Current Events > GameStop appoints Reggie Fils-Aime to board of directors

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https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/09/reggie-fils-aime-gamestop/

Nintendo of Americas former president and taker of names is joining GameStops board of directors. The huge gaming retail company announced today that Reggie Fils-Aim is joining its board to help turn the company around. Fils-Aim is best known as his time as president of Nintendo of America where he was the face of the company in North America.

My pre-order is ready

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Great, that just means Gamestop will never carry Mother 3.

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They should consolidate their stores. There doesn't need to be that many Gamestops. Fewer stores that are bigger and more open/less dank >>> what they have now.
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My body is ready to be begged for pre-orders and buying protection plans

I thought he retired.

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Imagine leaving Nintendo for this shit.
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The only way Gamestop can be saved is by changing the core of the business completely, maybe embracing digital instead of hoping it's just a fad. And no I dont mean things like board game nights at your local Gamestop.

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Damn dude should have stayed at Nintendo.
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Jiggy101011 posted...

The only way Gamestop can be saved is by changing the core of the business completely, maybe embracing digital instead of hoping it's just a fad. And no I dont mean things like board game nights at your local Gamestop.

Digital gaming being embraced is the end of gaming as we know it. Say goodbye to owning your shit, the game you have is owned by the company and can be revoked at any time. Also, 20 years from now can you play a game on the Stadia? Probably not since the games will have been forever discontinued 15 years ago.

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Bruh moment

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LightningAce11 posted...

I thought he retired.

This is basically a sit back and collect money position. It's a board seat, he meets with the rest of the board once a year to fling around ideas. I'm sure for this he also signed up for some PR stuff but he isn't doing much beyond that.
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Why? Gamestop future doesnt look bright all with digital gaining more territory by the day.

Its like when Don Mattrick left as CEO from xbox to be CEO of Zynga.

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I literally thought he retired to spend more time with his family.

I guess he got sick of them and wanted to be busy again lol

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voldothegr8 posted...

This is basically a sit back and collect money position. It's a board seat, he meets with the rest of the board once a year to fling around ideas. I'm sure for this he also signed up for some PR stuff but he isn't doing much beyond that.

Not only that but probably set up a nice golden parachute for when the company completely tanks.

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Duncanwii posted...

Digital gaming being embraced is the end of gaming as we know it. Say goodbye to owning your shit, the game you have is owned by the company and can be revoked at any time. Also, 20 years from now can you play a game on the Stadia? Probably not since the games will have been forever discontinued 15 years ago.

Weird because my digital purchases on Steam that I bought a decade ago are the easiest ones to play today.

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Because being on the board of a public company is basically free money. No reason to turn it down.

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If anyone can polish that turd, it'll be Reggie.

NeonOctopus posted...

I literally thought he retired to spend more time with his family.

I guess he got sick of them and wanted to be busy again lol

"My family is lame. If my family is lame, then what's the point?" - Reggie

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Darmik posted...

Weird because my digital purchases on Steam that I bought a decade ago are the easiest ones to play today.

Because the games are still on the site. Remember how when Donkey Kong Country was discontinued on the Eshop and no longer playable? Itd be like that but for a game that hasn't been ported to every system ever.

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Darmik posted...

Weird because my digital purchases on Steam that I bought a decade ago are the easiest ones to play today.

He's right though. We already have an issue on Android where new Android updates have left old games inoperable with no updates in sight.

PC is the least vulnerable to this, but it's a very real issue.

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And just like that, Gamestop is saved. They couldn't have put things in better hands. Buy stocks now people, before things take that inevitable upswing.

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DoctorVader posted...

PC is the least vulnerable to this, but it's a very real issue.

There's always that big hole between what runs in DOSBox and what runs in Windows 7/8/10.

Duncanwii posted...

Because the games are still on the site. Remember how when Donkey Kong Country was discontinued on the Eshop and no longer playable? Itd be like that but for a game that hasn't been ported to every system ever.

Yeah Nintendo are terrible for how they handle digital games.

Companies like Valve and Microsoft seem fine with it because it's a large focus for them.

Of course this is why backwards compatibility for consoles is also important so games can remain playable regardless of format.

DoctorVader posted...

