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Gamestop to remove PC games sections from selected stores?

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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I heard this from a friend, that a certain local mall Gamestop has removed their entire PC section. I was in a different mall gamestop tonight, and mentioned that to the woman working the counter, and she commented that some stores are indeed removing their PC section, because the games simply don't sell. Well, except for Blizzard Ent. games.

How is this going to affect PC gaming, if the most prevalent game store stops carrying PC games.

I guess it's another nail in the coffin, with Red Dead Redemption not coming to PC, and Alan Wake, originally debuted by Intel as the first PC game in development to support a quad-core, now shipping on Xbox360 (exclusive?), and not on PC.

This is going to really kick ATI/AMD and NVidia in the 'nads, as far as their products go. Already, sales of discrete GPUs are down in terms of total volume, compared to prior years.

Then again, there could be light, once CPU mfg's integrate GPU functionality into the CPU die, so that the PC gaming platform becomes de-facto standardized in terms of capability, then there might be a revival of support for the platform. Maybe.
 
Might be something to do with PC users buying more from the internet, and being unable to trade-in at game stores.
No reason to visit a game store if you can either order from Amazon/etc or buy it from a digital distribution site, and then most places don't trade PC games, so you won't be heading to a store to get any trade in credit.
 
My local gamestop hasn't had a real PC section for a couple years and it hasn't affected me at all, like Lonyo said, I mainly get mine online in some fashion.
 
I think PC gamers are probably much more likely to order games online or purchase them digitally through steam than they are to buy them at a B&M store.
 
VirtualLarry said:
This is going to really kick ATI/AMD and NVidia in the 'nads, as far as their products go. Already, sales of discrete GPUs are down in terms of total volume, compared to prior years.
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Consoles use ATI and Nvidia GPU's and without ATI and Nvidia future consoles would be massively delayed and/or severely underpowered.

PC gaming is doing fine.
 
PC gamers don't buy from Gamestop. Since actually understand how much Gamestop sucks. This won't affect us at all, or the industry.

There common places the games are bought are at:

1. Newegg.com
2. BestBuy
3. Amazon.com

And maybe a few others, no one cares about gamestop.
 
Vrai said:
PC gamers don't buy from Gamestop.
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This.

I've never bought a pc game from gamestop in the ~10 years I've been playing pc games.

I can't even remember the last time I bought a physical copy of a game. My purchases this year have all been digital from steam or D2D - BC2, Metro 2033, Stalker COP, Dirt2, CoD4, Cyrostasis, Napolean Total War, every single one was a digital copy.
 
Vrai said:
PC gamers don't buy from Gamestop. Since actually understand how much Gamestop sucks. This won't affect us at all, or the industry.

There common places the games are bought are at:

1. Newegg.com
2. BestBuy
3. Amazon.com

And maybe a few others, no one cares about gamestop.
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I agree.
 
This isn't a brand new thing they are doing. I remember being in a gamestop several years ago that had no PC section.

I used to buy from gamestop alot back before I was old enought to have debit/credit cards and could buy online. At some point though, for reasons unknown to me, walmart and bestbuy overtook GS as the places I went to pay cash for games.

Nowadays everything I buy is on Steam.
 
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Is this really a lose when the current section for PC games is a pitiful rack that is 3 feet tall and a foot wide?
 
Gamestop stays alive and is successful because of used game sales. It won't effect pc game sales. Large retailers still have whole aisles dedicated to pc entertainment.
 
I don't think that the retail PC market has many years left anyway, Gamestop or not, with the arrival of digital download and the recent desire to get rid of retail boxes and manuals I can't see a brand new PC game being sold at any retail store in ten years from now, it will happen eventually, it's just a question of transition, adaptation and ultimately time.
 
Like so many others I'm gonna give this a big "who the f*** cares?" Gamestop hasn't carried a large PC game inventory for a long time, many of them already didn't have a PC section, and Steam and other digital distribution vendors have long overtaken the sales volume of Gamestop and will only continue to get bigger.
 
I can't think of a gamestop near here that actually DOES still stock PC games... so I doubt it'll change a damn thing.
 
Downloadable content.

I could see the next generation consoles driving these stores out entirely.

All 3 of the console makers seem to be leaning toward online sales to cut out the middleman.
 
VirtualLarry said:
I heard this from a friend, that a certain local mall Gamestop has removed their entire PC section. I was in a different mall gamestop tonight, and mentioned that to the woman working the counter, and she commented that some stores are indeed removing their PC section, because the games simply don't sell. Well, except for Blizzard Ent. games.

How is this going to affect PC gaming, if the most prevalent game store stops carrying PC games.

I guess it's another nail in the coffin, with Red Dead Redemption not coming to PC, and Alan Wake, originally debuted by Intel as the first PC game in development to support a quad-core, now shipping on Xbox360 (exclusive?), and not on PC.

This is going to really kick ATI/AMD and NVidia in the 'nads, as far as their products go. Already, sales of discrete GPUs are down in terms of total volume, compared to prior years.

Then again, there could be light, once CPU mfg's integrate GPU functionality into the CPU die, so that the PC gaming platform becomes de-facto standardized in terms of capability, then there might be a revival of support for the platform. Maybe.
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not a problem at all. Gamestop stores have barely had any PC games in them for awhile. I buy most of my PC games through Steam or online, like from Amazon anyway. This won't affect PC gaming at all.
 
The last PC game I bought boxed was Fallout 3.
I buy everything on Steam now, mostly because of their sales. You can pick up relatively new games for cheap. I mean $7.50 for Tropico 3? How can Gamestop top that? Their stuff never goes on sales.

I buy all my console stuff at Gamestop though. Mostly because it's on my way home from work, literally five minutes from my house.
 
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