GAME management told to prepare for administration 'within weeks'

[Neil]

I think you got it wrong - from what I see the consumers benefit from the cheap titles but obviously the developers don't.

The people buying the games benefit but not the people that are trading them in, they encourage you to trade in games you may have just paid £40 for quickly so they can sell pre-owned copies earlier to gain a bigger profit, they show off fancy offers to try and encourage you to do it, I saw this with the PS Vita with the whole "play for £10" thing, that is a really cheap way for GAME to get away with selling preowned Vitas, GAME are constantly ripping customers off with shoddy prices, it's almost always cheaper to just shop online now days anyway.

[GommeInc]

The people buying the games benefit but not the people that are trading them in, they encourage you to trade in games you may have just paid £40 for quickly so they can sell pre-owned copies earlier to gain a bigger profit, they show off fancy offers to try and encourage you to do it, I saw this with the PS Vita with the whole "play for £10" thing, that is a really cheap way for GAME to get away with selling preowned Vitas, GAME are constantly ripping customers off with shoddy prices, it's almost always cheaper to just shop online now days anyway.

If GAME managed to re-distribute their earnings from pre-owned copies to, for example, selling new games cheaper they could make quite a hefty profit and boost their popularity. It's odd they've not done this, but most greedy companies forget decent makreting strategies to earn an easy, quick sale rather than prepare for the future. It kills weak minded companies these days, it's why GAME are in trouble now because they've not evolved with the times. Their online store was pretty good and, in some cases, better than Play.com and Amazon.co.uk when it first went online, but they never went further to offer anything worth while to the customer.

This could easily turn into a marketing essay but I'll stop myself here

[Lee]

I seen a comment here saying why would people buy extortinate rates at GAME when supermarkets do it so much cheaper and I compeltely agree! I loved GAME and gamestation in the day but they sky rocketed prices and expected it to have no implications. Well unfortunately here they are!

[Technologic]

A lot of comet stores already have a game in them so it would make sense really....

[peteyt]

I seen a comment here saying why would people buy extortinate rates at GAME when supermarkets do it so much cheaper and I compeltely agree! I loved GAME and gamestation in the day but they sky rocketed prices and expected it to have no implications. Well unfortunately here they are!

As people have already mentioned though most stores seem to sell only console games and not PC games and from what I've heard even game's closure won't make them sell them as it doesn't seem they think there is a big enough market.

This may be true, many games can be available digitally now - e.g. steam - but if you like steam, you'll notice some games not available like Crysis 2, due to EA wanting people to use their service Origin and some games aren't available on any service - yes you can buy them online but Game allows you to go in and buy a game on the day and take it home, no waiting around.

[beth]

went into there today, some good offers but there was nothing really i wanted that i don't have. saw quite a few DS games for like £1.50

[Chris]

Went into game today, saw a few slashed prices but there wasn't anything too major.

[Chippiewill]

yes you can buy them online but Game allows you to go in and buy a game on the day and take it home, no waiting around.

At most I have to wait an hour for a game to download on steam and that's still going to take less time than getting it in store (btw there's queueing for new releases so no waiting around is a laughable statement), going home and then installing - fun fact, steam game install time is tiny because they use GCFs rather than discs.

And Steam allows you to download the game files in advance of the release date so you don't even have to wait for the download. As far as some games not being on steam, GAME has a terrible selection of games that typically go back a maximum of 18 months. Steam STILL sells the original half-life, HUNDREDS of indie games which have never made it into GAME and even casual games - something which GAME has never sniffed at.

And actually I wouldn't want Steam to have a monopoly anyway like GAME basically has now for most purposes, I'm happy there's origin, I'm happy there's D2D and I'm happy there's Gamer's Gate.

[peteyt]

At most I have to wait an hour for a game to download on steam and that's still going to take less time than getting it in store (btw there's queueing for new releases so no waiting around is a laughable statement), going home and then installing - fun fact, steam game install time is tiny because they use GCFs rather than discs.

And Steam allows you to download the game files in advance of the release date so you don't even have to wait for the download. As far as some games not being on steam, GAME has a terrible selection of games that typically go back a maximum of 18 months. Steam STILL sells the original half-life, HUNDREDS of indie games which have never made it into GAME and even casual games - something which GAME has never sniffed at.

And actually I wouldn't want Steam to have a monopoly anyway like GAME basically has now for most purposes, I'm happy there's origin, I'm happy there's D2D and I'm happy there's Gamer's Gate.

You are forgetting about the people with bad internet - there are people in rural area's still that stuff like Facebook will take ages to load never mind a full game - Maybe they'd rather go in to a store and buy a game then getting it online (e.g. if there is a large town not too far away).

Also I bought sometime in 2011 a like 3 for 10 deal or something and that included the great classic game Theme Hospital which is not available on steam and goes back far longer than 18 months (along with other games I have seen).

The thing is its about choice - I'd prefer to be able to get games different ways e.g. online, locally etc. than been stuck to one choice.

[samsaBEAR]

I've asked my friend to set me back a PS3 so if/when they go bust, and the sale gets better I should be able to nab one for a decent price