I’m surprised. Pre-owned was the store’s cash-cow when I worked there.
All the ones near me have shut down, cex rules this market now anyway as they offer better prices
Awww. That was how I got all the Professor Layton DS games (still have them all, actually)
Only a matter of time before this shop goes aswell, I think, with downloading games becoming more and more prominent now.
Shame as although I rarely trade in I am more than happy to buy used physical.
Less competition for CEX now I suppose. The relocation to Sports Direct stores near me meant that in terms of ease of access CEX was on the high street and Game was out of town.
CEX has probably beaten them at their own… game.
Get it? Game? No? Sorry.
Not a lot of money in videogames – that’s why they used to bundle their own controllers and things to new releases. Very surprised that it’s taken this long for them to pivot away and into toys.
Seems really stupid. Once they sell through the pre owned games why would people shop there… full price games always seem more expensive there too. Why would I buy a full price game from there without beable to trade in to reduce the price abit.
They closed most of the stores I can remember going to, and any optimism about concessions disappeared when I found GAME in my nearest Sports Direct amounted to a couple of shelves behind the tills. One for Xbox, one for PS, new copies only and you couldn’t get to them without queuing at the tills.
I thought pre-owned was probably their biggest money-maker, since they could set the price they paid and the sale price. But if they don’t want to give the stores any floor space you can’t really do preowned very well.
The downside is even less competition for CEX so little incentive for them to be competitive on trade-ins.
Do people still buy physical? I thought everyone moved to Steam and Gog ages ago.
The fact that game doesn’t have it’s own stores anymore and is reduced to a little corner in a sports store says the writing is on the wall for the brand. Massive shame and mismanagement of a great brand.
That’s like hearing McDonalds stopped selling chips.🍟
This is surprising to me, I thought GAME made a lot more money on pre-owned games compared to new. I think game shops have been on their way out for years with the rise of digital games sales, digital only consoles, streaming and subscription services like Game Pass.I have a console that can use discs but most of my games are digital now because they are cheaper most of the time and I Game Pass has so many games. Merchandise is the only thing I can see GAME selling in the future if they survive.
Will this mean they will sell off pre-owned games cheaper to get rid of stock?
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I remember performing a complex scam involving duplicate copies of resident evil 3 and resident evil survivor, and I ended up with working copies of both games and ten pounds profit. What a day that was.
Used to work there 15 years ago when they bought (and shuttered) Gamestation, the directive from the higher ups was to destroy and and all Retro products, we are talking N64, Gameboy, PS1, etc all took out back and smashed up.
Worry is that any of this preowned stock they can’t bulk sell to resellers will go the same way. Decades of physical media will be lost.
They need the space for funko pops and plushies.
Not bought a pre-owned game from this shop for a few years
I traded in a dozen old games to buy Skyrim on 11/11/11. Good times.
Gotta make room for all those Funko Pops.
Well, this sucks. I get a lot of games pre-owned.
Used to love going into Game when I was a kid.
Does anyone remember Electronics Boutique? Loved going there too
I was in Game last October when I bought my PS5 from there. I had picked up the first God of War game and the sales assistant was like you don’t need to buy it. Just get the PlayStation subscription and you can play all the games you want from that.
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I’m surprised. Pre-owned was the store’s cash-cow when I worked there.
All the ones near me have shut down, cex rules this market now anyway as they offer better prices
Awww. That was how I got all the Professor Layton DS games (still have them all, actually)
Only a matter of time before this shop goes aswell, I think, with downloading games becoming more and more prominent now.
Shame as although I rarely trade in I am more than happy to buy used physical.
Less competition for CEX now I suppose. The relocation to Sports Direct stores near me meant that in terms of ease of access CEX was on the high street and Game was out of town.
CEX has probably beaten them at their own… game.
Get it? Game? No? Sorry.
Not a lot of money in videogames – that’s why they used to bundle their own controllers and things to new releases. Very surprised that it’s taken this long for them to pivot away and into toys.
Seems really stupid. Once they sell through the pre owned games why would people shop there… full price games always seem more expensive there too. Why would I buy a full price game from there without beable to trade in to reduce the price abit.
They closed most of the stores I can remember going to, and any optimism about concessions disappeared when I found GAME in my nearest Sports Direct amounted to a couple of shelves behind the tills. One for Xbox, one for PS, new copies only and you couldn’t get to them without queuing at the tills.
I thought pre-owned was probably their biggest money-maker, since they could set the price they paid and the sale price. But if they don’t want to give the stores any floor space you can’t really do preowned very well.
The downside is even less competition for CEX so little incentive for them to be competitive on trade-ins.
Do people still buy physical? I thought everyone moved to Steam and Gog ages ago.
The fact that game doesn’t have it’s own stores anymore and is reduced to a little corner in a sports store says the writing is on the wall for the brand. Massive shame and mismanagement of a great brand.
That’s like hearing McDonalds stopped selling chips.🍟
This is surprising to me, I thought GAME made a lot more money on pre-owned games compared to new. I think game shops have been on their way out for years with the rise of digital games sales, digital only consoles, streaming and subscription services like Game Pass.I have a console that can use discs but most of my games are digital now because they are cheaper most of the time and I Game Pass has so many games. Merchandise is the only thing I can see GAME selling in the future if they survive.
Will this mean they will sell off pre-owned games cheaper to get rid of stock?
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I remember performing a complex scam involving duplicate copies of resident evil 3 and resident evil survivor, and I ended up with working copies of both games and ten pounds profit. What a day that was.
Used to work there 15 years ago when they bought (and shuttered) Gamestation, the directive from the higher ups was to destroy and and all Retro products, we are talking N64, Gameboy, PS1, etc all took out back and smashed up.
Worry is that any of this preowned stock they can’t bulk sell to resellers will go the same way. Decades of physical media will be lost.
They need the space for funko pops and plushies.
Not bought a pre-owned game from this shop for a few years
I traded in a dozen old games to buy Skyrim on 11/11/11. Good times.
Gotta make room for all those Funko Pops.
Well, this sucks. I get a lot of games pre-owned.
Used to love going into Game when I was a kid.
Does anyone remember Electronics Boutique? Loved going there too
I was in Game last October when I bought my PS5 from there. I had picked up the first God of War game and the sales assistant was like you don’t need to buy it. Just get the PlayStation subscription and you can play all the games you want from that.