Interesting Gamestop data that contradicts NPD April

[Ail]

bdbdbd said:

Sqrl said:

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.

It could be the case but I have been very conservative in assuming 4k out of 5400 gamestops are in the US. In reality it looks like it's more than 4100 and of the remaining 1300 over sea shops 10% were opened during the quarter and probably didn't contribute a full quarter to the revenue ( 105 shops out of the 5400 were opened oversea in that quarter).

This would be a tonn easier if companies all reported financial data the same way.

Best Buy separates International from US but doesn't separate gaming from DVDs and CDs, even less gaming hardware from software.

Gamestop separates hardware from software but doesn't separate international from US...