"80% of games are crap", says online retailer

[Hungry Horace]

probably more than 80%.

best to play Retro as well.... you'll get a lot more hours worth of entertainment.

[iniquitous_beast]

I assume that this business has some control over its inventory. For a small store, the best strategy would be to follow previews and release dates, then to just buy only the games that either look good or already have a huge following.

True, 80+% of games are crap, but about 30% of the crap can be weeded out just by reading the game's title. Even more can be weeded out by staying on top of previews and reviews.

[SSaxdude]

I think most (75%) of games offer some entertainment, but may be only entertaining for a short amount of time. I'd say that 20% of games are good enough to finish the game.

[VFerg]

Yea 80% is crap. But that does not bother me at all since if there was a larger percentage of games that were good I think I would find myself playing games way to much and I already play a lot as it is. There are almost always 5 games on my list that I want to play but probably will never get around to it and lets not even talk about finishing them. Boy how I wish I could go back to the simple life of being young.

[cloud_952]

I think that's really childish and pathetic for a shop to do. They should've just phased out games. I would definitely stop shopping there, even if I only used them for DVDs. They clearly lack any element of maturity.

[devmas]

Well, I agree with them in a way.

Reading that they make only like, $5 off each game, and that the companies would not buy back the games that don't sell, and combine that with the whole 20% of games worth getting anyway, the video game buisiness does not sound like a very profitable one. I hope to not see more companies follow in their footsteps, and quit selling games.

I wonder if it is possible to hoose which games you sell... then, in that case, small companies can only sell games that will actually sell.

[Atari]

I think the number is higher, especially these days. I also think that the majority (not all, so don't get mad) of casual gamers are at fault for this. Gaming has become another symbol of status; a race to see who can get the latest console and the newest piece of $#@! with great graphics but garbage gameplay. Most games are mere sequels with window-dressing, or clones of best-sellers, while original ideas get tossed to the wayside or don't do well at all in the mainstream.

I'm thankful that we have homebrew, although I'd really like to see far less clones, REMAKES (jesus, how many goddamn remakes of Asteroids do we need?!?!?!) and more complete, thought-out games in homebrew. It'd be nice if garage game designers worked on their games to the point of perfection, rather than worry about getting something out and making a name for themselves. The latter is NOT important in any way...

[Amethyst]

I agree with Cloud. The shop should of done research on the products they are purchasing if they felt a profit wasn't being made. What games are being most anticipated? Which are receiving the better press? Which kind games have a reputation of sucking eggs overall?

If you're selling something you make sure to do your research.

[VampDude]

I would actually say that 98% of games were crap, there is a lack of originality in todays gaming industry. They constantly try and feed us sequels, I don't actually go for sequels (except FinalFantasy ResidentEvil and Zelda) as I find most sequels boring and somewhat unoriginal from the prequel (i.e: NeedForSpeed TigerWoods FIFA - strangely all EA games), the most original thing I can say I actually like is the Wii for being original - but sadly third party publishers will start trying to push their crap onto the Wii and the originality of the Wii won't last as publishers such as EA only release sequels upon sequels "which in most cases it's a once you've played one you've played them all", and that is NO fun whatsoever. Publishers need to start releasing games of more originality, whether it be for Nintendo Microsoft or SONY. Publishers need to take a long good look at Nintendo then take a good look at themselves, Nintendo wins hands down for originality every time they release a game cause they don't push sequels upon sequels of the same game year after year such as EA who each year around September since 1992/93 have released a FIFA NFL and NHL game then since 1995/96 NBA and 1998 Tiger Woods - it's NO wonder why games these days are complete and utter crap...

...Back in the early/mid 90's when it was just SEGA and Nintendo before SONY, the games were decent and original plus 99% of the gaming market was good and NOT crap like it is today!

[hp1]

89.345% of statictsics are fabricated.......