How do you save Gamestop from going completely under?
You are the new CEO of gamestop
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Gaming booths. You rent one out and can play a game inside and there's a glory hole so you can have sex at the same time.
I dont think this works. I know I would use it to demo games before I bought them. Meaning a lot of lost sales. Also I dont want aids
like this. 30 dollars an hour.
It's too late bud. They should have just tried to make a streaming/gaming service like Gamepass like 8 years ago when they still had the money to.
I cut my losses and sell the company to someone else and retire. Videogames are for fags anyway.
Immediately cut funko pop fund. Start selling older consoles again and keeping every single copy of nfl 2k1 and even holding tournaments for them.
I would then immediately start shilling the FUCK out of indie games
Become the retro gaming and indie showcase shop. Still offer some new PS, Xbox, and Nintendo games but make the focus Retro and Indie.
I like this guy.
EXCLUSIVELY sell Five Nights at Freddy's merch
let it die. no one wants it to survive. not even its own employees
>DDR arcade machines
>an employee playing Halo 3 multiplayer 24/7 that you can drop in a play with no questions asked no talking required
>sell gamer vapes
>collectable gradings done on site
gradings done on site
kys
Beg the garden gnome funds to start shorting the company again
Aren't they absolutely not going under now with the whole GME thing?
pussy and bussy for ALL
start selling retro games and systems again
stop selling funko
invest funko budget in "asset acquisition team"
have the AAT burgle the houses of retro game hoarders
serve crab legs and have robert personally greet you upon entry
that's AMC, this is GME
I don't care, it should still happen
Hire cartel thugs to go after amazon shipments.
Sell the company to some megacorp to be part of their omni-channel. Maybe if I want to stay I'll take on role of president as the subsidiary and corner the market on retro gaming and smash mom and pops. Add in playing games like a cafe to play all the shitty F2P games coming out these days and partner with game devs to pump out exclusive skins only available at GameStop.
Sell games, would honestly make a games publishing company with gamestop. Means more money is made through the games.
Didn't Gamestop try that with Has Been Heroes?
Ask GPT-4 to come up with the solution.
Online storefront a la steam for the actual games and in store purchases are mostly hardware and merch. There, I just saved your company.
Also they should have an arcade section of the store too.
Some do. In new York, and Oklahoma of all places.
Covid fucked it up right when they were getting it started.
Now all the gays at GS say they're shut down because they don't want anyone there.
>covid
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
>Online storefront a la steam for the actual games
GOG and EGS barely makes enough money compared to Steam, Gamestop will flop even harder.
>Also they should have an arcade section of the store too.
This could work honestly.
Rather than competing directly with steam, they should find some niche steam doesn't fulfil software side. Maybe try to cut a deal with gaben and serve as a hub for digital game trade ins on steam or other online marketplaces or enable users to trade games with each other, sort of like a vidya action house where the currency is other games.
Have a larger stock of XXXL shirts.
Do they not know their target audience?
It's small
For kids
Not man children
Remove all "gaming merch".
Stock videogames again.
Better trade-in value.
This probably. They lose money buying pop figures
>Remove all "gaming merch
You're a dumbass.
Bro how many Zelda shirts do you really need?
Yeah because Gamestop is doing so well right now by becoming 80% gaming merch and going pre-order only game sales.
Funky pops I can agree, but all? Really? It's the last fucking toy store since toys r us shat the bed. Games are already a hard sell since modern gaming has gone to shit.
I'd keep even less new copies in the store, open up even the ones behind the counter so they weren't shrink wrapped, and push used games even harder.
No games.
Just gaming related merch such as figures
We have a place like that in San Antonio. They only get traffic by hosting yugioh tournaments
I mean as in gamestop makes and sells the figures, not a redistributor
reminder to all the trashbaggies in this thread that:
>you aren't fighting against muh hedge funds, you're just lining their pockets
>ryan cohen is in kahoots with said hedge funds
>every business venture gamestop has done has been a failure
>gamestop has been in the red for over 8 financial quarters in the red no matter how hard you try to bullshit about technicalities
>the share price will never go back above $20
>your average cost basis will never go below $100
https://companiesmarketcap.com/gamestop/revenue/
Anyway, what I would do is:
- remove the toy shit. Keep some merch though.
- partner with a manufacturer for peripherals. Gamestop PS, Xbox and Nintendo controllers. Headsets, keyboards and mice, etc. Offer deals to platinum members in terms of extended warranty and discounts.
- concentrate more on better deals for used games. Don't make them like 3 - 5$ cheaper. They give next to nothing for said games. So why not offer much better prices on used to drive up demand?
- become a physical distributor for games sold only online. Much like limited run. Compete in that field, can be profitable.
- start doing better on used consoles and console repairs. Put more emphasis on retro gaming.
