An Actual Conversation Overheard in GameStop
Sep. 3
I left the house to have lunch with my husband today, and on the way home decided to stop at GameStop and say hi to a friend who works there.
After I chatted with my friend a bit I went to look at games, and then another woman stepped up to him and asked a truly mind-blowing question.
"Do y'all carry Super Mario for X-Box?"
My friend handled this far more gracefully than I would have.
"Oh, no... I'm sorry, you can only play Mario games on Nintendo."
She was not to be discouraged so easily. "How about for PlayStation?"
My friend tried again to communicate. "No... Nintendo owns Mario, it has to be a Nintendo."
The woman walked away, dissatisfied. I heard her grumble to what seemed like her husband. "He's lying," she said. "We play Super Mario on Wii all the time."
This is what's wrong with the video game industry.
Comments
This story made my soul cry...
I work at a GameStop myself, and have gotten this question before. I seriously thought - and prayed - that the woman who asked me was kidding. Very, very sad.
Yeah, we get that question more often than you'd think. Most people who've worked at GS a while are actually used to it.
It tends to happen with (a) parents who don't know much about games and (b) families who either know about or can only afford one system. Back when the PS2 was king and the Gamecube was a footnote (thus, everyone thought every game was only on Playstation!), we got this a lot.
Going by your account, your friend made one vital mistake--he didn't point out which systems actually were Nintendo systems. Doing that just makes it easier. :)
Regionally, people tend to call the Wii by the generic term "Nintendo" alot, so he was probably trying to keep things simple.
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