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Seedge posted:How, precisely, do you expect them to sell something without putting it on display? 2) Put display boxes on the shelf and keep the actual boxes sealed in a drawer in the front of the store, or stored in the back That's how Game do it, it's apparently not hard.
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Seedge posted:How, precisely, do you expect them to sell something without putting it on display? Literally every other retailer manages to do this without opening new copies of the game.
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Jan 14, 2017 16:45
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'm pretty much out of the fighting game business but people tell me that GGX3rd Revelator is pretty good. Depends on which GG you were into, really. It's far more like the pre-AC games and is noticeably slower than other games in the series both in terms of movement speed and match flow. The latter because of the new defensive mechanics and things related to the new RC system like slowdowns, input eating, and YRCs. It's still a very pretty game though and if you're into it more casually it's not gonna steer you wrong. Especially since Rev in particular has a giant tutorial to teach the ins and outs of general fightgame and game specific stuff better than anything else in any other game. But that said they did just announce an update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNRPiSQ1E-8
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Jan 14, 2017 17:06
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Samurai Sanders posted:It just occurred to me that I have no clue what the "game alert" section of the notifications is. There's never anything in it. I have seen notifications there a couple times. When people invite you to a multiplayer coop event in a game, that's where the alert goes. I specifically saw it go there in Assassin's Creed games.
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Jan 14, 2017 17:12
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-12-developers-think-switch-can-best-wii-u-surveyquote:According to GDC organizers, about 50% of those sold said they thought the Switch would outsell its predecessor, the Wii U, which had an installed base of 13.36 million heading into the last holiday sales season. That may not be a terribly difficult threshold to clear (the Wii U is the lowest selling major Nintendo console line to date, barring the Virtual Boy), but some 14% of respondents said they didn't think the Switch would even do that well. The remaining roughly 37% of developers were apparently not ready to hazard a guess. lmao
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Jan 14, 2017 17:14
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Montalvo posted:http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-12-developers-think-switch-can-best-wii-u-survey That article is meaningless. Who cares with other devs think. Nintendo consoles pretty much exist to support first party Nintendo games. The Switch will probably do fine, especially if they make it the defacto handheld.
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Jan 14, 2017 17:19
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Megasabin posted:That article is meaningless. Who cares with other devs think. Nintendo consoles pretty much exist to support first party Nintendo games. The Switch will probably do fine, especially if they make it the defacto handheld. Part of Nintendo's issue over the last decade is the lack of third-party support. Nintendo cannot prop themselves up on their first party games alone, especially if they end up like being the WiiU and not having games for over a year.
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Jan 14, 2017 17:26
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Morby posted:Part of Nintendo's issue over the last decade is the lack of third-party support. Nintendo cannot prop themselves up on their first party games alone, especially if they end up like being the WiiU and not having games for over a year. They have that support in the handheld arena, and since Switch is there new handheld I'm guessing that will continue, but in reality people will buy their console just for Zelda/Mario/Metroid/Smash/Starfox/F-Zero. The last Nintendo console I've owned is a gamecube, and I've never owned a DS, but they seem like they will be more than fine.
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Jan 14, 2017 17:33
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Megasabin posted:They have that support in the handheld arena, and since Switch is there new handheld I'm guessing that will continue, but in reality people will buy their console just for Zelda/Mario/Metroid/Smash/Starfox/F-Zero. The last Nintendo console I've owned is a gamecube, and I've never owned a DS, but they seem like they will be more than fine. They're not marketing it solely as a handheld, though. And they are still planning to support the 3DS for at least the next year or two.
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Jan 14, 2017 17:34
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I for one look forward to 4 player splitscreen Mario Kart on a 6.2 inch tablet monitor using the extra pair of 79.99 Joy Con controllers that I purchase. I will be the toast of all the rooftop parties.
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Jan 14, 2017 17:35
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I feel like the switch ad is an inaccurate representation of someone who would bring a Nintendo system to a rooftop party.
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Jan 14, 2017 18:04
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Morby posted:They're not marketing it solely as a handheld, though. And they are still planning to support the 3DS for at least the next year or two. Yeah just like they supported the GBA when the DS came out and the DS when the 3DS came out.
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Jan 14, 2017 18:07
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veni veni veni posted:I feel like the switch ad is an inaccurate representation of someone who would bring a Nintendo system to a rooftop party. The Switch ad was filmed in my hood and made for a good laugh in many respects. White people under 30 don't live here anymore and would definitely not have rooftop video game parties on one of the few days that it isn't raining. The basketball court under the bridge is pretty great though.
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Jan 14, 2017 18:22
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We are just a bunch of hip, rich white snake people, hanging out on the roof and having sober fun. Oh hey, look it's Becky, the hot neighbor. She looks like she's having a blast playing her Nintendo Switch™. Bring that thing over here Becky! It's time to party huddled around a tablet! Actually I guess that makes sense if you assume they are Christians.
