Ail on 22 May 2008
| Zucas said: Gamestop hardware sales equal less than 10% of the entire market. Hell it's probalby less than 5%. The big sellers are Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy. I doubt there numbers really affect anything. They could sell out of all the shipments they got when GTA IV released and still it would give a significant overall increase. I mean I love the enthusiasm and we all are surprised at GTA IV's minimal effects but this is just sad. |
NPD doesn't cover Wallmart so...
Total US hardware sales for February-March-April are 1.45 billion $.
Total new hardware sales for Gamestop for the same period are 339 million$.
Gamestop operates 5400 stores around 4000 of which are located in the US.
So roughly 75% of their hardware revenue come from the US that is 254 million$.
That would give them a 17.5% marketshare for the new console business, quite significant and a lot more than 5% some guestimated...
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
