Is gamestop and other game retailers doomed? "update" Holiday 2011 sales!

[Mr Khan]

Ail said:
Yes they are, it's inevitable although in the case of Gamestop they are accelerating it.

Check Gamestop latest quaterly earnings report.
They made more money out of used games sales than new games sales and they are the number 1 retailer for video games in the US.

Publishers are getting more and more fed up with this ( a retailer shouldn't be more money out of a game than the people making the game) and the nail in the coffin won't be online pass, it's going to be digital sales.

I predict that next gen 90%+ of the game will be available as a digital purchase on day one at a reduced priced compared to retail.
And once over 50% of the sales have moved to digital the lower retail volumes will kill the stores...( the same way digital books just killed Border and they still represent less than 20% of overall book sales...)

I'd be willing to bet that, for the Wii U at least, no retail game will ever be made available as a digital purchase. I mean this is already happening on other platforms, but Nintendo will keep that total takeover from happening in this coming generation, as they are dragged into the future kicking and screaming yet again...