40 ps4/5 games and I’m tempted to put them all on eBay.
I won’t get lots but I might as well get rid of I’m not going to play them.
Trading games in was always a rip off. I miss the days of a swap. I used to go to this wee local shop, pay a fiver and swap your games
@gunsharck yeh that's what I mean, that's what the one near me used to do.. it was sometimes a tenner to swap an older game for a brand new one.
CeX stores probably the only ones who still does that now
I still buy everything physical and mostly secondhand. The only times I buy digital is when it is a very cheap game I don't care much about. I feel when going all digital, that there is something missing, the gaming experience is not complete when I can't actually hold the game I bought. Even when a new game releases, I can buy it cheaper physical a week later.
And selling games is always nice. I like going to a store and just browse through everything they have.
Here in the netherlands we have CEX, gamemania and NedGame (next to secondhand online trading). I have seen GAME abroad, but it felt a lot like GameMania, games next to boardgames, collectibles and merchandise.
I think once you have the physical library you want to keep it going as much as possible.
This is why I still order ps1 and ps2 games off ebay, I love getting them in the post , the manuals etc etc , it's weird but there's something about it lol
Totally understand that mate.
Tell you what bothers me is when a retail has a MASSIVE patch. I installed LA Noire last night on my switch and despite being a cart it’s STILL 13gb!! I’ve got over 500 switch games (mostly retail) and I just don’t have the room on my 512 card. It’s games like Noire, Doom, Mortal kombat. They all take up enormous amounts
These are Sad times we live in. We lost electronics boutique, gamestation, tower records, woolsworth, hmv, virgin megastores, blockbuster, and gamefocus... nothing like going into a store and browsing through the different shelves to find something new.
I prefer physical games being an older person and nostalgia of lurking thinking what I shall buy, once they shut down the Vast majority of stores to me the gig was up
I can't remember the last time I went into a GAME store to buy anything. Here in Swindon GAME left the high street years ago anyway.
Mike Ashley is relegating Game to a few shelves up the back of his Sports Direct stores anyway. How does anyone think that's going to end well?
@@bigbabatunde1218 my biggest critique of this was for most gamers they tend to be quite reclusive/socially awkward and the last place they would go is somewhere like sports direct. the amount of game staff members who Ive talked to who believe the same and that its cost them massively in sales as its easier and often more enjoyable to just purchase off amazon for people like this these days.
It’s sad that physical items are dying out plus u can get physical copies of games so cheap after they’ve been out for a while, but digital copies are charged at full price even older titles and it’s wrong and disgusting. The only good thing about digital games is u don’t have to wait anymore to get a copy of a game, unlike back in the day when a big game would sell out everywhere and u would have to wait to buy or rent it. Now u can just preorder and as soon as the games released it starts downloading straight away
The days of queuing up outside Game for a midnight launch, good times!! It’s unfortunate but I don’t see where the business fits in the market anymore? Although a small portion of people still prefer physical copies, digital purchases have become the standard for the majority of gamers…
A sign of the times i suppose.
And HMV midnight releases! I still have a recorded video on my old hard drive of either a GTA4 or halo odst midnight release I went with my friend. Its just a short clip to show the length of the queue. Good times. 😢
Digital is not the standard stop lying digital is for lazy people that don’t like to own their stuff and like to waste double the money just to play a game at midnight
We still have a, Game store in Stevenage. How it's still hanging on is beyond me. It's always quiet and everything is so much more pri ey than anywhere else. Used to be a cracking place 15 - 20 years ago but now it's just full of late 30 early 40 year olds like myself looking to rekindle them childhood memories of going in and buying the latest game but now I'm old I find paying 50+ quid for a game too steep. I'll go to CEX as there is always a pre owned version of the game a week or so after release at least a tenner cheaper.
I loved GAME ever since it was Electronic Boutique
Loved electronic boutique.
You must be having a bubble here??? EB were horrid!!! GAME were great but after EB bought them they went downhill
Used to work for the heinous company and seeing it implode, makes me personally happy. I heard about the pre-owned going away and said they are now officially dead. This makes them 100% dead.
