PC gaming is back on the high-street!

There's a couple of empty business premises in Robertsbridge, can we have a fully stocked outlet there please :-) If you could also make it a fish and chip shop that would be great.
Andi.
 
as I put on facebook havent used GAME to buy pc games in a long time. i hope this does work for you guys i'd love to see a huge selection of pc games on the high street. I'm reminded of a trip to germany i took a few years back and went to a electronics store i think was called Saturn, it shocked me the size of their PC game section was like equivalent size of my local norwich store. Would love to see that on the UK market.

Also just had a look at the store page GAME have put up for the PC's, Quick question who choose the case's these systems went into, only asking because these cases seem very marmite cases i suupose they are meant to match the price point etc but those are some ugly aerocool cases IMO
 
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Game are actively branching out. The acquired Multiplay recently and now this.

Second hand game sales kept them going for some time but that will die when digital distribution becomes the norm as publishers cut out the retailer.

good move for all methinks
 
I'm super excited about the potential of this. I hope that means at some point Peterborough will get a PC hardware section. The only place I can get parts from is OCUK website, nobody does PC's any more....

I'd love to know how much thought went into what the display front would look like and what types of components and games to show, maybe someone could inform us all? :confused:

Anthony
 
Did not see this coming. Excellent news!

I think Steam Consoles may do quite well in the high street at converting console gamers to the master race.
 
As well as the super systems you should show some steam boxes or something similar to show that buying into PC gaming isn't as expensive and daunting as they probably think. Seeing the nice systems will get their attention and the cheaper systems somewhere to start.
 
Cool. But they will never sell any games as their prices are lol worthy most of the time.

Then they will probably cry pc gaming is dead/doesn't sell again because they are stuck in their own silly little world of charging £50 for a pc game download key.
 
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Jono8 said:
Cool. But they will never sell any games as their prices are lol worthy most of the time.

Then they will probably cry pc gaming is dead/doesn't sell again because they are stuck in their own silly little world of charging £50 for a pc game download key.
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They didn't used to be too bad on price when I last bought a game. |Think it was Quake 4 near release and it was £10. Also bought Rogue Spear for like £5 and that game is what got me into PC gaming.
 
Great news...may actually make me go back into GAME now.....well it owuld if you had decided to come down to the countries riviera of the South West.......

Have not read through the links yet, but will the GAME stores you have teamed up with al;so be able to be used as delivery points for stuff from the OcUK website, similar to gettign it delviered to a DPD Drop Spot.

....now about this coming to the South West..........;):D
 
So, should I mosey along to one of the GAME stores here in Aberdeen, what will I see? How will I be tempted?
 
Hopefully this will mean less far right and tasteless threads on the forum, otherwise Game's image will be further tarnished after they have done a decent job recovering after their takeover.
 
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I just lost a lot of respect for you guys teaming up with this awful company.

What next deal with Currys/PC World
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How exactly are they an awful company? Is this one of those 'i had a bad experience once, therefore they are bad' comments? Don't forget Game's demographic is huge, they can't cater to individual taste so they have to aim at the lowest common denominator. Game serves its purpose for selling consoles and games, no one is expecting anything more or less.

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Will OcUK be able to do deliveries to Game for collection or will game start to hold stock for 970s/380s etc?

How will the exchange system work because to exchange a GPU/CPU or any part for that matter then surely they'll have to test it, can't just glance over it for scratches!

Also I have to agree with the console/PC points that putting 'high-end' rigs on display won't draw people from consoles. I suspect the low end Steam Boxes and off the shelf gaming rigs are probably the way to go. I'd make the assumption that most who purchase from Game don't have the appetite, funds or knowledge to build a PC regardless of how 'easy' people say it is.

Hope it works, the OcUK shop is well out of the way for me being in Wiltshire so hopefully this will make the products more accessible, particularly monitors which you really need to see before buying. :D
 
Not sure how this'll help PC gaming?

Console gamer walks in: "oooh cool, that runs so much better and smoother and looks nicer than my console, how do I get that?".

Well, you need space, a desk, a mouse, keyboard, you need to research what machine is best for you, you need to spend probably more than a console is going to cost you etc. etc.

Console gamer: "oh, ok. I'll just buy a PS4 then, thanks".

Yes it can show off how much better PC gaming is, but judging from the image in the OP, there isn't anything there that's going to make it easy to get set up with PC gaming?

PC gamer walks in: "oh, OcUK has adverts on the high street now... cool..."

Unless of course GAME plan to stock full OcUK systems and maybe some components?
 
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