You'll get $20 toward the purchase of Metal Gear Solid 4 when it comes out for 360.
In the realm of true, GameStop is opening a 4000-foot tournament-focused store in San Jose. The first tournament will be Madden, and take place this Saturday with the grand prize being a $1000 GS shopping spree.
That's a hell of a haul for being good at Madden, but this seems nothing more than another big business attempt to crush local businesses (in this case gaming centers) at worst. At best, it's a good PR move by a company that no one believes cares about its customers.
According to the blurb on
Gamesindustry, "the local tournament events will occur most weekends, with system-wide tournament finals occurring at least once a quarter."
What that means in terms of format is anyone's guess. Obviously the giant prize for this first tournament is a one-time offer, but I wonder what kind of prizes will be handed out in subsequent tournaments. Will it continue to be worthwhile prizes, or something ridiculous like $5 coupons to GS (shit better not give them ideas). A better question, I think, is what kind of entry fee GS will be charging for these tournaments. If they have any kind of decent prize support it's not going to be worth it to GS unless money is coming in, whether in one way or another.
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I know this is gamestop & I know that they want you in their stores spending tournament cash...
BUT.... I think this is good for the industry. Get MOAR Gamers... I hope they don't focus on sports games too much though.
Now they need @ least three of these 4,000 Sq. Ft. Tourney Centers. One in the West One in Texas, & one somewhere in the East.
if they expect to accomplish anything with this, they need better prizes obviously, tournaments that aren't constantly freakin Madden, and something to really get people in general to come to these things.
...or Halo for that matter.
These are big money sponsored tournaments though, so expect lots of crappy EA games, Haloz, and whoever else pays to get their game promoted through this.
There's a Gamecrazy around here that actually did a Pokemon Battle Revolution tournament. I never have my pokemon ev trained how I want it to be or in time to ever battle anyone. but oh well.
Well hopefully the turds will remember there's many games out there that are quite tournament worthy that doesn't have sports of a guy decked out in green in it.
Then again I have to assume most of the tourneys will be Halo and EA sports centric.