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GameStop sure seems to be pushing the Xbone hard...
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If Gamestop en masse gets in trouble for the poop room antics bathrooms might be taken out, they'll be replaced with "the pit", a slim 10 foot concrete hole outside where employees have to shit.
TouchMyBox
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I don't know man, your story sounds like a load of crap to me.
Suzushiiro
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The Gamestop up the street from me (Hamilton Heights, NYC) seemed to have XBones in stock and was only selling PS4s in $600 refurbished bundles.
Logically more supply is better for sales than less supply, but I do wonder if PS4 is getting a sort of feedback loop where the fact that it's harder to find makes consumers think that PS4 is the better system, which increases demand for it further, which makes it keep selling out, and so on.
Logically more supply is better for sales than less supply, but I do wonder if PS4 is getting a sort of feedback loop where the fact that it's harder to find makes consumers think that PS4 is the better system, which increases demand for it further, which makes it keep selling out, and so on.
Or it'll turn out that it actually is because of low demand rather than high supply. Of course, the most likely outcome is that XBone wins in the US and PS4 winds worldwide, and I think both consoles are fine in that scenario. But shit is going to get fucking real, both on the internet and in corporate board rooms, if either console wins/loses both of those.
RedAssedApe
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just dance bundle?
Aaron Strife
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Well it's selling like butts isn't it? Of course they'd push it, they want to clear out stock.
Then I guess Nintendo really needs to go downhill to be stored next to that.
It was pretty funny, but the girl that took my return of the Xbone day one edition was smack talking the Xbone when I returned it. She didn't strike me as a gamer, but she seemed to know what she wanted. This console war is going to be brutal....
CoffeeJanitor
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They want to sell stuff...
Anecdotal of course, but going to Gamestop yesterday to buy Tearaway allowed me to see a huge stack of Xbones just sitting on the floor, unnoticed while a majority of the store was swarming around the PS3, PS4, and 3DS sections. I felt kind of bad for the Xbone. I'd love to get one for Killer Instinct and maybe Just Dance, but $500 is too steep at the moment.
Shining Sunshine
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They have no PS4s to sell. They have Xbones to sell.
It's a pretty obvious choice what to do.
It's a pretty obvious choice what to do.
There's 2 Gamestops at the mall close to where I live and in one site, I see stacks of Xbox One at the entrance with handwritten signs saying "In Stock Now." I'm like, no shit Sherlock, I see them right there in front of me. As for the PS4, they're missing in action.
Gamestop is just trying to clear out some inventories for the holiday sales.
Gamestop is just trying to clear out some inventories for the holiday sales.
Nothing out of the ordinary really.
From what I've read PS4 sells the moment it's in the store, Xbox One on the other hard is having a bit of a harder time moving units, Gamestop needs to sell in order to profit so it's not surprising to see them trying to move the stock that is having a harder time selling (I know people could ask why they're not doing the same with Vita and Wii U but given that Xbox One just released I guess it's their priority at the moment)
From what I've read PS4 sells the moment it's in the store, Xbox One on the other hard is having a bit of a harder time moving units, Gamestop needs to sell in order to profit so it's not surprising to see them trying to move the stock that is having a harder time selling (I know people could ask why they're not doing the same with Vita and Wii U but given that Xbox One just released I guess it's their priority at the moment)
Barkley's Justice
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Store wants to make money and sell stock??!! Outrageous!
aparisi2274
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I found this interesting table at a GameStop today, front and center so you had to walk around it, and completely with an interesting home-made sign and in-stock flyers:
I've seen the same or similar set-up at least two other GameStops. They had a few empty PS4 boxes stacked but nothing near as prominent. Inquiries on whether the PS4 was in stock were met with a negative. In the last GameStop, the employee actually said he had a PS4 but was using it as a Kinect stand for his Xbone because the PS4 has no games, especially sports games. I didn't even bother with him.
Take it for what's it worth, but there seems to be a clear push at GameStop to move Xbones. It also appears from the homemade signs that GameStop is still trying to clear the air from the Xbone reveal fiasco earlier this year.
They have a shit ton of stock on a system that nobody wants, of course they are going to try and push it.... You make it like they are pro-MS and anti Sony... which is not the case, so stop trying to start an argument where there is no argument to start.
My local GS had 54pcs in stock the night before Christmas, and their DM sent an email saying he wanted all stock to be gone by Christmas Eve... I think they sold 4.