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Jan 14, 2017 18:27
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veni veni veni posted:Actually I guess that makes sense if you assume they are Christians. That would explain her terrible fashion sense
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Jan 14, 2017 18:28
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Morby posted:They're not marketing it solely as a handheld, though. And they are still planning to support the 3DS for at least the next year or two. There's like one major release left for the 3DS with no announcements of anything.
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Jan 14, 2017 19:21
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katkillad2 posted:There's like one major release left for the 3DS with no announcements of anything. Exactly
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Jan 14, 2017 19:35
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Seedge posted:How, precisely, do you expect them to sell something without putting it on display? What the gently caress are you even talking about, mate?
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Jan 14, 2017 19:52
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Gamestop doesn't want to spend the extra $.14 per SKU to create displays. Why do that when you have a perfectly good box right there? Also so employees can play new releases when they come out via the checkout system. Easier o speak about product when you've played it.
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Jan 14, 2017 20:36
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Kortel posted:Gamestop doesn't want to spend the extra $.14 per SKU to create displays. Why do that when you have a perfectly good box right there? Also so employees can play new releases when they come out via the checkout system. Easier o speak about product when you've played it. Yeah, I'm aware of all that. And it's been noted time and time again as a lovely business practice.
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Jan 14, 2017 20:40
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Nothing like buying a brand new game that an employee has opened and played for a week.
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Jan 14, 2017 20:48
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veni veni veni posted:I feel like the switch ad is an inaccurate representation of someone who would bring a Nintendo system to a rooftop party. nintendo's big failing is that they got caught on this casual market thing and don't realize that that crowd is nebulous at best and not something you can market a $300 dedicated video game console to. even if they buy it, most won't buy another game with it so it'll just be the 1 2 switch platform or w/e. they got lucky with the wii, yea, but they should really start looking to the market that actually props them up (ie the people that buys games)
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Jan 14, 2017 20:56
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I've gamed out all the possible scenarios where I bring my Nintendo Switch to a party and they all end with me getting shoved into a locker
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Jan 14, 2017 20:59
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Well if you will bring a locker to a party...
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Jan 14, 2017 21:00
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I don't bring the locker, it just always materializes somehow. And that's only if I don't get swirlied in a toilet first.
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Jan 14, 2017 21:01
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Nintendo allready thought of that. Thats why its portable, so you can continue playing in the locker
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considering how good phone games have gotten at constant engagement mixed with the fact that everyone is already going to have a smart phone i can't imagine what could possibly happen that would cause nintendo to capture that market again since 1 2 switch isnt a pack in i dont really see how the switch is gonna become the 1 2 switch platform
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Jan 14, 2017 21:02
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Actually it's because all phone games are poo poo
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they are poo poo, the fact that multiple different laws have been passed in japan because of how exploitative they are is incredibly hosed up, but my point is that a lot of that gross predatory skinnerbox poo poo is why they have such a stranglehold on their market edit: and also the fact that the games can play themselves, which is really a weird thing but makes sense culturally
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I honestly hope real portable gaming never totally dies in favor of phone trash.
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Jan 14, 2017 21:12
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It won't, all it does it take out the people who only bought a DS to play sudoku on the train.
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veni veni veni posted:Nothing like buying a brand new game that an employee has opened and played for a week. I mean, it's more just the audacity of a huge company not conceding to even discount the price of an opened "new" game by 5 loving dollars...but also not giving the customer actual new game return privileges, because it's unsealed in the first place. I bought an unsealed $60 "new" game from them one time and came back half an hour later because I'd changed my mind and the clerk told me that the return policy on opened games was $40 trade credit. That company can eat a 
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rabidsquid posted:considering how good phone games have gotten at constant engagement mixed with the fact that everyone is already going to have a smart phone i can't imagine what could possibly happen that would cause nintendo to capture that market again that game not coming with the system makes zero sense. that's the whole reason wii sports took off like it did
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I bought an unsealed $60 "new" game from them one time and came back half an hour later because I'd changed my mind and the clerk told me that the return policy on opened games was $40 trade credit. Schrodinger's Return
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I recently bought a used game with rewards points credits and didn't like it and they wouldn't let me apply the credits to another game. For reference you have to spend 100 dollars to get a dollar back at GameStop so to get a new game it's like 6 grand.
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i dont actually know that the casual market ever dipped into handhelds. i dont think the "wii market" ever did
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Jan 14, 2017 21:21
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Yeah, they did, my freakin sister had one, she's the definition of a normie.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I mean, it's more just the audacity of a huge company not conceding to even discount the price of an opened "new" game by 5 loving dollars...but also not giving the customer actual new game return privileges, because it's unsealed in the first place. they have special stickers they are supposed to reseal it with. they stickers ruin the case if you remove them because they leave so much residue lol but that's what they use to make returns possible
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rabidsquid posted:i dont actually know that the casual market ever dipped into handhelds. i dont think the "wii market" ever did
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Real hurthling! posted:they have special stickers they are supposed to reseal it with. they stickers ruin the case if you remove them because they leave so much residue lol but that's what they use to make returns possible This was in 2010 so I can't remember if it had that, maybe it did and I didn't realize, but I haven't shopped there since so...
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