He's right though. We already have an issue on Android where new Android updates have left old games inoperable with no updates in sight.

PC is the least vulnerable to this, but it's a very real issue.

Unfortunately people don't really make a big thing about mobile game preservation. They never have. I don't think many people are playing their physical N-Gage games these days anyway. If you could buy physical mobile games (and who would?) I don't think much would change there.

PC itself is weird because physical games bought over a decade ago are less likely to work than stuff bought on Steam or digital.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

There's always that big hole between what runs in DOSBox and what runs in Windows 7/8/10.

True, but not so much moving forward.

Darmik posted...

Unfortunately people don't really make a big thing about mobile game preservation. They never have. I don't think many people are playing their physical N-Gage games these days anyway. If you could buy physical mobile games (and who would?) I don't think much would change there.

The point was that there's tons of ways digital only can lock you in and making your shit inoperable. The dependence and move to digital is what's eroding away benefits for physical.

Another is the fact that these shits are highly vulnerable to hacking and you could lose your entire account. It's the fact that it's just a license you have very little control over.

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DoctorVader posted...

The point was that there's tons of ways digital only can lock you in and making your shit inoperable. The dependence and move to digital is what's eroding away benefits for physical.

It might take longer but electronics breakdown over time and eventually old physical stuff won't work either, or be so rare that it's unaffordable. Classic game collecting has pretty much already become a rich man's hobby. Point is though, nothing lasts forever.
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voldothegr8 posted...

It might take longer but electronics breakdown over time and eventually old physical stuff won't work either, or be so rare that it's unaffordable. Classic game collecting has pretty much already become a rich man's hobby. Point is though, nothing lasts forever.

True, but you can get everything up to the NES for like $100 even today. It's the games that are rare, but if you have them already then...

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Reggie Fils-et

@ReggieBush09

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voldothegr8 posted...

It might take longer but electronics breakdown over time and eventually old physical stuff won't work either, or be so rare that it's unaffordable. Classic game collecting has pretty much already become a rich man's hobby. Point is though, nothing lasts forever.

Yeah exactly. In order to play my old OG Xbox games I'd need to rebuy a used console, go in and fix the console because internal components tend to leak years and years later, buy some fancy cables to get it to work on a modern TV (but it still looks like garbage) or if I want it to actually look decent I need to buy an old ass CRT monitor. That's enthusiast level that only an extreme minority would do. Most other platforms have unofficial emulators which if we're being honest is what most people do this long later.

But yet I'm playing a digital copy of Splinter Cell where Microsoft bothered to upload it with all of the DLC (even though the servers are long gone) and at a higher resolutions. This applies to both physical and digital copies. This is really the most ideal solution for this sort of stuff.

Game preservation in general is pretty bad and the problem goes quite a bit behind just buying physical games. As mentioned earlier PC has the opposite problem where old physical games are basically useless nowadays. Digital GOG copies are the most free of all.

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Darmik posted...

Yeah exactly. In order to play my old OG Xbox games I'd need to rebuy a used console, go in and fix the console because internal components tend to leak years and years later, buy some fancy cables to get it to work on a modern TV (but it still looks like garbage) or if I want it to actually look decent I need to buy an old ass CRT monitor. That's enthusiast level that only an extreme minority would do. Most other platforms have unofficial emulators which if we're being honest is what most people do this long later.

Do you treat your consoles like shit or something? Everything I have from the NES still works. Sure, in a hundred years, these things will be too degraded, but we're talking 15 years and you're talking about leaking components and shit.

Also not sure what fancy cables you're talking about. RCA ports are still available on all TV's...

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This feels like such a step down lol

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This ain't gonna last long

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DoctorVader posted...

Do you treat your consoles like shit or something? Everything I have from the NES still works. Sure, in a hundred years, these things will be too degraded, but we're talking 15 years and you're talking about leaking components and shit.

It's an issue specific to the OG Xbox. A lot of consoles from that gen on have weird faults like that.

DoctorVader posted...

Also not sure what fancy cables you're talking about. RCA ports are still available on all TV's...

I had to get another cable for my wife's N64 because the cable it came with didn't plug into our modern TV and it still looked extremely bad. I would much rather play that emulated on a modern system.

