Yes it’s a low bar already. GameStop and Micromania as is now (granted I only moved to France in 2017 so I only ever know it selling used and new games) reminds me a lot of GAME/GameStation in the UK, where I both worked and shopped at. I could see someone picking up Micromania, as they’re always busy whenever I walk past one and the rare instance when I go inside one, but you raise a very good point about the upcoming GTA6 release and the effect it will have on the future of retail after that.
When I do buy a new physical game it’s usually from the supermarket, simply because I get more reward points with Carrefour and more money back if I sell it on leboncoin or vinted than I would trading it against another game - and judging by the amount of titles I see on both those pages I think more and more people are doing the same.
Netease at the time was throwing money at anything and any big name, partly to counter Tencent’s growing influence and investments. Nagoshi surely got an astronomical paycheck for this move, not too far from retirement, while he was in hot waters with the new management at Sega. These Netease abandonment stories and rumors worldwide are much scarier for the lower ranked people who joined all these studios in the past four years.
Did state of play have anything that may interest the likes of me? IE Japanese legacy developers like Square or Kojima? Or anything else of note? Not seeing much, and I’ve yet to scrub thorugh myself cause there’s a lot on my desk (250+ tabs on my browser)
Nextfest demos for Your House and Centum. The latter is interesting but that writing isnt so hot however seems neat overall. For the former I can’t figure out how to blink for the life of me, so can’t progress
