Interesting Gamestop data that contradicts NPD April

[allthehoneys]

Ail said:

allthehoneys said:

Ail said:
I was actually surprised by my marketshare numbers so I just spent the time parsing BestBuy 4th quarter results ( sadly not same period, it's Jan-Feb-March whereas Gamestore has weird Feb-March-April).
It's hard to dig into Best Buy numbers as they don't separate DVD and CD from gaming.

But for that 3 month period they have roughly 2.3 Billion of US revenue for Gaming +DVD +CDs. For the same period Gamestop would be roughly around 1.5 billions for US revenue ( take or add 100 or 200 millions).

In the end if you remove DVD and CD for BestBuy and used games for Gamestop I woudn't be surprised if their marketshare were quite close from each others....

 You conveniently forget that a large portion of Gamestop's revenue is from used game sales.

Read again, besides the whole marketshare comparison was done on data concerning strictly sales of NEW hardware as was mentioned several times in this thread...

 

I missed that part, but it's a big assumption none-the-less.  I think it's a better indicator to go by actual week-to-week shipments to stores and use the total number of locations to try and determine how many shipments they are probably getting in total.