I've been buying my games at CEX for years now and they aren't without their problems, but I've personally had a better experience over the years.
I worked for them until 2007, I was always told preowned was the lifeblood of the business as thats what made the margin. Doubt selling plush toys and tat is gonna see em through!
Gamestation was the best community experience. I became a 'local' to some of the managers/staff and would chat to them about games often. They even held tournaments. I won a mario kart double dash tourny one time and got given a fifa 05 store disc. My 1st fifa, to which i became hooked on. Id always trade in to them as they offered a £1 more than GAME and would be flexible when u bought a console bundle
YES!!! Exactly this mate aye. I remember when Metroid came out for the DS, the whole shop was packed with us all doing multiplayer
Man I miss gamestation
What's sad is I remember back many years ago I bought a game from walmart. It was a physical case and everything, but when I opened it, instead of a disc there was a sticker with the download code on it in it's place. If I remember right, I think it was Spintires.
That is a kick in the teeth!
unfortunetly its the sad truth the masses would rather pay £££ for digital games they don't really own instead of ££ for physical copies, the whole industry has picked up on this and are now starting to force the true gamers hands :(
I remember the days when I had my ps2 and I completed a new game I got for Xmas or birthday and I would go into game or games tatian and trade it in and come out with 3 or 5 games. We had an amazing game shop in norwich in the late 90s and 00s. Almost every Saturday the queue would be round the shop and out the door and the midnight releases were amazing made so many new friends while waiting in line to pick up a new game, especially cod modern warfare 2 for ps3 that was a special time to be a gamer.
It's so sad to think that game is going to stop selling physical games. You can't beat the feeling of walking into a game shop and looking through the preowned section and getting 3 games for like £30 or in gamestation 5 games for £20.
The good old days.
By Christ aye!!! I LOVED rooting the GBA games in my gamestation. Then game bought them and gutted them. I was just as depressed about that as I was STV stopping showing Cybernet
The problem is a physical game is never complete nowadays anyway. It still needs a huge patch downloading to get it to work. Gone are the days of the PS and PS2 where the final version of the game was on the disc you bought.
We've been conned, it is all to save the companies time, money and effort. PS1 games sometimes had 2 or 3 discs to get all the content on there. They could easily put it all on 2 discs for the physical of that particular game.
Nintendo is another example they will take a 32 GB game and stick half of it on a 16 GB cart and we have to download the other half instead of just using a 32 GB cart.
when i was a kid in the snes and ps1 days borrowing games i loved it. midnight open game releases. playing games with your friends in person. but i dont miss getting up to change the game.
This was only a matter of time. They killed trade ins earlier in the year and thier stores have largely started to sell a bunch of merch and toys. A large customer base would use game for the trade ins, without that they buy online
I haven’t been to game for years. I know they had stopped doing trade ins but didn’t know they were stopping the reward scheme or now stopping selling physical media. When I’ve gone past the store the past few years I just see loads of vinyl pops and other tatt.
I think I’ll just stick with getting games from Amazon, Argos, and Nintendo.
I miss the amazing independent game stores we used to have near me, and the awesome game station. Such a shame that Game ruined them all and now look like they are going.
Apparently this is false news, "This reporting is categorically not true," a GAME spokesperson told Eurogamer today. "GAME continues to support the physical gaming market, offering a wide-range of physical games, hardware, software, accessories and digital gift cards, in stores and online." although it wouldn't shock me
They can support it all they want, psychical media has always been a thorn in the side of devs. Preowned out the equation its just a matter of time now. Think about it, they don’t need a retailer making money off the back of their hard work they can just beam it straight in to peoples living rooms at a premium. I saw what was going go happen a long time ago and I can’t believe HOF were so short sighted in this respect. Shame really. I worked for Game from 2004-2007 good old days.
You selected your empty box took it to the till for someone to shuffle through drawers and cupboards to try and find the CD or cartridge
And then try to sell you some scratch protection scheme!
