Apparently EA Sports Active is so important that it deserves its own store. Throughout the run-up to Christmas, Electronic Arts will be operating two stores in San Fransisco and Boston, and EA Sports Active is the only game they will sell. Not that EA's desperate to sell it or anything.
The stores will only be open until December 14, so you best hurry if you want to visit one of the stupidest shops in America. Bring the kids, bring the folks, it'll be the experience of a lifetime! Seriously though ... is this really a thing that needed to happen?
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8:00 AM on 11.18.2009
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But, its also a hell of a way to reach actual buyers! People love the word Active, and will probably be intruiged enough to saunter in. Smart move pulling out before the Christmas rush: you can't actually sell anyone on an idea if they're going all God of War on each other.
Its crazy though! how much does it cost to run a place for a month selling one thing. I guess it works fro seasonal costume shops...
...my christmas shopping starts on the 15th.
Oh dear, wherever will I go to buy shit games without this shop?
It's not the games that use up the space. It's the people going in the shop that take up all the room.
That's implying they are fat because they need fitness gear. Haha I'm so funneh.
Also, wat.
I'm pretty sure despite the fact that every man, his dog, his aged mother and her budgie have a Wii, that not all that many people are going to walk past and go "oooh, that's what i need! Yet another fitness game for my dustbox, I mean Wii"
Silly.
Can we get a store built to single game that deserves it, instead?
I kid EA. You had some small part in publishing Rock Band. I love you.
But what do I know. I'm not in the game publishing business. I don't know when to mail out boxes of charred rubber taxidemy vaginas with little hands coming out of them, and when not to, and send an audio Rick roll instead.
Wal-Mart is stupider.
Also, why December 14th? That's a full 10 days before Christmas Eve!
:p
You're not allowed to make statement like "it's only a videogame anymore".
See
http://www.destructoid.com/lessons-on-taking-games-just-seriously-enough-153858.phtml