NE: "Sitting pretty as, statistically, the best game on the Wii U, a game we received positively, Pikmin 3 is simply the beginning of slew of major releases that are to follow..."
"...Pikmin 3 has managed do well both critically and on the charts despite not being Nintendo’s biggest project..."
"It comes as of no surprise that Pikmin 3 has presently managed to sell out of stock at GameStop.com."
"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.
If they did then collectors wouldn’t be getting f***** over with discless collectors editions
No shock, GameStop is alive because of trading. If they don't have used games on their shelves they are absolutely donezo.
Well of course the GS boss thinks this... that's their bread and butter business. That and funco pops and clothing, though those two were added as a means to supplement the decline in people buying used games or even new games. GS just sucks overall when it comes to gaming. I buy my physical stuff on Amazon or Best Buy.
As for "requiring" disc drives... nah. Not anymore, but i like having them as an option. They had a means back when games actually ran off the discs and were more/less complete. Now they are incomplete and the disc is really an installer with a license to play. If you want to change games you have to take out the disc and put in another. Its more convenient to just use digital. I have been into digital for years now and when the PSPortal comes along i wont even have to go into my game room. I will just play my PS5 from my couch downstairs. I have a bunch of digital installed games to my 5... I'm all set.
Gamingbible writes: "Luckily, if you’re living in the US you can trade your Xbox into Gamestop, where you’ll receive a hefty amount of cash as well as a $50 bonus for certain customers, just short of enough to buy the PS5."
At this point in time If I didn't own a PS5 I would have done this in a heartbeat but I had already acquired a PS5 first before I acquired an XBSX.
I'll stick to keeping both. Gamestop though... seems kind of desperate to take in Series X units. What could they be plotting???
I just want some games for my series X I have both since release and after weighing the offerings in PS Essentials to Gamepass I quickly realized I Owned anything of worth in both catalogs. And, the things I didn't I didn't see as justifiable for maintaining both subs.
Since then my series X is a legacy machine that I play my old games on and that's it. 3 years ago I really thought from that Xbox showcase we were going to have some great games by now. Instead, it's just been a lot of meh
GameStop’s chief financial officer is resigning, in the latest of several executive departures from the video game retailer.
God Job Nintendo!
where the Pikmin 3 not system seller people at
First, the chart information is from VGchartz. So I can't take it seriously. Second, selling out is not an amazing task. We don't know how many copies of Pikmin 3 gamesstop ordered. It could of been 300,000 or 30,000. We need concrete numbers. Third, the game is still availble to buy on amazon so again that tell me that gamestop ordered a small shipment of numbers. It kind of sad how much reaching the author of this article did. I know you're a fan of nintendo but atleast get some facts.
Who cares about sales the game is great and more people should be playing it. Enough with the Haterade, this game is good and got amazing reviews.
Mika has a point though, but Mika don't know that Nintendo did have commercials for Pikmin 3. This could have sold a lot.
And how many copies did Gamestop receive? I would imagine a small shipment due to Pikmin 3's below then average sales.