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GameStop's New (Prototype) Look

Sariku

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Whether we love and hate the **** store, but GameStop is taking a step forward to help gamers find the game that is right for them- a store in Gainesville, Florida, is now testing out a "prototype" look for future GameStops. Have a look at a few pictures:




Quote by Feep, a NeoGaf user.

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As I was heading to my local Wal-Mart in Gainesville, Florida (Go Gators!) to pick up party balloons, I glanced out my window to behold my familiar old Gamestop. Except, it wasn't my familiar old Gamestop. It was bigger. And shinier. And so I had to go see (picture A).

According to the employees, who would NOT allow me to take pictures (**** them, I'm a ninja), the store is one of only a few (and possibly the only) prototype stores in the nation. There is ALL kinds of ****-awesome **** in this store.

First off, it's three times as large as a standard Gamestop, with two separate wood-inlaid counters and high-quality flooring. There were no less than EIGHTEEN separate demo kiosks around the store, including a giant custom kiosk for Guitar Hero: World Tour. They were even demoing Valkyria Chronicles(!). Also littering the outer walls, amongst the games, stood high-definition touch-screen displays that you could browse the store catalog (picture D), as well as manually search for any title to check for a game description, price (both new and used), and whether or not the game is currently in-stock. Both these touchscreen displays and several of the kiosks feature those high-quality audio cone things mounted above. Also, thanks to these displays, I found out Prince of Persia is selling for $40 new due to some Amazon price drop. Awesome. I bought it.

The front of the store had several more high-definition displays showing the newest releases (picture C), and near the back was a four-person DS/PSP congregation with some spiffy modern-look red chairs (picture B), which looked oddly like a hookah. It was quite an experience, and despite my loathing of physical media, I'd head over to Gamestop more often if they were all like this. The employees stated that more would pop up soon, if this one (these ones?) did reasonably well.

Sorry for the picture quality, my cell phone is old. = (
So, what do you all think of this?

Source - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=346367
 

Winnar

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Amazing. If gamestop starts becoming a high quality video game store I think we would all win.

The fact that such a thing even exists makes me happy :D
 

CT Chia

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wow i really like it. one of the worst parts about gamestop is the physical size of the store and a larger store offers more room for more stock and as they mentioned - tons of demo kiosks including quality games like world tour - something best buy had on gamestop and such.
 

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Looks pricey. Will they finally use that massive diffrence in trade in credit and re-selling prices for somthing? B-but, I dont want to sit on large red balls. Cant they get sumo's instead?
 

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I like it a lot, but I don't see them implementing this in a lot of the stores anytime soon.

Besides, they need to work on service, not the way everything looks anyway.
 

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Looks good to me, I'd want to go to the Gamestop where I live more often if it looked like this, and hopefully they'd have more games in stock.
 

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wow i really like it. one of the worst parts about gamestop is the physical size of the store and a larger store offers more room for more stock and as they mentioned - tons of demo kiosks including quality games like world tour - something best buy had on gamestop and such.
Yea, for example, if they were to do this in Michigan they would have to look for an area with more space, meaning only a few area's in Michigan would get this feature.

But it is cool to see Gamespot doing this, I just wish that this was in a Michigan Gamespot store that I know.

 

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The EB games near my location has a bit of storage space. The 360 demo box had to move near the door becuase the PS3 on was hugging the wall and yet 3 inches of space was still between them. Not alot of space when one guy is playing Resistance on the PS3 and a guy with World tour rocking out on the guitar with 9 people surrounding them. Man i miss the old EB. The place was friendly and total strangers set up mini-tourneys on the demo kiosks to play a game becuase we have 20 people crowding one corner. Ahh the good old days.
 

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It's only eye candy to those that have seen nothing but good "quality", nothing more.
 

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Holy crap I've never seen a gamestop that big.
Looks neat, but it seems like they'd have to jack the prices up on everything to pay for the changes.

I'd rather have nicer people working in gamestop than a bigger one though.
 

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lol Mithx you just reminded me about something that happened at my local EB games.

So i was asking if they had W@W wii in stock and then was about to leave when i saw the W@W EB TV spot. I then i saw them make a MAJOR FATAL Mistake. W@W was listed for Xbox 360, PS3,P.C AND PS2. I have deducted 3 things

1)GameStop/EB false Advertises. There is no World at War for the PS2. Its FINAL FRONTS. Its a total different game, its evident in the loading screen.
2)GameStop/EB hates the wii. The only Wii game they advertise is Wii Music.
3)The staff hate me. They saw my face and knew that the ad was wrong. So they gave me the GTFO stare and asked me if "i needed any thing else" so i left.

Yea, so note to EB/GameStop.
Nicer Employees and less expansion.

/rant
 

K64

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lol Mithx you just reminded me about something that happened at my local EB games.

So i was asking if they had W@W wii in stock and then was about to leave when i saw the W@W EB TV spot. I then i saw them make a MAJOR FATAL Mistake. W@W was listed for Xbox 360, PS3,P.C AND PS2. I have deducted 3 things

1)GameStop/EB false Advertises. There is no World at War for the PS2. Its FINAL FRONTS. Its a total different game, its evident in the loading screen.
2)GameStop/EB hates the wii. The only Wii game they advertise is Wii Music.
3)The staff hate me. They saw my face and knew that the ad was wrong. So they gave me the GTFO stare and asked me if "i needed any thing else" so i left.



/rant
QFT. Most of the employees in GS are gamers and most of the gaming population is crude and disrespectful. Those people are the ones who usually get the jobs and that's sad.
 
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