I used to love going to this store in my town, back in the late 90's. I remember buying my Dreamcast on launch at that store. Those were the days. 😔😢
I love a physical game. I remember going to the midnight launches of GTA V all the way back in 2013 for the 360 and then in 2018 for Red Dead Redemption 2. But i do have to say in recent years the magic of game has vanished for me as it feel more like a merch store for game related things rather than a store for games like it used to be. Side note HMV has also become more of a merch store than a music and DVD/Blu-Ray store.
Supermarkets often sell games for up £15-10 cheaper then Game, using the lost leader, predatory pricing tactics, so this is what’s ultimately destroyed Game. Then you get the likes of Amazon, eBay selling the same game cheaper. Game just cannot compete. Also, because there are not has many Game stores anymore you’re more likely to buy from Smyths, Argos or even curry’s.
Whether we like it or not we have to accept that an all digital future is almost upon us. I remember the switch from VHS to CDs and had zero issues with that, even going from songs on CD to Spotify etc just didn’t bother me that much. I do understand people like to collect games to physically show them off but you’re really just showing off the box, not the disc. What I don’t like is digital games costing more than physical games, it makes zero sense as it should be the opposite way around.
Switching from VHS to CD???? How does that work? Don’t you mean DVD???
Same as you Jason, the buzz of going there at midnight to pick up a brand new football manager game etc.
I remember when it was called electronic boutique.. back in the day. I’ve made many friends in the game shop over the years not to mention I’ve worked 13 years for Ubisoft as a level designer so I was always involved with gaming and games with the game shop plus I used to have a TH-cam channel called game labs reboot. Which was sponsored by the game back in the day… happy memories
honestly as a collector of games there is often times that I pop in to view any games not on my radar. I very often pick them up. without having a decent game retailer on the highstreet means I will definitely spend less on games so its a bonus for my wallet but a massive negative for the games industry. I can see a future where a lot of indy games dont make it due to them not having advertising on shelving space. as for the way gaming is going with it being digital only. it will only take a big recession for the big 2 consoles to limit their online presence as they have to afford the upcosts of hosting and people will cut back and therefore I think there will come a time when we see a lot of digital purchases go missing with no recourse.
I stopped going into Game a few years back when that and the Sport Direct store which were both practically next to eachother anyway closed and merged in a new one further down the high street. When I say merged I mean the Game section was crammed up in the very back corner upstairs and was mainly toys and collectibles with only a few shelves of actual games. Never thought I would see the day where Argos had a better selection of gaming stuff you could buy in store than Game. CEX is pretty much the go to place these days though which is sad that there are so few choices now though because even when buying used media I like to be able to check the condition of the stuff and not hope something I buy online is sold in good condition.
I feel like the only people that buy games from GAME are the clueless parents, “oh they play games don’t they? Lets buy them something from here”
lol so true..whilst at the till...'let's get some of these racing grannies for them too'!
What a load of cr*p. I buy games in my local store for myself. Sony and Microsoft are behind the move to go digital only so that they can get 💯 % of the profit from them. But the cost of the games to buy on their marketplace are consistently far more than the games cost in the stores that still sell them. Once Sony and Microsoft have the market to themselves we will all pay more for them and cannot go anywhere else for them.
Maybe where you live is different, but where I live this is truth, it went from one big GAME store to a small section at the back of Sports Direct in House of Frazers. Just because your local GAME store may still be a good place to go and buy games, doesn’t mean everywhere else is the same 👍
Game was always overpriced even for their pre owned games 🎮
@@saiyansean but the prices of games on the PSN and Microsoft Marketplace are consistently higher. Considering you only get a digital download and no disk no box and no packaging then to charge more will become the norm if we are restricted to digital downloads. Bad for competition and bad for the market. It’s called a monopoly and does nothing but remove our choice.
As I live more in Asia and Middle East the physical game market is still going strong
When Game killed Gamestation, trying to save itself was when things really started going downhill.
I still feel that should never have been allowed.
I can't help but feel the demise of Game is somewhat justice or Karma.
My local game currently is a small section in a Sports Direct.
