Nintendo Switch Collecting...
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
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Im so glad they're using carts again though, was never a big fan of discs.
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
The cases? It's usually the consumer that looses them when they trade them in, then GS just puts them into generic cases. lol
Looking on how this system has small carts, is cart based, and made for travel, original cases may be difficult to come by in the future.
I dont really collect modern stuff, I buy the good games and play them. Once the system is retired, I move onto the next one.
Im so glad they're using carts again though, was never a big fan of discs.
I'm kind of the same way, I don't try for full sets on newer sytems, but I enjoy getting a collection of the good games for systems. I have a ton of Wii U games I have my eye on picking up in the next year or so when the price bottoms out.
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
The cases? It's usually the consumer that looses them when they trade them in, then GS just puts them into generic cases. lol
Looking on how this system has small carts, is cart based, and made for travel, original cases may be difficult to come by in the future.
Your gamestops are different than the ones around me, Any DS games that come in get gutted and the carts get put into a little display case. I actually hit the dumpsters when im in the city and usually come out with a decent stack of cases and manuals. I'm hoping to make some covers for them so I can keep my Loose GBA games in them.
I'm sure the games will still come with a digital manual in some cheap ass recycled plastic case. Long gone are the days of boxes and manuals. I still enjoy getting a nice CIB from NES/SNES/64 way more than any Wii U game.
however, i will buy the Switch when it comes out,
depending on launch titles...
and will simply be getting whatever i want to play.
also, because the cartridges seem to be small,
i'd imagine the actual game's cases to be 3DS size.
not collecting for new systems EVER!
however, i will buy the Switch when it comes out,
depending on launch titles...
and will simply be getting whatever i want to play.
also, because the cartridges seem to be small,
i'd imagine the actual game's cases to be 3DS size.
I maybe should have phrased this better, by collecting, I did not mean going full set. To me collecting means getting the games you want for the system. Holding onto the ones you really like.
I am also thinking that the cases will be similar to 3DS cases. I really like the Vita cases, and wouldnt mind seeing them in something similar to that.
....Says a lot that I think the Wii and WiiU have nearly the same number of great titles, when the Wii Library is something like 8x larger than the WiiU library. Nothing tops the Wii for shovelware.
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
The cases? It's usually the consumer that looses them when they trade them in, then GS just puts them into generic cases. lol
Looking on how this system has small carts, is cart based, and made for travel, original cases may be difficult to come by in the future.
Your gamestops are different than the ones around me, Any DS games that come in get gutted and the carts get put into a little display case. I actually hit the dumpsters when im in the city and usually come out with a decent stack of cases and manuals. I'm hoping to make some covers for them so I can keep my Loose GBA games in them.
Yeah, mine might be different. From what I can recall, GameStop has this thing called "Field Destroy" where they take out the games from the cases, destroy them, then toss it all away. The only other reason I'd think why they'd just throw out cases is to make room.
Of course that's how my Wii U collection started too, lol. Really tho I expect to get the good games and focus on some other systems for a while.
Collect in the sense that i am going to try and get day one with all the fun titles i can yes!
It will probably have too much garbage for me. I'm very excited for the high quality and first party titles, but looking at a shelf of Wii or DS games just looks sad with all the shovelware those got.
Im really hoping that with less gimicky stuff (motion) there will be less shovelware. It was just too easy to make a game people would buy because of that gimmick. Theres always going to be some shovelware but i just hope it doesn't come close to the wii
Anyone going to dive in next year?
I'm not I'm still working on my GBA, PS1, PS2, PS3, GC, OG: Xbox, Wii, Snes, Nes and N64 backlogs so no need for a new system right now.
Yeah, I know ALOT of games I missed out on need to get played but you telling me isn't making them get played any faster! Sooooooooo many life sucking RPG's (T-T)...except for N64, no RPG's to be found on that hot mess!
I wish there was a site I could go to for recommendations where to start but nope, none whatsoever
FYI: I stopped gaming between 1997 to 2006 and again in 2009 to 2012. I started back for good in 2012.
