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I talked to someone working at a game store (gamemania in the Netherlands). The stores also buy and sell second hand games. I commented on the amount of fifa games on the shelves and they told me the storage in the back just has massive stacks of every fifa game of the last 10 years or so. Apparently they will literally buy every functioning game you want to sell them.
The chain is also close to bankruptcy, probably not related. But it's a shame because I really do like walking through them and looking through the games they have. They actually have xbox360, wii and ps3 games on shelves.
The UK's largest game store was just called Game, and these days you're lucky if they've got actual games in stock. It's mostly funko pops and other game related tat. The stores mostly seem located in the back of sports shops.
Physical games are in big trouble.
Oh yeah they have a bunch of merch but luckily not too many funko stuff. I got some mugs from there.
It's sad news though, can't do digital second hand games or borrow one from a friend.
CEX seems to be doing alright though
Game and Gamestop went bankrupt many years ago here.
Physical games are absolutely declining but you can still buy them in regular electronic stores or online. Those options are and have always been cheaper than dedicated game stores anyways.
That's if they're actually available as physical games.
The biggest game of last year (Baldurs Gate 3) wasn't, and the only other games I got were Talos Principle 2 and Thank Goodness You're Here.
A lot of the other stuff I'd have usually bought on sale a bit down the line has been on PS Plus.
I have no idea about that, I just see the shelves occasionally when walking past them. I play exclusively on PC and our physical games have been non-existent for many many years.
In Portugal we have a couple of these stores but I really don't understand how they stay alive. I went there once with a sealed 60 euro, recent, game for a console I didn't down. They offered me 15 euros and were selling used copies for 55 euros. Why on earth would I buy or sell for those prices?
We used to have GAME stores everywhere and they occasionally had really nice deals. I loves those stores, it's a shame they went bankrupt.
For a discount on a new game? I while ago I bought a ps4 for a friend and just got a bunch of second hand games from that store. All common ones but I saved a bunch of money that way.
But 5 bucks discount is nothing, you can get so much better in other venues.
I suppose. Discounted nintendo games is nice though, those are almost never discounted. Plus the old games they sell are fun. Digging through old ds games and such.
Here they are discounted a lot, very often in the 40 euro range (new)
I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.
Gamemania still exists? I always enjoyed browsing through the games there, nowadays all my games are digital so I don't have a reason to visit a physical store anymore
Well for now they do. They sell a bunch of merch too.
It was the same at the GameStop I worked at. They had a couple copies of Fifas, Red Dead 2, really common games downstairs on the store floor. In the storage room in the back they kept preorders, new games and more copies of games that were present on the store floor. And upstairs a mini "warehouse" where they'd keep the rest.
They literally had stacks upon stacks upon stacks of these really common games. Like all the current Fifas, Red Deads, Far Crys etc etc. It was always baffling to see how many copies of a given game can exist in one singular store. They'd also stop buying these games at some point because they worth next to nothing. They'd be losing money buying them from the customers
It's been years and years since I set foot in a Game Stop (US equivalent of the store you mentioned) but they would also "buy" any functional game you brought in. However, you would be lucky to get more than for $1 in store credit towards another used game for anything other than a new release.
Gamestop was in europe as well, until quit a couple years ago. They had impressive collections of used sports games that nobody wanted.