I miss Gamestation more than Game, but I used to be friendly with managers at both stores.
To the point they would give me promo tees or give me a call when short staffed to temp if I was free.
It's so sad to see how gaming has become. In my area, there used to be Game, Gamestation, and a couple of independents.
Now it's basically CEX.
We had a game store in Norwich but it closed ages ago.
Since I moved to a small town area in the UK, I have had to go digital because I didn't want to give up my USA accounts and such. I stopped buying consoles at PS4 and am saving up for PC so that I can burn games to disks to preserve them in some physical form.
one of my finest memories as a child is going into a computer game shop and studying the massive glossy boxes of games that i dreamed to one day be able to afford. love you Jason. legend
I have the same memories. I can even remember the smells! Box art for games was such an important part of the process back then.
A lot of games nowadays are digital only. If a digital only game gets delisted, it's gone forever.
Game station was always my go to shop for physical copies then it was swallowed up by game. It’s a shame really…
Any time I go to a game store, its a 25/75 (buy/not-buy) if I'm exiting with a game. This is for retro and gamestop. You can find better deals online for expensive games.
I used to love going into game and browsing for anything that took my fancy, but the store in my town closed two or three years ago, now i just buy digital copies and in some ways its easier. i have around 180 game discs all in cases just sat on a shelf. so buying digital certainly saves some space, just not as much fun though. great vids as always mate
I'm the same with my DVD collection. It's all in the loft gathering dust, now we just stream digitally.
My spare room is full of dvds n blurays close to 5500 now n my loft is full of consoles n boxes n boxes of games for them all every thing from megedrives 1 n 2 all PlayStations fat n slims atari Wii ganecubes Saturn's game gears n many more
All digital is reality.
The strongest business model of Cex or Game was trade in/exchange. They took £5-10 cut on it, sometimes more in case of brand new releases. The issue is that for £7 ish you can have a PS+ Extra or Game Pass for a month, with all the game selection.
So trading in older games, or buying them physical, makes no practical sense.
On to p you have companies wanting to cash out and more and more games do not have physical releases at all, and often those which have, are only drm launcher on CD.
End of an era.
I feel that the only the reason their were physical copies of PS5/Switch games is because the game stores refused to sell the consoles unless they did. Will this trend continue or will PS6/Switch 2 decide they don't need game stores? I personally thing they'd be stupid if they did. I also feel that the recent trend of removing digital movies that you've already paid for is a warning that this could happen to digital games.
Most game outlets have been relegated to becoming pop up stores within sports direct that’s like a maze to find the store .
However for CEX they offer very little money for trade in and market value the price higher for resale .
It was like I went into a charity store and picked up Avengers Infinity War on Blu Ray for 99p by adding 1p for double the difference and came upto £1.00 and in another you can get 10 for that price.
my son works in the doncaster game store ive warned him to get another job because its going under
Thats a shame. Does he enjoy working there?
Yeah he's obsessed with gaming like me lol
they wont stop selling new games this year
They're not going under. If you look at the share price of the parent company (FTSE: FRAS.L), they're doing well. They're just in the midst of a transformation into being more of a general entertainment store, which is evident by the increased amount of toys and other entertainment-related merchandise. Because relying too heavily on triple-A releases that mostly occur during Q4 is not sustainable, so of course GAME has to diversify to allow for year-round sales or face a certain death. Not to mention that preowneds are clogging up the stores, which is why they're sunsetting that category. However, they still remain committed to physical games sales, so they have no plans to end sales this year.
Game is owed by Sports Direct so the store could be lifted and shifted into the nearest Sports Direct one.
It would really suck if GameStop stopped selling physical games
I've just checked about game not selling physical games I watched I video where someone was speaking to the person that owns game and they are not stopping selling physical copies of games just thought I would let you know Jason
I don’t see the point of keeping it called Game in the highstreet if they will no longer stock new or preowned games.
Haven't brought a game from them in years coz they've been a toy shop for couple of years now. Over priced . When game in late 90s and early 00s they were excellent along with electronic boutique
At 2:00
GAME era 1992-2019
Fact: in June 2019 games became no longer for gamers but more customer consumers.
