Casual Gamers Forcing Gamestop to Rethink Store Layouts

The Guardian Gamesblog has up a post noting that Gamestop will be rearranging stores to meet casual gamer needs. For example, they'll be creating a section just for music games (karaoke, guitar games, etc). They'll also be putting together a 'family-friendly' area, with a focus on titles like Nintendogs, Lego Star Wars, and the like. The post is based off of an interview in The New York Times with Daniel A. DeMatteo, Gamestop's vice chairman and chief operating officer. In his mind casual games are now so important to sales that the company is having to do some 'radical retail re-thinking': "There is a real breadth of properties now appealing to a much broader audience than we've seen before. Honestly, we are having to retool the way we think of things in our stores in terms of merchandising, layout and also customer service because it is no longer only the hardcore gamer walking in who knows exactly what he wants."

Comments

Re:People actually shop at Gamestop/EBGames?

[zippthorne]

Further, why does every Gamestop & EB smell like someone peed on the floor?

Re:Translation

[sesshomaru]

Your sentence doesn't parse very well.

"I'd vouch on firing people from the society whose parents or schools didn't teach them something as simple as properly forming plural's^Wplurals."

You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of grammar, or is English not your first language?

Maybe you meant "I'd vouch for," but that doesn't do much for your horrible run on sentence. The prepositional phrase "from the society" is a tad vague. Do you mean people from American Society, or from the Susquahanna Bad Plural Forming Society?

Still, good catch on "Mom's." Though obviously it shouldn't have been capitalized, "moms" would have been correct. I'll be sure to carefully spellcheck my next random, haphazardly dashed off Slashdot post so I don't get flamed by a Slashdot spelling troll.