Interesting Gamestop data that contradicts NPD April

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bdbdbd said:

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Zucas said:
I'm willing to admit I'm wrong but I would be absolutely shocked if this turned out true. I mean Wal-Mart is about 40% of the market. It as least 20x as large of a company as Gamestop with a hell of a lot more stocks from the companies than GS. And to think GS could even be close to half of the revenue would be shocking.

I was surprised too, but there aren't any apparent problems with the comparison to me so unless someone can point one out I don't see why I should ignore it...it wouldn't be the first or last time I was wrong about an assumption.

And frankly you were right about it not being terribly important so I don't really plan to think about it too much =P

 

How come nobody thought this before. Different priced products, sold at different currency zones at different volumes. When Ails calculation on Gamestops US revenue was based on the percentage of stores in the US.

Well first we don't have the data to fill in the gap so the assumption that its uniform does take away some of the accuracy but in that regard it has just as much chance to increase the percentage as lowering it.  

I'm not saying there aren't shortcomings to how he approached it but I still don't see anything that plainly says the percentage is too high or too low.