Game has become a toy shop now. Are they expecting a big run on customer demand for Sonic and Yoshi plushies?
Physical games went downhill from the moment the video game publisher's stopped with the detailed handbook or even the game map being included in the video game packaging. I was excited to read about GTA III on the bus ride home and couldn't wait to put the disc in and play it. Now the packaging is boring and the game disc has to be installed onto the ssd before it's even playable. But the nail in the coffin for physical media is how long you had to wait if pre-ordered games, sometimes you get it early but most times it arrives 1 or 2 days late in the post. Even game stores reserve games on the shelves for those who've pre-ordered. So if you was an impulse buyer like most gamer's are, you was outta luck come release day. That is why digital sales have shot up because it's readily available and the most convenient way to buy games.
Yeah i agree. I still have some really older physical copy games, with maps, booklets and badges.
Don’t forget the scumbag zoomers that don’t care for retail
Gamestation was much better, especially when they stocked retro for an insanely cheap price. I have so many boxed N64 games that I bought from there.
Best memory of Game, was Gears of War 3 midnight release and they gave everyone who turned up 800 reward points.
I buy occasionally digital but prefer disc I like a physical copy and like someone said in the comments they can shut these digital stores and take it away from you but physical they can’t
I don't understand why people speak £50 on a digital game, buy can usually get the same game as a physical copy for £10 or £15 less. On top of that, you can then sell it if you want to, and have some of the money back. You can't do this will digital.
I go to mobile games exchange in derby at least i can trade my games in & preorder new games at 1 day early, GAME is now a Sinking ship!
Buying the GameCube on launch day with a terrible hangover. Well worth it though. Done the GTA 5 midnight launch. Unfortunately game has been dead for years. Never like to see a shop close but it's finished and there are better alternatives.
It’s a shame Game had very poor prices for trading CeX almost gave you twice as much for items
Best times were midnight launches. Like gta and destiny most of the earlier cods ..It's always good laugh everyone in the que giving great banter ..also got to know staff and aways helpful..
Stoped shopping at game they don’t offer free delivery anymore they charge £4.99 and the prices of games are too high.
I remember watching people playing BattleToads and Double Dragons on the arcade machine as a kid back in the early 90's. Fun times, but very difficult to beat just a stage! The Nintendo console with Mario/Duck Hunt edition as the first of my gaming life. I haven't really played games the last couple of years now & in my 40ish of age. I've seem to be interested in something now these days... (Maybe dream of going to space and find new home on different planet like Mars to live there.) LOL
GAME was hit and miss, often games on shelves were not sealed, cases scuffed discs marked and these were the new ones. Prices usually higher than buying the same physical game from an online retailer but seem to be closer these days.
This is not true someone has the wrong end of the stick and now this rumour has gotten out of hand
I always found GAME were overpriced for both their new and preowned items and stickered all the manuals (preowned) and tried to upsale you on stuff you didnt want at the tills. The only time i liked them was when they did 3x for or 2x for offers and GAME exclusive items like Steelbooks or other bits. Most of the shop was just full of screaming kids with dirty fingers all over the gaming keyboards, controllers and blocking the aisles and shelves.
Trade in stores are trash anyway - 10 copies of the same game... They must be money Laundering as they are not selling games.
I still use my game store, I use it for the sales. It has changed and gone ‘down hill’ imo to diversify and try to remain relevant. The last few choices as you mentioned in the video baffle me, however like someone already said in the comments apparently it’s not true. I think it will be the case for the next gen of consoles as I see it being all digital, but for now I see them still selling until they don’t have a product to sell.
Hello the thing that most bothers me is the growing number of games being delisted. So you buy the game but you don’t actually seem to own it.
I buy my games on Amazon mostly so I can’t remember the last time I bought a physical game from game!
That's not a good sign that BIG retail stores (such as Gamestop, GAME, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy for a example) is treating physical games like garbage by discontinuing physical games!🥶
I missed those days when games sold as physical box products, not digital service code.