- host tournaments
I have more ideas but phone posting fag here.
>revenue
literally who gives a shit, let's take a look at what matters!
https://companiesmarketcap.com/gamestop/earnings/
wow, negative 500 million dollars profit in 2022, and sure to go even higher when the Q4 financial report is released!
Go to Ganker and tell those dumb fucks to keep their diamond hands, they are fighting the system! In fact, they should buy more!
That'll be 800k a year.
Better yet, sell some diamond hands and hodl t-shirts in every store too for like $50 each
resell used children
a cute female employee gives you a kiss for every PS5 you buy
this but blowjobs
but only for power up pro members
stop having employees harrass customers
turn every gamestop into a LAN center
maybe have a small section for those that still like to buy physical copies
Bro who plays lan nowadays? Which games even allow you to play LAN?
Game stop would be better off becoming a dev or publishing company for games or becoming an arcade venue
>completely close all nft and crypto projects
>get the fucking website in order
>update internal POS software that isnt stuck in 2009
>price match your own fucking website
>eliminate all "new" game boxes on the shelves, its literally pointless and takes up shelf space
>get feedback on your own employees to see what else can be fixed
>eliminate all "new" game boxes on the shelves, its literally pointless and takes up shelf space
Those are so you know what games are in stock. Same with the boxes for the used games
Also I'm pretty sure their internal system is still running DOS
I can't imagine most people who want to buy a new game won't go up to the counter to ask, or just buy it from the website
If you come in specifically for something then sure, the counter is quicker. Games on shelves are for browsers.
>they are essentially the retail monopoly for geimus.
What about Walmart? Target? Best Buy? Mom and pop stores?
Target and BB are much more reliable for getting pre-orders fulfilled based on personal experience.
Retro games. Better incentive/points programs with meaningful discounts to incentivize physical purchases.
Install laser cheese in every store.
Go with the game rental service that they were initially planning to do but didn't because they didn't want to spend money updating their computers.
You'd never need more than 2 employees at most in the stores and you can still sell hardware and accessories
>Implying you can do game rentals these days
lol
Lmao
Leasing hookers
Put a few arcades/pinball machines in. We have a few game stores where I live that have that and there are always people hanging out at the store and they usually leave with something after putting 10 bucks worth of quarters into the machines.
>How do you save Gamestop from going completely under?
I can't. That would require selling good games. Something companies have stopped making.
Have a small hangout area where people can come in and play some vidya.
Start hosting some vidya tournaments or host LAN party events.
Get rid of non-vidya merch and funko pops.
This can be taken further
Lean hard into the community aspect, so hard that you become an effective replacement for religion in spiritually dead zoomer hearts
Utilize the idol worship aspect to market figurines and shit
Buy out abandoned churches and run tournaments and/or streams out of the chapel area, rent out the side rooms to be used like japanese school club rooms
Turn gamestop into the vidya equivalent of that bass pro shop pyramid
Gamestop being fucked is an external issue, not an internal one.
Anything that'd actually "Solve" the issue would be changing the company in a way that would so fundamentally cause gamestop to no longer even resemble a gamestop.
In short
I sneak into the warehouses and try to smuggle out more shit before they destroy it for tax breaks and declare insolvency.
>How do you save Gamestop from going completely under?
Sell it. Sell it now. Liquidate all stock and get out as fast as you can. This is not going to end well for them.
If you insist on pulling a Blockbuster and try to stay in business, then your best option is probably to become an online key reseller. As in, became G2A, except actually record data from the people selling to avoid the credit card scams. You could use your physical business to keep your online portion afloat while it's picking up. I'd suspect that the familiar name, along with developers/publishers not rejecting them if they don't allow credit card theft, would make them a reasonable niche online. Hell, you could go into a Gamestop and check what keys they have available right in the store, perhaps even putting the game right on your account. Wouldn't that be popular with the casual customer?
Sell games.
Host official gaming tournaments with good prizes
Get picky with what merch is sold in stores (the series must originate from video games, no anime or super hero merch).
No one cares about the subscription thing, stop telling customers to sign up for it and punishing employees for not meeting quotas.
Have an arcade cabinet or two set-up in the store.
Sell more older video games, and incentivize pre-orders with exclusive bundles.
Oh, oh yeah, and most importantly of all: Demos. Put up demo booths for modern consoles in stores. I loved going into Gamestop to play demos for PS2 games I never heard of before. It made me want to actually buy the game. There is usually a Nintendo demo booth set-up (at least where I live), but man I'd love an Xbox or PS5 one set-up to at least test out the consoles and games.
I've always hated that company.
NFT dividend. Fuck em
hire only the hottest of females to sell games to lonely neckbeards.
truth is I like gamestop more then any local mom and pops gamestore
Just become a pawn shop chain.