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Let’s Talk GameStop’s Impending Doom

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GameStop is the last vestige of brick and mortar electronic gaming stores. It is a business of acquisitions, claiming most other large competitors and merging them into the fold and is on every YouTube and blog’s “Top 10 Companies Soon to Pull a Blockbuster” for the last six months to a year or so. Are they right? Is GameStop about to go under? I honestly am not some kind of market wizard, I can’t say if their current plans will save them or not, but we can talk about what’s gotten them to this point, in context of video game sales (not the whole who bought who what when and where, lots of that is already out there). So this chart pretty much tells a very, very interesting story. The company went public in 2002 at around $10 USD a share. In 2002, we were still in the world of…

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Virtual Reality in 2020 Report

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Modern day VR started back in 2013 with the Oculus Dev Kit 1 (Oculus DK1), which was then updated and re-released in 2014 to backers as the DK2. In 2014 the retail Oculus was released and the Vive and the “Windows Mixed Reality” headsets soon followed. Originally, headsets were plagued by slow refresh screens or a myriad of issues that caused motion sickness in games and skeptical developers who didn’t want to develop for a platform that required $399 or more for a user to play, plus have a beefy PC gaming rig on top of that. So where are we in 2020? Well, in sort of an interesting and weird spot. VR is more alive than ever before, with VR experiences in real life being the “new arcades” and consumer VR headsets reaching mass adoption, but it’s not exactly a success down the line. Consumer VR Headsets (Oculus &…

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The Nintendo Switch is the Clear Winner of the 2010s and the 2019 Holiday Season

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Nintendo’s console is a literal sweeping victory when it comes to sales and nearly everything else. The Xbox One was released in 2013 and has 46 million. The Nintendo Switch has sold 41 million and was released in 2017. The Playstation 4 has sold 102 million since 2013, which may be more, but considering Nintendo moved half of that in 2 years compared the 6 that Sony has had, we can really see the clear winner here. The Switch games hold really high resale values. For instance, I recently traded in Luigi’s Mansion 3 for $34 after purchasing it for $47 via Walmart, stacking on the 5% back on the Walmart card. That meant that I lost only $13 plus tax in the transaction. Attempting to trade-in most of my PS4 games after launch and I’m lucky to get offered $15 for them. The demand is real for the games…

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Pros & Cons of Nintendo Switch Cartridges vs. Downloading from the eShop (Plus What’s Faster)

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It can be a hard choice between the convenience of downloading the game to your console versus the different advantages to having a physical copy like being able to resell your game. On the PS4 and Xbox One it’s a bit of a different ball game, because you’re dealing with game discs vs. the cartridges that the Switch has, which we will go into below. 2023 Update Nothing much has changed, but I’d like to point out that the DS e-store is closing. This really pushes it towards “you should own physical media of your games that last a long time (very long time)” over virtual stores which can and will eventually close. 2021 Update As a note, some Switch games now include two important concepts: cloud gaming & physical copies containing download codes for games (vs. all games being on the cart). For cloud gaming, I’m not exactly sure…

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Every Cheat Code in Spyro Reignited Trilogy and How to Use Them

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Image credit to Activision The Spyro Reignited Trilogy is chock full of content. After playing for some time, you may begin to yearn for a less vanilla approach to the series. Luckily, there is an answer. There are a series of exciting cheat codes that can be used throughout the entire Spyro trilogy if you so choose. Using them is not too difficult, as long as you know the right codes. Check out all of the fun cheat codes this trilogy has to offer down below. How to Enter Cheat Codes in Spyro Reignited Trilogy Using cheating codes within the Spyro: Reignited Trilogy is rather easy. Unless otherwise specified, all cheats will function across Spyro, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! and Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. If you enter a cheat code within one of the titles, that cheat code will continue to work within the second title. Even better,…

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