God, I hope Nintendo doesn't reject physical games in the future, and I hope that the next-gen Nintendo console isn't the last physical system.
That's my three fears about the next-gen Nintendo console, Denuvo/DRM crap, lack of backwards compatibility, and digital only console.
Other than that, I hope indie game developers, AA game studios, and independent retail stores (such as PlayAsia, Book-Off, Press Play, and Meccha Japan for a example) will save physical media of video games, because indie game developers, AA game studios, and independent retail stores cares about you and listen to you.
I always liked game every time I was in the area I always pop in said hi to the staff and and maybe a cheeky game but now the old style of buying a physical copy of gone so sad😢
Yeah, always a good place to have a browse to get you in the mood for gaming.
I have a friend who works there still and has for many years. They said they are just waiting for them to close now so they can get a large redundancy payout lol.
Mike Ashley is going to pay redundancy payouts to non union backed, zero hour staff is he? Don't bet on it.
@@bigbabatunde1218 apparently Mike Ashley owns it by name but it’s his son in law that’s the main overseer.
@@Maverick87-1 Ashley getting family members to be fronts make it sound all the more iffy. That's what criminals do. When businesses are struggling with money woes, Mike Ashley is always waiting there to buy them all up and keep them going no problem? That would spark an investigation in any other country.
I used to go to GAME. I used to hate the idea of digital. I never ever thought I’d be into it. But just recently I threw hundreds of old discs into a skip, and I do all my purchase on PS store. And honestly I’m fine with it. I bought a PS5 with a drive but next time I’d get the digital one. I get that some people like to have physical boxes as decorations and some don’t like to use online payments. Some can’t let go of nostalgia. But to me this is just a better way of doing it and I find places like GAME redundant. I don’t even go in to look as if I’m interested in what games are out I just check my phone.
We buy our new physical disks from ebay and amazon as GAME was too expensive for us . Loved looking at the gamebooks in store.
Using the boiling frog myth to let staff go and shutter the stores.
My brother is the store manager at the staines branch and not a single thing that has been said here is true the only thing you can't do is trade in games and consoles the reward system is still in place because that's how the staff get their discount and they won't change the way the system works they have only just changed the till systems from old windows to the new sports direct till system
Seems like many of them are closing down. My “local” GAME is closing.
The decision to ditch trade-ins ,preowned games and the loyalty programs,will only force people to buy all their games digitally, and not give them any business ,call it a boycott if you want .
You damn right I will boycott GAME now, they put me on the Elite program to get 10% instead of the 1% and now they shutting that down on July 31st, screw Fraser Group. The reason apparently for the phased out trade-ins and pre-owned games was that pre-owned games aren't profitable, so how does CEX flaming exist then? Pfft, absolutely tone deaf from the Fraser Group honestly
I worked there in its peak era, 10 day returns, midnight launches oh and the manipulation of trade in prices to get us a bargain😂. Its not exactly unexpected I was saying this ages ago. They’ll go bang soon.
The 10 day return process always seemed crazy to me.
@@GametechUKThere was only a handful who took the piss and you just told em no eventually.
This Series X, PS5, & Switch generation will be my last consoles, if they go totally digital next generation! I've been collecting consoles & video games for 45 years! #TeamPhysical
Dont miss game for physical releases always been to expensive ,,when compare new releases on amazon and other online outlets are just way cheaper
Hello old friend (cmdr Richard Feynman here)! Game retailers have been in the toilet forever and since highspeed internet became universal the consoles can now just do digital downloads and subscription services like what platforms like Steam have been doing forever. Physical media is dying in all forms btw this new paradigm doesn't stop at gaming; books, dvds etc have all been crushed by the new digital paradigm. The movie theater industry will be the next to go since they have barely been hanging on since the pandemic and it looks like people would rather stream at home then go out anymore.
Hi just came across your channel and enjoyed the video and I’m a Xbox player and pretty gutted I totally agree with what you said done subscribed 👍
I remember as kid when me, cousins and mates would swap games and borrow games. GAME is in some weird places, one time I went to Sports Direct and I saw GAME, I was so baffled by that.
