03-22-2012, 08:57 AM
I know we've touched on this in other threads but I thought due to the steady spiral towards administration we're seeing from the GAME Group It'd be pretty interesting to have a discussion about the state of the games retail industry in the UK.
The reports from the Entertainment Retailers Association is that video games have become the largest entertainment industry in the UK, slightly ahead of video and way ahead of music which makes the current situation of GAME Group rather strange. They hold pretty much a monopoly in the UK as a specialised retailer in the largest entertainment industry, why do you guys think they're failing?
Source for the ERA without having to pay for membership: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17458205
It's not going to go down really well for gamers in the UK if we lose stores like GAME and GameStation, but at the same time it might let independent retailers break through, or the one thing I'd really like is for tabletop game retailers to move in to selling video games. Imagine going in to your local game craft store like Games Workshop and buying the latest game and hanging around to play a couple of games of 40K?
Well, just my thoughts.
The reports from the Entertainment Retailers Association is that video games have become the largest entertainment industry in the UK, slightly ahead of video and way ahead of music which makes the current situation of GAME Group rather strange. They hold pretty much a monopoly in the UK as a specialised retailer in the largest entertainment industry, why do you guys think they're failing?
Source for the ERA without having to pay for membership: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17458205
It's not going to go down really well for gamers in the UK if we lose stores like GAME and GameStation, but at the same time it might let independent retailers break through, or the one thing I'd really like is for tabletop game retailers to move in to selling video games. Imagine going in to your local game craft store like Games Workshop and buying the latest game and hanging around to play a couple of games of 40K?
Well, just my thoughts.