in store gaming demos

[mmenard0313]

I want to put my xbox1 in my sports arcade store but am unclear on where to get the demo controller adapters and demo games so customers cannot play story mode or abuse and steal the controllers.

Thanks for any help!

[thomas_surles]

Sports arcade store? Got any pics. Sounds cool.

[mmenard0313]

Not as of yet. I'm in the process of designing the store and finishing up the business plan. 


I want to have a television in the wall and then have the controllers come out, similar to at a Video Game store. I only want a few features in the game available though: Head to Head any team or online head to head. I don't know if that's possible though, prolly not. 

[Generic Eric]

 

Are you selling sports games?  Seems very niche.  I mean, I've always know people who preferred sports video games vs not playing video games at all.  But I didn't realize it would garner its own store.

Are you going to have a basket ball target game and a chexx hockey game too?

Not to make too many puns, but I'd like to hear the inside baseball on setting up an xbox1 for that.  Are you following Mutant League Football? 

[mmenard0313]

Are you selling sports games?  Seems very niche.  I mean, I've always know people who preferred sports video games vs not playing video games at all.  But I didn't realize it would garner its own store.

Are you going to have a basket ball target game and a chexx hockey game too?

Not to make too many puns, but I'd like to hear the inside baseball on setting up an xbox1 for that.  Are you following Mutant League Football?

I have no idea about most of things you just said, lol. But no, it wouldn't be used as a channel for income but a channel for marketing. In other words, it would be to get more people in the area, to raise awareness of the company.

[Generic Eric]

Are you selling sports games?  Seems very niche.  I mean, I've always know people who preferred sports video games vs not playing video games at all.  But I didn't realize it would garner its own store.

Are you going to have a basket ball target game and a chexx hockey game too?

Not to make too many puns, but I'd like to hear the inside baseball on setting up an xbox1 for that.  Are you following Mutant League Football?

I have no idea about most of things you just said, lol. But no, it wouldn't be used as a channel for income but a channel for marketing. In other words, it would be to get more people in the area, to raise awareness of the company.

Chexx Bubble Hockey:


Arcade Basketball:


Mutant League Football:



So um...
Good luck anyways.  What are you selling again? What are you doing?

[ark_ader]

Sounds like a good pipe dream, in a market that is still struggling to be profitable.  Memories are short. 

You would be better off opening a pizza joint with a few old cabs in it.

[mmenard0313]

Are you selling sports games?  Seems very niche.  I mean, I've always know people who preferred sports video games vs not playing video games at all.  But I didn't realize it would garner its own store.

Are you going to have a basket ball target game and a chexx hockey game too?

Not to make too many puns, but I'd like to hear the inside baseball on setting up an xbox1 for that.  Are you following Mutant League Football?

I have no idea about most of things you just said, lol. But no, it wouldn't be used as a channel for income but a channel for marketing. In other words, it would be to get more people in the area, to raise awareness of the company.

Chexx Bubble Hockey:


Arcade Basketball:


Mutant League Football:



So um...
Good luck anyways.  What are you selling again? What are you doing?

The plan is life sized sports arcade in a mall with 6 or 7 other revenue streams. Having a video game in there to play for free was just marketing to get a specific demo in the store.

[Generic Eric]

The plan is life sized sports arcade in a mall with 6 or 7 other revenue streams. Having a video game in there to play for free was just marketing to get a specific demo in the store.

   Sorry dude.  For whatever reason, I'm not picking up what you are putting down.    


Best of luck. 
 

[SavannahLion]

You mean like one of those indoor batting cages or some such?

Nothing against you or your idea. It's really that malls are a dying breed. As much as I enjoyed them in my youth, they're a component of American life I likely won't miss. More than half of the ones from my youth have now been razed into empty lots and the surviving stores target "upper middle class" or higher. The domain of bored semi-wealthy housewives competing in the rat race and their bored idiot teenagers out on a date.

Wluldn't someone rather hit up the dedicated sports places or even the indoor arenas popping up in the industrial areas. Generally better choices, smaller crowds (most of the time) and they don't need to walk 40 miles back to the car at the end of the day.

I don't mean to sound cynical, I just have a tough time figuring out what it is that you've got going here.

On an aside.... Xbox? Why not a 360 or One? Old consoles in store displays don't seem to me a customer grabber.... In fact it seems rather.... old. Like what you'd expect to find in an existing store, not a newly opened store.

[mmenard0313]

I'm okay w constructive criticism.  Thanks for commenting. 

I guess the reason for it to be in a mall,  with my reasoning, is that it becomes a secondary location that reaches a higher demographic (drifters to other stores/food). Although I agree w you that they are in a decline,  to have a alternative service business,  I need the initial demographic (interested in whats being offered) and the secondary demo (ones that pass by walking to something else) to make more,  not just revenue,  but income.

In the city where I am,  there are two/three nice outdoor malls but they are spread out and always over populated.  Where the three indoor malls,  one is closing because it is in a bad area,  but the other two are still booming.  I worked in one of them at a FinishLine and we were,  always, busy esp during the weekend.