In Reading town centre game is in Sports Direct really weird why this has happened
It's owned by the same parent company.
Browsing in store holds a lot of nostalgia for me, but from a buyer’s point of view I’ve been 100% digital since halfway through the PS3 days. So many early morning bus trips to grab a new release, and sitting leafing through the manual as the return journey took a lifetime.
The manuals were great. Did you used to buy the game guide books too? They were great.
@@GametechUK the manuals are probably the thing I miss most about this digital age, that and proper album covers (I’ve not really embraced the renaissance of vinyl). It’s just not the same saying “Alexa, play War of the Worlds” and not having that beautiful artwork to goggle at while Richard Burton stresses about the Martian invasion. I have bought a couple of ‘The Art of…’ books for particular favourite games, but not so much the guides. 👍
You’re part of the problem here son
@@GametechUKPrima guides!! I had LOADS. They were necessary for ocarina lol
@@gunsharck no problem here, mate. It’s a fond moment in time, but things change, and it’s not my responsibility to ensure a private company gets its strategy right. More than happy with digital only, and don’t give a fuck if I can’t bequeath my games to someone when I snuff it. 👍
Electronic boutique and gamestation racking up them credit notes for them games ah those were the days
last time i went into GAME was when the Xbox series x came out to collect it, was always a childhood memory saving my spending money and buying the original xbox games 5 for 25 quid, it surely is gonna be missed but the world is changing making it easy and less time consuming to buy games especially when you have them competing against gamepass, CD KEYS ect
Nothing like picking up a new console. I hope they keep offering new consoles too, i used to love trying to swap the packages around, they used to make it so difficult! Buy the package, then trade in the new game, then buy the game you wanted!
The future is heading to all digital and will just be complete crap even more so than now. I would do anything just to live a week back in the 80s again 😟 R.I.P. the good old days
My favourite memory was my mum took me game as lad I asked for fallout 3 the dude at the till said extra £5 I can get the lunch box version just a happy time very concerned about a pre order and what will game do to honour that moving forward thanks for the update definitely hitting subscribe 👍
We can’t let Steam / Xbox store / PSN have a monopoly on game sales. I can buy a game in CEX for £4, while on the Xbox store it’s still £40 or £50. There are laws against holding back competition.
If this is true, the only reason to go to Game would be to pick up a pre order for a brand new release, or to buy the gaming hardware i.e the consoles themselves as well as controllers etc
Used to have a mate who worked for game... When it shutdown in my local town in 2013 he opened up his own store and now builds gaming PC's, sells consoles and games aswell. Its also where i got my gaming pc built aswell. He glad he left Game due to the boss being ignorant to his employees.
The 10 day refund was great. I abused the hell out of that. Was like a free rental service 😂
Ironic that you say GAME is effectively a boutique now when back in the early/mid nineties it was originally called electronics boutique
No mate EB bought GAME and destroyed them. GAME themselves before being bought was akin to Gamestation which I absolutely LOVED
If they do that then they’ll go out of business
Games main problem is there pricing is so expensive
last time when i bought game on disc is something like 15 yers ago
_if not more_ 😄
Not just Game, but I remember when as consoles started to be 'the thing' PCWorld was the last bastion of PC gaming, then they went into consoles and finally pretty well died off.
Gaming shops now are pointless, what's the point in a shop if you can't take the game home with you. One of my favourite memories of Game was, believe this or not, Morrowind, I had never played an ES game before this, and I got it home and recaptured the sense of wonder at a new world I hadn't experienced since Dad and I first got into D&D.
As we have seen recently, digital games dont mean they are yours forever. The company can decide to no longer let you download it. I prefer having the disc, ill never trade them in but at least I can install it when I want, forever.
crazy world
Can you still spend accumulated reward points? I’ve got almost £200 (saved from trade-ins) and obviously don’t want to lose that…
Check their website, that should give you the cut off date. Get them spent asap I say!