Yeah I will be after all the exclusives. For main stream AAA stuff i will stick with the ps4/ xbone
Same here, My GC/Wii/Wii U shelves are full of awesome exclusives that I can not get on PC/Xbox. That is exactly what I meant by collect for it. Some people here seem to forget that you can collect for a system without going for a full set. lol
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
The cases? It's usually the consumer that looses them when they trade them in, then GS just puts them into generic cases. lol
Looking on how this system has small carts, is cart based, and made for travel, original cases may be difficult to come by in the future.
Your gamestops are different than the ones around me, Any DS games that come in get gutted and the carts get put into a little display case. I actually hit the dumpsters when im in the city and usually come out with a decent stack of cases and manuals. I'm hoping to make some covers for them so I can keep my Loose GBA games in them.
Yeah, mine might be different. From what I can recall, GameStop has this thing called "Field Destroy" where they take out the games from the cases, destroy them, then toss it all away. The only other reason I'd think why they'd just throw out cases is to make room.
Yeah, when I asked a local manager why they throw out the DS cases he told me it is for space reasons, but they have room... It's annoying. One local store keeps the cases for the better games, and that is nice.
The field destroy thing is crappy... I wish I still had the pictures a local guy took of the dumpster behind our "Dump store" When the final word came down to clear out the NES/SNES/64/DC/Gen... games around 2004. This "Dump store" was the last store in the area to carry Retro, all the other stores had shipped them their games earlier that year and they had a crappy selection on the shelves. When word came down to clear the shelves, they field destroyed everything. A local guy took pics of the dumpster that night and it was full of destroyed games, and from the looks of it, they must have had boxes of games in the back. The shelves had nothing good on them the last few months, but the games visible on the top of the stack had never been on the shelves in the store. It was sick. I wanted to hunt the manager down and chew him out.
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
The cases? It's usually the consumer that looses them when they trade them in, then GS just puts them into generic cases. lol
Looking on how this system has small carts, is cart based, and made for travel, original cases may be difficult to come by in the future.
Your gamestops are different than the ones around me, Any DS games that come in get gutted and the carts get put into a little display case. I actually hit the dumpsters when im in the city and usually come out with a decent stack of cases and manuals. I'm hoping to make some covers for them so I can keep my Loose GBA games in them.
Yeah, mine might be different. From what I can recall, GameStop has this thing called "Field Destroy" where they take out the games from the cases, destroy them, then toss it all away. The only other reason I'd think why they'd just throw out cases is to make room.
Yeah, when I asked a local manager why they throw out the DS cases he told me it is for space reasons, but they have room... It's annoying. One local store keeps the cases for the better games, and that is nice.
The field destroy thing is crappy... I wish I still had the pictures a local guy took of the dumpster behind our "Dump store" When the final word came down to clear out the NES/SNES/64/DC/Gen... games around 2004. This "Dump store" was the last store in the area to carry Retro, all the other stores had shipped them their games earlier that year and they had a crappy selection on the shelves. When word came down to clear the shelves, they field destroyed everything. A local guy took pics of the dumpster that night and it was full of destroyed games, and from the looks of it, they must have had boxes of games in the back. The shelves had nothing good on them the last few months, but the games visible on the top of the stack had never been on the shelves in the store. It was sick. I wanted to hunt the manager down and chew him out.
Gamestop is stopping the trend of dumpster diving by having everything they "Field Destroy" sent to HQ.
A good thing was fk'ed up all thanks to a certain "chief" in Texas bringing a f**king news crew to a location and bragging about it in the town's newspaper, I hope the subscriber spike was worth it prick! (Not you Sinnbox)
I for one am excited about this system, handheld gaming is not for me, but I like the idea of being able to play the games on my TV. There were many DS games that I loved, but hated playing on the small screen.
Anyone here planning on collecting from day one? Lets keep our fingers crossed that Gamestop keeps the cases for these games!
The cases? It's usually the consumer that looses them when they trade them in, then GS just puts them into generic cases. lol
Looking on how this system has small carts, is cart based, and made for travel, original cases may be difficult to come by in the future.
