| TheSource said: GameStop is the biggest retailer nationally for PS3 HW, Walmart is biggest retailer in the USA overall for hardware. |
Yeah I figured it had to be WallMart as number 1 for hardware.
What I wonder is if overall Gamestop is second or third ( Best Buy must be doing decent for hardware, especially as they probably picked up most of what used to be sold at Circuit City, now that that chain is gone). Best Buy sucks however for software and I predict their market share is going for drop even more for software now that they got into the used games business ( new title selection is going down the drain since they started to do used games, thank god i can order online with in store pick up).
Right now I buy at Best Buy because the reward zone program ( with silver, gamer's club and mastercard reward zone they are the cheapest most of the time on new titles) but if I had to pick my prefered retailer for video games it would have to be Amazon as they are by far the most competiitve on old new games( games that are new but have been out for a while) and they don't suffer from sucky inventory like others retailers...
As for Gamestop well I can't stand them trying to shove used games on customers all the time so they aren't getting a penny from me..( and I fit more with the best Buy crowd than with the gamestop teenager crowd lol ;))
If the PS4 comes with terrabyte HDD and all major titles release on PSN at same time as retail I am going full digital though...
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
