EA Stop Selling At GAME/Gamestation

[Lörd TH]

HMV won't probably go under, they're more reliant on DVD/Headphone/Accessories sales rather than games and music.

 

[Sweey]

HMV won't probably go under, they're more reliant on DVD/Headphone/Accessories sales rather than games and music.

But everything is overpriced and they're already in big trouble as it is.

 

[Jonno394]

HMV may get lucky and pick up any software and hardware sales once GAME dies, but they need to buck their ideas up or they'll go the same way.

Insiders insist they are going to launch a new music streaming/ on demand platform that may go some way to combating their problems.

 

[Ali]

Got myself Skyrim and Mafia II reasonable cheap yesterday.

 

[Sweey]

HMV may get lucky and pick up any software and hardware sales once GAME dies, but they need to buck their ideas up or they'll go the same way.

Insiders insist they are going to launch a new music streaming/ on demand platform that may go some way to combating their problems.

Surely they're too late though given existing equivalent services? Seems crazy how far behind they are in terms of ideas.

 

[Jonno394]

My pick ups so far are:


Flower Sun and Rain (DS) £0.98
Borderlands (PS3) £1.98
Fallout New Vegas (PS3) £4.98
Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition (PS3) £19.98 facepalm: for buying standard yesterday as UE wasn't in stock then buying this today)

 

[Sweey]

Jonno if you go tomorrow, can you find a price for Heavy Rain on PS3? I did buy it back when it came out but sold it for £20 after completing it and want to play it again now. Both new and pre-owned if possible.

Which one are you thinking of visiting? Would probably go to the Bullring store myself.

 

[Ali]

Some good deals there Jonno. I'd get the NV UE if it wasn't for me buying Skyrim instead. I almost went for Saints Row 3, but decided to leave that for another time.

EDIT: Anyone checked the websites? I can only see the 360 games going cheap on there.

EDIT 2: Do you live in Birmingham Don??

 

[Jonno394]

Jonno if you go tomorrow, can you find a price for Heavy Rain on PS3? I did buy it back when it came out but sold it for £20 after completing it and want to play it again now. Both new and pre-owned if possible.

Which one are you thinking of visiting? Would probably go to the Bullring store myself.

Had a look for Heavy Rain myself but couldn't see it instock, I was at New Street Gamestation and Pallisades GAME, they might be holding stuff back though as they literally had to resticker every item in the shop, so I doubt it's any where near finished yet.

I'm going in to the Sutton Coldfield ones tomorrow though, amazingly they're smaller but imo, better stocked.

 

[Sweey]

Had a look for Heavy Rain myself but couldn't see it instock, I was at New Street Gamestation and Pallisades GAME. I'm going in to the Sutton Coldfield ones tomorrow though, amazingly they're smaller but imo, better stocked.

Ah cheers for the info. Might swing by New Street, Bullring and Pallisades on Monday after work.

 

[Ali]

I've just checked the websites.... most things are out of stock by the looks of things.

 

[Lörd TH]

Looked on their site too, claiming these are 'Spring Sales'.

 

[Jonno394]

I've just checked the websites.... most things are out of stock by the looks of things.

The stores I went in to had plenty of 260 related stuff.

I was gonna pick up Dead Island for £17, might wait till next week to see if prices drop any further as they try to scrape together as much as they can as quickly as possible, and the real bargains can be had....look at this fucker, all for £39

I wanted Vanquish

 

[Ali]

I want the God of War Collection 2. I saw it on the website for only £14.98.... out of bloody stock!

EDIT: I saw Dead Island for about £10 when I was in store!

 

[Dale C.]

Literally cannot bring myself to buy anything pre-owned. Might get some shit for my girlfriend though because she's lacking games at the moment, and she wouldn't mind having other peoples used goods :lol:

 

[Hunter]

I don't mind pre-owned games at all. As long as they don't smell of tobacco, and they work, I'm happy.

Damn I wouldn't mind Stranglehold for 98p. Bit of a shame there's no GAME near where I live.

 

[Lörd TH]

It's official (ish)

Embattled computer games retailer Game has put itself up for sale in a last-ditch bid to stave off financial collapse.

Its quarterly rent bill is due in a fortnight and failure to pay its landlords could push it into administration, jeopardising 10,000 jobs and wiping out investors.

The Sunday Times newspaper said advisory firm Rothschild has been appointed to find a buyer for the business, which includes 600 UK shops, but that completing a deal in such a short time-frame will be difficult.

The retailer's trading difficulties deepened in recent weeks, despite it agreeing revised lending facilities with its banks last month.

But the loan was not enough to reassure suppliers, with Game reportedly losing the rights to sell keenly awaited fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken.

Last month the retailer told gamers it would not be selling popular sci-fi game Mass Effect 3, supplied by Electronic Arts.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/10-000-game-workers-may-lose-job-122313224.html

 

[fick]

Microsoft and Activision are the latest names on the long list of publishers not having their titles stocked at troubled retailer GAME.

GAME has reportedly put itself up for sale to avoid collapse, with both US giant Walmart and Comet owner OpCapita said to have tabled offers.

:erm:

Walmart intending to take over the world...?

Sauce

 

[muscularmatt]

Literally cannot bring myself to buy anything pre-owned.

A snob? From Birmingham? Bloody hell.

Sauce

?

 

[fick]

Matt, you are a moron. In the words of a very annoying, Irish game show host...

"Say what you see you daft troll"