Your gamestops are different than the ones around me, Any DS games that come in get gutted and the carts get put into a little display case. I actually hit the dumpsters when im in the city and usually come out with a decent stack of cases and manuals. I'm hoping to make some covers for them so I can keep my Loose GBA games in them.
Yeah, mine might be different. From what I can recall, GameStop has this thing called "Field Destroy" where they take out the games from the cases, destroy them, then toss it all away. The only other reason I'd think why they'd just throw out cases is to make room.
Yeah, when I asked a local manager why they throw out the DS cases he told me it is for space reasons, but they have room... It's annoying. One local store keeps the cases for the better games, and that is nice.
The field destroy thing is crappy... I wish I still had the pictures a local guy took of the dumpster behind our "Dump store" When the final word came down to clear out the NES/SNES/64/DC/Gen... games around 2004. This "Dump store" was the last store in the area to carry Retro, all the other stores had shipped them their games earlier that year and they had a crappy selection on the shelves. When word came down to clear the shelves, they field destroyed everything. A local guy took pics of the dumpster that night and it was full of destroyed games, and from the looks of it, they must have had boxes of games in the back. The shelves had nothing good on them the last few months, but the games visible on the top of the stack had never been on the shelves in the store. It was sick. I wanted to hunt the manager down and chew him out.
It wasn't always like this. Back in 2008-2012 they kept the cases and displayed them on the wall. We would make generic cases for any games that got traded without them. But when DS phased out they took aways its "wall space" and gave it a display case instead because it was cost effective. Each system gets allocated a set amount of wall space, bin space, or rack and it actually differs from store to store depending on the size.
In my day Wii, 360, PS3, and PS2 had the most wall space. They then axed PS2 and regular Xbox completely, and DS was reduced to the display case only with GBA games. While the other systems stayed the same, and the axing of the DS wall made room for the PS4/ONE/WII U.
It definitely is not cost effective to keep DS cases out there when they have multiple other systems that are way bigger money makers for them. And with all the action figures, tablets, and now even T shirt walls, they definitely do not have room in any gamestop i have seen.
Field destroy was always the dumbest thing ever. They didn't want to waste time or effort shipping this stuff or donating it, so managers had to destroy and penny out anything from guides to accessories to even games
A fun fact for anyone who doesn't already know. Any of the marketing you see in store, we got to take home. And if you have a cool store, you can just ask them if you can have a poster, or a display, or even standees when the marketing cycle is up.
Gamestop is stopping the trend of dumpster diving by having everything they "Field Destroy" sent to HQ.
A good thing was fk'ed up all thanks to a certain "chief" in Texas bringing a f**king news crew to a location and bragging about it in the town's newspaper, I hope the subscriber spike was worth it prick! (Not you Sinnbox)
lol, yeah, I remember that... I still find cool stuff once in a while. It really annoys me what people do for some Youtube cash.
Gamestop is stopping the trend of dumpster diving by having everything they "Field Destroy" sent to HQ.
A good thing was fk'ed up all thanks to a certain "chief" in Texas bringing a f**king news crew to a location and bragging about it in the town's newspaper, I hope the subscriber spike was worth it prick! (Not you Sinnbox)
lol, yeah, I remember that... I still find cool stuff once in a while. It really annoys me what people do for some Youtube cash.
Off topic:
Youtube people think they're some major talent on Patreon: I AM CREATING CONTENT!!!!!!! I'm like: Dude, you're not Martin Scorsese over here making great movies. You're just an internet nerd pulling in $3,500 a month for doing nothing. That's why I only sub to the little channels doing it because they love it not because of the money.
Taking little donations here and there is ok but when you refuse to answer a simple question unless you get $10 or $20 first is BS. I'm looking at you, Billy!
On topic:
I like how the switch looks and think it's great they're going back to cartridges and the fact we have an actual controller now. I might get one on Black Friday next year or the year after but like I said I still have backlog longer than the Statue of Liberty.