The Rise And Fall (And Rise) Of GameStop 

I love how massive media giants are using formats from self made RU-vidrs who make better videos.

Let's be honest getting games or anything from app or online isnt the same excitement feeling as buying from the store, good ol days.

Brand new PS5 with 300 games? best I can do is $3.50 I'm taking all the risk here 😂

You guys literally stole Company Man's title format. Damn.

I still like physical copy of my games

Never been this quick to a business insider video.

Damn thought this was company man

This might be the first new source I've see that describes it as WallStreetBets saw a opportunity. Every other new source just says they pumped up the price.

I thought this was a @CompanyMan video for a min lol

Company Man rip off

They low-ball worse than Pawn Stars 😂

Imagine investing 10000 shares @ $3.18 in 2020, you would still be a millionaire now. (March 2021) Online and digital copy of games really torn GameStop apart. Hope they can really turnaround as I would love prefer physical copies and interaction with the stuff there.

Their in-store DLC was the best deal. You could buy and install it before returning it or exchanging it, which made it effectively free.

They DID always rip us off though, I mean it was almost expected every time tbh.

Apes together strong! This ain’t over yet!🦧🦍🤚🏻💎🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

I remember waiting in line for the Xbox 360, good times. We were all like a family.

I definitely hope so, and yeah amazon should just buy gamestop to form even an spot on package retrieval point besides the gaming sales.

They can sell on Amazon and make make they're own website

I had a Gamestop one block away from my house. Me and my two friends used to go their and hang out all the time and the clerks even let us play games and help. That was until one of my ahole friends stole a game... After that they made a no loitering policy.

The Rise And Fall (And Rise To The Moon) Of GameStop Fixed it for you

Gamestop has for far too long relied on buying used games at way less than their actual waorth and then selling those used games at a way more than street price. If they want to keep the physical games sales going they need to pay attention to what Mom and pop stores are doing. - Don't insult your customers by offering very little for used games that have held value or are actually worth more - treat your customers with respect, treat your employees with respect and try to retain employees that your customers trust and are actually knowledgeable about your product - have an area for customers to congregate, sell snacks and setup demo units - stop putting your stores in malls with limited space so your stores can hold more inventory and cater to customers that want to browse your library and socialize. Make your storte a lace they want to hangout and spend money. Like comic and hobby stores. - create online groups where customers can meetup and chat while playing games at home. Like they are already doing with things like Discord. - Look into adult spaces like Barcades that you could attach to your stores. The adult gamer is a very large and under targeted audience. Video games have been around fir 59 years now. It isn't just kids and teenagers. - Physical game ownship is still a thing. Maybe carry less new stock of the latest and greatest and do some market research about what games people by physical copies of to collect. And that sure ain't Sports games with their yearly releases and lack luster updates. anything with a yearly release should be treated as a cancer in your store you only bring in for those that request of preorder. - Mobil games are popular but they represent an audience that is NOT the same as the console and PC audience. Don't focus on it as part of the gamestop brand unless its hardware for phones like gamepads or battery packs.

you forgot to mention the massive amount of shorts in GME.

Why is nobody talking about Cruptocurrency at this moment? It's on a bull run and a lot of people are defintely gonna miss out on that just like the last time

Comment sections filled with people that are now experts in investing after 1 month.

The thing is, no matter what they do it's a moot point, unless they fix how they treat their employees.

I looove these videos, please do more!

Google stadia where you can stream games that's the platform !

I hope GameStop get their act together soon before they go extinct

@Businessinsider The start of you video tells about GameStop closing 150+ of their 4000+ stores. The end of your report tells about the debt of GameStop's 5000+ stores. GameStop is GROWING.

I once bought a digital download online from GameStop and they cancelled sky order because it was “out of stock” Like how tf you run out of digital download

I still remember being a kid at the mall and GameStop was always packed.

Can’t wait for the next episode🚀🌝🌝

Stock Market: *exists* r/wallstreetbets: and I took that personally

I love when Giant corporations fall and disintegrate, like imagine when Amazon comes crashing down just as it's leaders are boasting that things are gonna get even better and that they'll practically be swimming in money

It is now March 29th, 2021, and GME stock is still sitting at a cool $181. The Pokemon Company International has partnered up with GameStop in the US to release a promotional "Flapple" Pokemon TCG card. An EB Games stamped "Flapple" was released in Canada as well. Also, GameStop has announced that it'll start to sell PC graphics cards and other computer peripherals. More to come, I'm sure. GME stock is still 10 TIMES what it was just 4 months ago.

Shame on Business Insider for copying “Company Man” ‘s video format, go watch him on RU-vid instead

When GameStop settles for Bankruptcy i hope there lawyer says i cant help you but but i can offer you in store. Redit

We have a couple of Nintendo switches so we have to buy physical in order to be able to use them in either or.

Literally just subbed to Wall St Bets forum in case this happens again...