I'm in a PAL region so we have the 50hz issue on top of everything. Playing games on orirginal hardware isn't always ideal here.

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Kind of a boss move imo. Reggie knew saving this company will be next to impossible, but took on the challenge for the thrill of it.
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lol

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Darmik posted...

It's an issue specific to the OG Xbox. A lot of consoles from that gen on have weird faults like that.

Never heard of that. Any links talking about it?

Darmik posted...

I had to get another cable for my wife's N64 because the cable it came with didn't plug into our modern TV and it still looked extremely bad. I would much rather play that emulated on a modern system.

I'm in a PAL region so we have the 50hz issue on top of everything. Playing games on orirginal hardware isn't always ideal here.

But it uses RCA so it should still work. Mine works on my 2018 Samsung when I last tried it. The NES is composite, so that won't, but maybe things are different in Australia?

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I wonder if he's still going to oversee the store overhaul they've been working on? Those test stores they've been showing at business conventions sound interesting. Hell of a lot better than they are now.

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Wow

I'd like to see him turn them around

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Questionmarktarius posted...

There's always that big hole between what runs in DOSBox and what runs in Windows 7/8/10.

Windows 95/98/2000 games are the worst. XP and anything after usually you can get working again after great difficulty.

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Power to the gamers

Darmik posted...

Game preservation in general is pretty bad and the problem goes quite a bit behind just buying physical games.

The ultimate irony is that it is the fans and "pirates" who are putting the most effort in preserving old games and consoles, whereas the companies themselves couldn't give a shit.
I mean, Nintendo sorta cares what with it's VC and mini consoles, but that's hardly a massive effort on their part.

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DoctorVader posted...

Never heard of that. Any links talking about it?

http://myoriginalxbox.weebly.com/capacitor-removal.html

DoctorVader posted...

But it uses RCA so it should still work. Mine works on my 2018 Samsung when I last tried it. The NES is composite, so that won't, but maybe things are different in Australia?

I can't remember. I don't think the cable she had was RCA. Either way it looked and played terrible on a modern television.

These are eras that didn't have a digital option anyway. I still can't buy Batman 89 digitally.

PS3/360 (and consoles from then on) rely on patches so much everyone is basically screwed if they don't make an effort to keep those updates and digital games available.

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Just in time for Animal Crossing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1EHtX7ykEY

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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

Imagine leaving Nintendo for this shit.

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SBAndross posted...

The ultimate irony is that it is the fans and "pirates" who are putting the most effort in preserving old games and consoles, whereas the companies themselves couldn't give a shit.
I mean, Nintendo sorta cares what with it's VC and mini consoles, but that's hardly a massive effort on their part.

Pretty much. Like the best place to play PS3 games in 2040 is probably gonna be on an unofficial emulator. Which is dumb.

There's really no reason that we can't play digital 3DS games or old Virtual Console purchases on the Switch outside of Nintendo not really caring.

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Darmik posted...

Pretty much. Like the best place to play PS3 games in 2040 is probably gonna be on an unofficial emulator. Which is dumb.

The #1 problem with video games is that unlike TV shows or movies, you can't just clean them up and transfer them onto new media. They need to run on the proper hardware and emulators aren't always 100% perfect.

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SBAndross posted...

The #1 problem with video games is that unlike TV or movies, you can't just clean them up and transfer them onto new media. They need to run on the proper hardware and emulators aren't always 100% perfect.

Yeah totally. I think first parties should make a bigger effort to emulate their old stuff officially if native hardware isn't an option.

Microsoft is doing a pretty good job but they're still only scratching the surface.

Licensing is always going to be a big hurdle with emulation and digital stores unfortunately. Hopefully they're planning ahead for the future with that sort of stuff now.

It always makes me a bit sad when people shit on old games and say it's not needed. Accessibility does wonders for old stuff.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU

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The new restructure sounds interesting. The test stores they've been trying at business conventions are eliminating the Funko Pop/geek merch space, and will be focusing on older/retro games, and bringing back kiosks. They're also going to have more kiosks than they used to have, with not just console demos, but a focus on e-sports too.

They're supposed to be consolidating the Funko stuff and t-shirts and all that into Think Geek stores.

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