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

[Ail]

sethnintendo said:

spurgeonryan said:
sethnintendo: (they should still know that quality sells).
Even though Nintendo does not always have 9 & 10 rated games, they are so consistent that the occasional blip is hardly noticeable. In other words if that was not clear...I agree. I should have just quoted instead of writing out your user name.

I just realized I didn't even touch on the digital distribution in my initial post.  I believe that eventually might make Gamestop close a decent amount of their stores but that won't probably happen till a few more generations (so I just stuck with what companies are doing now to discourage used game sales (the online and now single player pass).  I think I've read about 5-10 articles just this week that was in the technology sector on Google news talking about DRM and player passes.  Every article it seems to have nothing but negative comments towards those companies.  Seems like the major video game companies are out of touch with their consumers.  Most businesses usually try and please their consumers not piss them off.  I expect more mergers and bankruptcies for the next generation due to video game companies being out of touch with their costumer base.

 

Do you realize that it took the Kindle less than 5 years to make the 500 years old book industry explode ?

And e-books sales are still a tiny part of overall book sales...

And book lovers are a lot more enamoured of their physical copies than gamers ( because they actually very often go back and reread old copies).

 

There are a lot of things Sony and MS can do to accelerate digital sales too once their next gen console is more adapted for it ( terrabyte HDD for starters, consoles not selling at a loss so not to be so dependant on retailers ( right now there is a kind of unspoken agreement where retailers agree on lower margins on hardware because they know they make it up on software, with the digital sales, console makers are going to have to raise the retailers margins on consoles as they won't be able to sell them on software sales offsetting those).