Well, I can't say that the following statement is too much of a shock to me. I think the question is, why in the hell was Game stop selling Zunes in the 1st place. Game Stop Sells games. AMIRIGHT?
"Video-game retailer GameStop has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from customers. The move is unlikely to affect GameStop, whose sales come almost completely from video games but it puts up another hurdle in Microsoft's attempt to grow Zune sales. "We have decided to exit the Zune category because it just did not have the appeal we had anticipated," said a GameStop spokesperson. "It (also) did not fit with our product mix." GameStop made the decision about a month ago. GameStop said it will sell Zune players online until it clears out its inventory."
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Now I have seen the Zune display in GameStop and have wondered "why would they try to sell it here". And the display wasnt too impressive (same for the Walmart display that had no Zunes at all).  They can barely sell games, usually there are two customers in the store at any given time…
Man oh man.
Can’t say that I’m too disappointed by this…
Maybe they were way ahead of Microsoft here, in thinking XBox 360 users would also want to pick up a Zune? Maybe they thought MS was going to use the success of the 360 to push the Zunes? dunno - maybe promotions, bundles, able to use the Zune as extra storage for the 360?
You know what I see here?
"Cheap Zunes coming soon"
God bless inventory clearing
I always thought Gamestop & Zune was a strange marriage. I definitely don’t think music player & Gamestop in the same thought.Â
Although, I would be excited to see some accessories go on sale. I’m with Shado on the ‘clearance’ thought.Â
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