Your Latest Gamestop Visit

Has anyone visited their local Gamestop lately? I don't generally like to give any credit to the bias/moneybag threads... but I noticed something very interesting when I went to my local Gamestop today... they rearranged the store.

They placed all of the Wii games near the entrance, followed by PS2 games. 360 games got the next largest wall, most visible upon entry. PSP & PS3 games were towards the back. They also took down all the signs and banners except for the 360 & Wii. Lastly they did not have ANY PS3 display games behind the counter... they were all 360 exclusives and multiplats. They DIDN'T have display boxes for LBP or R2, but had display boxes for Lips, the 360 quiz game, Fable 2, & Gears 2... along w/ Fallout 3 and a couple of multiplats.

Gamestop's lack of love for Sony is becoming painfully obvious... and I can't help but think it is going to influence the purchase decisions of holiday shoppers this holiday.

Has anyone visited their local Gamestop lately? I don't generally like to give any credit to the bias/moneybag threads... but I noticed something very interesting when I went to my local Gamestop today... they rearranged the store.

They placed all of the Wii games near the entrance, followed by PS2 games. 360 games got the next largest wall, most visible upon entry. PSP & PS3 games were towards the back. They also took down all the signs and banners except for the 360 & Wii. Lastly they did not have ANY PS3 display games behind the counter... they were all 360 exclusives and multiplats. They DIDN'T have display boxes for LBP or R2, but had display boxes for Lips, the 360 quiz game, Fable 2, & Gears 2... along w/ Fallout 3 and a couple of multiplats.

Gamestop's lack of love for Sony is becoming painfully obvious... and I can't help but think it is going to influence the purchase decisions of holiday shoppers this holiday.

Sgt_Hale

360 & Wii price + all the Used games = Money for Gamestop

My Gamestop stores are quite the opposite. As soon as you walk in... PsP (Right Shelves) Ps3 (After PsP) Ps2 (After Ps3) Xbox / Pc (so on towards the back walls..) Wii = is in the front left as soon as you walk in.

The only problem I have is the people that work behind the counters. Everything I mention "Xbox is better..." I laugh most of time and say thanks anyway.

When I worked there Sony/Microsoft and Nintendo paid to have the prime space in the store. It changed from month to month. Same with games. Certain companies paid to have games displayed. I dont know if it is still the same it probaby is.stuartcee

Well that explains the lack of PS3 love in some stores LOL. I think everyone with a PS3 knows SONY doesnt have to throw money at stores to sell their products. LOL Besides, if someone wants to buy a 360 over PS3 due to a store employe deserves the cheaper 360 in more ways than one.LOL

To be honest I don't buy at my local EB Games anymore due to buying a brand new game and come home to a scratched disc and booklet crumpled up. As if they sold me a used one for the same price as new. I only go there to buy an old game but that's about it.

Anyways I now purchase my games and hardware at Future shop (get a discount from friend).

Has anyone visited their local Gamestop lately? I don't generally like to give any credit to the bias/moneybag threads... but I noticed something very interesting when I went to my local Gamestop today... they rearranged the store.

They placed all of the Wii games near the entrance, followed by PS2 games. 360 games got the next largest wall, most visible upon entry. PSP & PS3 games were towards the back. They also took down all the signs and banners except for the 360 & Wii. Lastly they did not have ANY PS3 display games behind the counter... they were all 360 exclusives and multiplats. They DIDN'T have display boxes for LBP or R2, but had display boxes for Lips, the 360 quiz game, Fable 2, & Gears 2... along w/ Fallout 3 and a couple of multiplats.

Gamestop's lack of love for Sony is becoming painfully obvious... and I can't help but think it is going to influence the purchase decisions of holiday shoppers this holiday.

Sgt_Hale

Thats because a lot of Gamestops stores did there yearly relay for the store. Its basically just moving all there games around.

Gamestop doesn't have a lack for love on Sony at all. Its the SM and employee's who have the lack of love for Sony. At my store we have an awesome wall for Ps3 games. And I recommend PS3's all the time to customers.

My local gamestop (one of 4 i'm thinking of) has Nintendo up front and to the left and right as you walk in. A little further back you have Ps2 on the right, counter on the left, xbox 360 and Ps3 are side by side in the back. The 360 clearly has more titles available than the ps3, but when I browse through them I see fewer i'm interested in than I see on the ps3 side. Granted, that hasn't got anything to do with Gamestop (I just felt like pointing that out).

The people behind the counter seem to like both the ps3 and the 360. They don't recommend one over the other and if nothing else seem to scoff at the 360.

Another one at a local mall had two employees that started a conversation with me, one had and loved his 360, and the other, a girl, had a ps3 and she loved it. Their display had ps3 up front and right, Nintendo up front and left, 360 in the back - but again it had more wall space than the Ps3.

Seems they're giving every system a fair shake at Gamestop around here. I have no complaints. They seem like a good group.

What ever happened to the game stores of Babages and Electronics Boutique. I feel as though they disappeared overnight. Doh!

Both Gamestops I go to support all consoles I don't know what you guys are talking about.Duckman5

Believe me, I wouldn't make it up! I pre-ordered Gears 2, Resistance 2, & LBP... so I'm not anti-360 or anything... I just found it REALLY REALLY shocking. I mean, Sony has at least 5 exclusives coming out b/w this month and next, 2 of them are pretty huge, and this gamestop did not have ANY display boxes for these games cooming soon, it was just kind of weird to me... I know some employees are fanboys, and that's understandable... but I've never seen an entire store leaning to one side like that before!

[QUOTE="Duckman5"]Both Gamestops I go to support all consoles I don't know what you guys are talking about.Sgt_Hale

Believe me, I wouldn't make it up! I pre-ordered Gears 2, Resistance 2, & LBP... so I'm not anti-360 or anything... I just found it REALLY REALLY shocking. I mean, Sony has at least 5 exclusives coming out b/w this month and next, 2 of them are pretty huge, and this gamestop did not have ANY display boxes for these games cooming soon, it was just kind of weird to me... I know some employees are fanboys, and that's understandable... but I've never seen an entire store leaning to one side like that before!

I didn't say you were lying, just saying I haven't seen what your talking about.

My friend is the General Manager of my local Gamestop. He told me that Microsoft pays Gamestop money for doing that. So all Gamestop's were supposedly required to re-arrange their stores like that.wmattm

I would believe that if they were doing it at all the stores, but apparently that is not the case.

I recently went to one of my local gamestops and found it quite nice

3 times actually, once to preorder Warhammer, once to pick it up and most recently to preorder LBP. The first two times don't really count since I talked to the guys about computer games and MMO's in general.

The last time I was in I talked to 2 of them that owned a PS3 and one I know had a 360 as well. He talked about being strapped for cash because of buying games for both.

The PS3 games also filled up the shelves behind the counter instead of being in one of the cramped shelves in the middle or along the outter wall. Seemed like a nice setup and the clerks didn't seem to be biased, though like others I've had experiance where they pushed 360 harder than the rest.