GameStop Controls 21% of US Retail Videogame Market, Report Estimates
The study only accounts for hardware and software sales, and does not break down the 79% competitor figure to show whether GameStop is far in the lead over retail rivals such as Wal-Mart.
However, the data does show that GameStop's market share in countries outside of the US is ramping up quickly. The retailer grew 67 percent in Europe over its last fiscal year.
In the realm of strange factoids, the report also shows that Delaware has the highest concentration of GameStop stores of any state, at 2.18 stores per 100,000 citizens.
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If publishers and developers are so enraged over used game sales, they should drop the price of their games within 1 month to reduce used game sales. I think if developers pushed MS and Sony to include larger HD's with their consoles and helped subsidize the cost for them, they could release their AAA games via digital distribution first (say first month) so people can purchase it online and then later on sell a boxed copy at a lower price to Gamestop. This would probably cut down on used game sales in the long run as the general public would start gravitating towards downloaded games.
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I'd be down for this. I used to like having a physical collection but the more I think about it the less I want that thing to grow to look like this: http://www.kombo.com/images/content/misc/digitaldownloads_02.jpg
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I used to not care about Gamestop and even used them quite a bit to get rid of old crap. I don't like many of their practices is all. Buying a game for a few bucks then turning around and selling it for 3-4x that. That's business, but it's also pretty shitty. Some of their markups are ridiculous. As someone here said the other day, they were selling Fallout 3 360 USED for $55. That is fucking ludicrous. I also don't care for the way they've abandoned PC gaming almost entirely in most areas. And some of the ones that do open the boxes and keep the discs elsewhere so you don't know what you are getting, or if it is actually new with a working key and the like.
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It might just be a Canadian thing. I usually don't get hassled when I go in to them either and the people that work there seem to know enough about the games they're selling to strike up casual yet interesting conversation about them.
What I'm not a fan of is their practice of opening the case but selling the items as new. I try to ask for unopened games in this case.
Now having said all of this I only step into EB under two conditions, seeing as how they're usually on the more expensive side of prices and refuse to price match. 1) The game is selling for the same price everywhere else. Otherwise Amazon.ca is usually the cheapest and I just print up the listing, take it to FutureShop and get it pricematched +10% off the difference. 2) I have gift certificates for EB.
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