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Wha? No! - A Black Falcon - 18th April 2005 Quote:GameStop buying EB Gameshttp://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/18/news_6122418.html Wha? No! - Great Rumbler - 18th April 2005 Yeah, I heard about this earlier. Wha? No! - OB1 - 18th April 2005 Well there's no EB in my town... so it can only be a good thing for me... maybe. Wha? No! - Great Rumbler - 18th April 2005 Quote:$38.15 in cash and 0.78795 shares of GameStop common stock for each Electronics Boutique share. Too bad I didn't have any shares of EB stock. Wha? No! - A Black Falcon - 18th April 2005 The mall in Portland has both an EB and a Gamestop... I wonder if they'll both stay open. It'd really stink if one of them closed... Wha? No! - Great Rumbler - 18th April 2005 Probably depends on how much money each one is making. Wha? No! - A Black Falcon - 18th April 2005 Hopefully they make enough money to keep two open? :D ... I know, but cutting selection almost in half would be awful... Wha? No! - EdenMaster - 18th April 2005 Well, let's see...the mall here has not one but two GameStops and an EB, and another EB is only about a 5 minute drive away. Wha? No! - Great Rumbler - 18th April 2005 That's a lot of videogames. Quote:I know, but cutting selection almost in half would be awful... Don't they have mostly the same stuff? Wha? No! - The Former DMiller - 18th April 2005 A Black Falcon Wrote:The mall in Portland has both an EB and a Gamestop... I wonder if they'll both stay open. It'd really stink if one of them closed... From the news release it sounds like one of them will close. This really sucks since now there is only one major videogames-only retail chain. Less competition is not good. Pretty much every mall near me has an EB and a GameStop, and I would always stop by both when in the mall to see if one had a better deal than the other. I've really begun to hate the videogame industry lately. Wha? No! - EdenMaster - 18th April 2005 Now's our chance to open our own multi-million dollar videogame store chain! Who's going to put up the first million? Ryan? lazy? Wha? No! - A Black Falcon - 18th April 2005 Same stuff? Some... but not that much really. First, EB has FAR more PC games. EB also has a huge selection of used PC games -- Gamestop, when it was Software ETC, had a huge selection of older PC games, but as Gamestop it got rid of them... so losing EB would be horrible on the PC front. Gamestop's selection is maybe half the size of EB's once the used games are taken into account. Okay, maybe 2/3rds... but definitely smaller. And when the two stores have different prices, it's usually been EB to be the cheaper one... Gamestop's one advantage is used N64 games, which it has far more of. Well, it's also got more used GB, GBC, and GBA games, but EB has decent selections of those too... Gamecube? Both have similarly small selections. And anyway... EB has always been my favorite game store, and I'm sure I've bought more games there than anywhere else. It'll definitely be sad to lose it, even if the stores are just converted (some will close, but not all)... Wha? No! - Geno - 19th April 2005 Oh, damn. Well, there's only one GameStop in town to my knowledge, while there's at least three EB Games locations. Looks like they'll all be turning into GameStops now. Wha? No! - Great Rumbler - 19th April 2005 There's only one Gamestop around here soo... Wha? No! - Geno - 19th April 2005 Well, I guess I could still make online orders if I don't like GameStop's deals on certain items. Plus, there's Circuit City, Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart. (Though I try not to shop at Wal-Mart.) Wha? No! - A Black Falcon - 19th April 2005 Best Buy has a mediocre selection. I don't get much there... they don't have much that EB or Gamestop don't have, at least in my experience. Better than nothing, though, I guess... Wha? No! - Geno - 19th April 2005 Yeah, Best Buy wouldn't exactly be the first place I'd look. I'd probably look at GameStop first, then Circuit City. I'd probably be able to stop looking by then. Wha? No! - Great Rumbler - 20th April 2005 At Best Buy though you can use the gift cards to get a discount on games... |