GameStop Controls 21% of US Retail Videogame Market, Report Estimates

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.....was just about to say walmart controls the planet.

i really dont understand the utter hate that EB and Gamestop gets... whoopty doo, they sell used games. ZOMG DIVIDE BY ZERO!!!!!! AAAAAAAAARGGGG NERD RAGE PERK EQUIPPED!!!!
So does just about every other video rental store on the planet. I say go bitch at them as well, yet all the hate goes to these guys. Guess what, it's a f'n business.

Yea, besides dumbass employees and other stupid little shit they try to sell on you. But shit, i have an EB within a 2 minute drive from my house, and ive never.. ever.. ever had a problem with them. They dont try to sell extra crap to me, they really dont say dumbass shit.. plus it's convenient for me at least. Well that eb near me at least gets waaaaay more crap than most other EB stores ive seen.

If you don't like it, don't go. They're obviously doing something right or their business wouldn't be increasing while others are decreasing. The best way to get the most is to keep an eye out for deals and sales. They usually have decent trade promos going on and their "used-deal-of-the-week" is pretty cool. They had Fable II going for $35! Sounds good to me... and use the Edge card it actually really is worth it..

gamestop (to me) is like bestbuy, great to stop in and look at something before buying it (for much less) online.

so keep buying from them kids, so i can keep saving :)

Gamestop is fine for shopping for console games. However, the PC games section is near nonexistant, and is always in the back corner with very few games, mostly from EA. If you shop for PC games, look elsewhere, you're not the crowd they're catering to.

Also, I very much dislike their business practices. The most recent one being what they did to Demigod and releasing it a week ahead of the street date and allowing mass piracy to ensue, and clogging up the servers before they were ready. The guys at Stardock had to work over their holiday weekend to get things sorted out because of what had happened, and also got lower review ratings because of the clogged servers caused by...Gamestop's early release.

I can't say that I approve of them allowing their store workers to take out the games and play them, then put them back and selling them as "new."

One thing Gamestop almost never does is a sale. They are usually the last ones to drop the price of a game, and where I live, there's a really high sales tax, so I usually purchase from newegg, best buy, impulse or steam depending on the price. Best buy has game sales a lot of the time, but I don't think I've seen one on a PC game I purchase from them.

Gamestop may be all and well for a lot of people, but I simply do not believe they are even trying to cater to me.

It's not the used game sales that bother me, if the fact that every GameStop I've been to is so Microsoft skewed it's not even funny. I'd honestly find it hard to believe that Microsoft is not paying GameStop to pay it's employees to badmouth Sony.

Then you've got the employees that are just retarded as bricks regardless. I can't count the number of times I've perused a GameStop because nothing else in Fairbanks has the game I'm looking for, and ended up wanting to go on a fucking rampage with a Guitar Hero guitar beating the ever fucking living daylights out of every moron in the store.

/rant

Hi. We're in Delaware.

gamestop roc... err i mean sucks

Gamestop has my number.

While I try and support a local game shop as much as I can, I find myself buying from Gamestop more often simply because they secure exclusive bonuses like soundtracks or art books while the game still costs the same as everywhere else.

But Steam.

and? This data is completely meaningless without the breakdown of the remaining 79%.