Oh well...
Sounds cool, I bet he gave free stuff away too.
I got some cool nintendo stuff at best buy last year from a nintendo rep when the wii u just came out.
Devilgunman
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Target near me is full of Xbone stuffs as well. PS4 doesn't even have it's own shelf.
Hyperbole defined.
What you saw were display boxes for xbox one, gamestop does not put live NEW systems out on the floor. Just an FYI.
Consensus among my coworkers is that its an effort to try and actually move Xbox Ones. We're only averaging 1-2 a day and lets just say our stock far exceeds that. Hell on christmas eve we sold more wii us than we did xbones. Sold 7 Wii Us and 2 Xbox Ones. Demand was super high for a bout a week/week and a half into december and then just plummeted.
Codeblew
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Night before Christmas = Christmas Eve.
Did he expect them to all be sold in 1 day?
You are trying too hard.
Gahiggidy's new digs?
I just took my PS4 box and threw it in the recycle bin after reading this.
aparisi2274
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their DM is so oblivious, that yes, yes I definitely think he expected to all be gone by COB on Christmas Eve.
TheRagnCajun
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That's a very professional sign.
It'd probably help move units a wee bit if MS got proper demo kiosks out in the wild to generate interest. Been to a local Best Buy several times in the last month, without fail I've been able to see a decent group huddled around the playable PS4 unit in the Sony section of the games area, while the Xbox section is generally dead with an occasional person looking through 360 games. Surprises me that, with so much stock piling up in stores, more of them haven't just hijacked those fake units with the video loop to put the real deal in 'em and come up with some actual store demo units. Likely wouldn't be a huge deal, but at least something to get more folks to look at the Xbone certainly couldn't hurt.
Why would they think there was a "no used" policy?
BoboBrazil
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Microsoft marketing dollars at work. At Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Gamestop, and pretty much every other retailer the X1 is being pushed harder with in store displays than the PS4. Not really a surprise. I think the X1 display they have out is misleading though. It makes it appear that the X1 is a much smaller console than what it is in reality and they won't let you play games and just play a sizzle reel of games coming within the next year.
PaulExcellent
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Noticed that yesterday in Best Buy. There was even a guy doing a live demo of it. Hilarious shit.
"Look at how smooth the Kinect works!"
While he was saying that, the Kinect was acting all choppy and not reading his commands.
"There's too many people moving right now, so it's a bit wonky!"
People really should have stopped standing while he was using it. People can be so rude, I swear.
Just show off the games, dude. It'll be way easier that way.
"Look at how smooth the Kinect works!"
While he was saying that, the Kinect was acting all choppy and not reading his commands.
"There's too many people moving right now, so it's a bit wonky!"
People really should have stopped standing while he was using it. People can be so rude, I swear.
Just show off the games, dude. It'll be way easier that way.
Cornbread78
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I would have taken freebies, but nothing...
Also, XB1 will win Dec. NPD, if not XB1, it will be 360 or 3DS, those have been selling like crazy and have been available... No PS4's to sell means retailers are going to prioritize what they do have...
It's clearly playing second fiddle to PS4 right now and the price is very high. I have seen them every time I've shopped throughout the holidays available at Target, Wal-Mart, Gamestop and Best Buy. It's not selling as well or they are restocking like made. I think it's the former.
Microsoft was always going to struggle at $500 with no game in the box. It's just too much for a games machine. Always has been and probably always will be.
Microsoft was always going to struggle at $500 with no game in the box. It's just too much for a games machine. Always has been and probably always will be.
If that's all it takes for someone to buy an Xbox One then they must have already been leaning heavily in they direction. I think even the most casual users do some online research.
Huh?
cosmicblizzard
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This has me wondering how prevalent the belief that the original Xbone policies are still in place is.
gamergirly
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Excuse my language but thats a shitty attitude from Gamestop.
PaulExcellent
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BoboBrazil
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Have you seen the display where half the unit is cut off? Here's a pic
http://www.sfasyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Xbox-One.jpg
E3.
Cornbread78
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Let me guess, it was the Amherst or Nashua stores? Huge fanboys in a couple of those. Hooksett shop is very fair as well as Manch Mall, cool non-"warriors" working there.
Also corporate tells them the basic layout of the store which iS often "sponsored" from what I've heard.
Now all the extra posters, that Manager decision....
Neuromancer
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