GAME in “dialogue” to secure lending, may sell-off overseas business

This is about to go completely wrong.

If its a matter of credit insurance, which has affected many retailers, can’t the government can provide a bailout fund loan to a company that stands a decent chance of remaining in business.

Failing that, if the industry needs GAME so much, why don’t EA, Ubi and T2 invest for a stake of the company?

Just had a conversation about this with someone. Basically, it needs to pull in GameStation and have it operate under GAME as one brand. That’s just one thing, though.

Maybe joining as one brand would be cost effective and could close down many shops to save some money.

I’ve been to so many places that have a GAME almost next door to a Game-Station with another GAME or Game-Station just around the corner.

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For reputation’s sake, I think they’d be better of renaming everything to Gamestation – it’s by far the better store.

If they put GAME and Gamestation into one it would make more sense and save them money.

Where I live there is a GAME store and literally just across the road is a Gamestation XD

Actually working for the group, I can see where all of this seems like bad news and it’s unfortunate that Game have come under the microscope so much over the past 12 months or so, but the atmosphere in stores couldn’t be more different; there isn’t a vibe of doom and gloom and staff – be it at higher or lower levels aren’t being told to brace themselves or anything like as bad…. I think the Group will pull through, the Vita is just around the corner and the Wii U should help also.

Game Stores Group are – like it or not – the only real specialist retailer on the highstreet, and if they did face the worst imagine the rest of retail? We’d all be buying our games from Tesco or banking on the fact that Amazon would hold our favourite titles with the vague hope of using their clunky trade in scheme to get rid of the titles we’ve played, it’d be a sad day…

A lot of folk in the industry would not be sad to see it go, pushing preowned and cutting out the publisher and developer has not made them any friends. Personally I don’t find Game stores competitive and only buy there in emergencies.

@6 Pretty much what the person told the same thing, re: GAME and GameStation in close proximity. In fact, he was at the Vita Rooms event in Glasgow, where he said (and I’m sure Colin can back me up on this as he was there) there was a GAME opposite the venue and about 20 yards down the street, there was a GameStation.

@9 Yup, there’s a GAME and GameStation within about…50 metres of each other.

It’s worse in Dundee. The two shops are nearly opposite each other, 30 seconds walk apart!

I think having Game and Gamestation stores relatively close is somewhat tactical, they want you to look in both.

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While I’m sure probably true, I think a lot of it just comes the placement of the stores after being bought from Blockbuster 5 years ago.