Stonks only go up

Business Insider should make a video on the rise and fall of Fry's Electronics.

can anyone tell me the name of the game showed in the video? thanks buddy in advanced.

One of the best stores for games. GameStop is a survivor that blockbuster, Hollywood video, and Game Crazy couldn’t be. Don’t sell my stuff there but I do preorder my games and also figures.

We are not gambling, we just like the stock.

They should have started their own gaming subscription service and allowed third party developers to introduce games on that service, basically create Xbox Gamepass.

POWER TO THE PLAYERS?!...✊🏾✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾...😏😎

Dude at 2:08 reminds me of GameStop.

what's the music or artist???? 3:48??

The media : "GameStop is failing." Reddit: "Hold my stocks."

What is Sal from Impractical Jokers doing here at 7:44 in this video?

It is not over yet. I am eating dips of GME like crayons and HODL, because I like the stock. I am not a cat.

Seems like GameStop is going to be just like blockbuster

You know this is the nail on the coffin if Insider is making a video.

Rise, fall, rise again, fall again? Maybe?

So sad too see business like these go…it’ll be like blockbuster all over again 😢

Its hard to see how disc drives can improve. It peaked with the ps4/xbox one. I stuffed my new laptop with a 1.8 tb (2tb) so its now 2.2 tb with the 480 gb (512gb) But what may next decade bring? 200 gb games?

Only been there a few times. I would just buy the games at Target.

0:14 Since the Xbox "apparatus" comes with a free game: CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE III, rated M for Mature, it's the only game they're permitted to play till turning XVII. Parents don't usually permit their children to play M-rated games before XVII. As family-friendly as electronic gaming can be: Nintendo.

Just wait until the real squeeze happens, a few weeks to early with this video :D

Gamestop relies on the customers products to resell, when those customers switch to digital they will have fewer stock which will lead fewer deals then fewer customers

Funcoland was the shit but when I lived in New York in bushwick we had a game store on Knickerbocker avenue and I used to go there a lot after the video store closed across the street from my crib Funcoland used to be in Manhattan Mall and that's when I used to get the exclusive games that I couldn't get in my regular neighborhood

Looks like this video is due for an update

You know I totally forgot about that Reddit incident. Wild times

Those shorts have to cover 💎✋🚀🌕

Imagine if GameStop made a GameStop pass where you can rent 2 or 3 pre-owned games at a time and exchange them anytime for $15-20 a month

Was that Captain America in the line?

There is no fall, only rise

I just like the stock.

I love how the narrator covers this like a foreign civil war

Poor GameStop, I wonder if they’re going to survive this console generation?🤔

The rise and fall and rise of GameStop

Once I was at gamestop and they had that one game in a used and a new version......guess which one was the more expensive one......no really the used one costs more than the new one....

3:39 is that Captain America?

Nice video.

HODL THE LINE 🚀🧤💎 IT'S NOT OVER YET.

My GME stock us up 153%.

Nobody mentions Steam. They’re a big part of the competition

Basically 2020’s biggest “just a prank bro”

GameStop was where one of my brothers purchased video games.

WallStreetBoys: Shall rise

Physical games is what I always buy because it feels like a ripoff if both the digital and physical is the same costs. Digital games can be off the store digital and now what a few years and it doesn’t make a return at all

Honestly I think they should focus on retro gaming and collectibles because nobody is buying physical media anymore

I still buying physical copy of a game because the games is getting bigger and internet speed in my country not that good

There’s another channel that makes the same kind of videos (literally same kind of title and concept). It’s called Company Man. Just trying to help protect channels that don’t have massive companies like Insider backing them...

Doesn't help that Gamestop trade-ins were a big middle finger. They only gave you a few dollars for a trade in.

But I like the stock

go to r/GME the squeeze in january was just gamma squeeze the fun has yet to begun

I could be wrong, but I don't really see a future for GameStop online. Epic already throws a billion dollars a year propping up its own online game store, desperately trying to claw market share away from Steam and it is failing. I don't really see what GameStop could do against Steam that Epic can't. Steam has the whole gaming exosystem and holds everyone's game libraries, so getting people to switch is going to be nearly impossible.

Diamond hands

In Europe cex kinda killed the trade in business

My new idea put a game stop in d.c.

Ya I payed around 900 for my ps5 bc they only offered bundles to make more off or us. They pre picked the game with it and color controller and when I said something about it they said sorry we can’t do anything. After that I haven’t went there

How am I gonna buy Nintendo's 3Ds pre owned game??

again?

They were very careful about the title lmao

I still love how people thinks that stock price will help game stop to avoid bankruptcy. Stock price has zero effect on company financial health.

Hey is everyone saying they thought this was a Company Man video...Its not the first time Business Insider did a rise and fall video 🙄

Elon be like gamestocks 😂

I was just there today

I take it GameStop is game or cex in the UK? If it is, it's hilarious what you get offered.