GameStop shares drop 15% following holiday sales info release

Resistance may be futile but I suppose that even the Borg must bend to the ebb and flow of the economy...

Couldn't happen to a better company. Still want 3D gaming to fail?

I, for one, plan on buying more games in Q1 than in all of 2009... but not at GameStop.

It woulda helped if their idea of sales wasn't a doorbuster World at War for 40 bucks.

yeah power to the players... to go get their games someplace else

Eh, Amazon has lower prices anyway.

I hate Gamestop, grrrrrr!!!

... I just wanted to be cool and accepted. T_T

People are starting to wise up to gamestop's predatory pricing tactics. They could go under and I wouldn't care, they're springing up like starbucks around here and the employees seem clueless and disinterested half the time and only interested in pushing preorders and subscriptions.

I think it's garbage when I can go online or even down the road to a smaller chain (Hastings) and pick up used titles for sometimes half the price they want.

if it's 30$ at gamestop, it's 15$ at hastings, and even less than that online, but sometimes instant gratification is what I want.

Could we start getting opinions from someone besides Michael Pachter?

Shauk has it dead on.

I was once a pretty solid Gamestop customer... but, over time you start to notice that if you are buying any 2 or 3 items, you would have saved $10-20 at Wal-Mart or even more Online or at a real store...

$5 on the Wii Motion Plus was a foolish move, as were many other device pricing movies they had. Also, selling your old games on EBay nets you like 200% more cash than GIVING them to Gamestop at less than $10 a pop on average.

Oh, and, making the PC gaming section a tiny island with one side was probably a bad idea, too. Best Buy carries more PC games, and they aren't even a game shop.

Not 100% their fault though, the game industry for PCs isn't doing so well, and stocking 80% shovelware from PS3, Wii, and XBOX360 has to hurt profits as people simply use Metacritic or similar source to identify what's trash and what's not before stupidly sinking $50..

I would imagine you could run a store that earned more profit by not even stocking C-grade titles and below.

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FUCK YOU gamestop

amazon is cheaper and doesnt require a deposit for pre-orders. adios gamestop

Hmmm... 50 shares of Gamestop right now or down payment on a new car...

+1, non price matching bastards and support your local gaming stores/arcades.