Why do most games have more longevity in sales (legs) in Europe than in the US?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

S.Peelman said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

(Answering both of you.)

I do wonder what the concentration of used game stores in Europe is, because where I am they are everywhere.  I like in a city with a greater metropolitan area of about 530k.  We have 7 Gamestops and a similar number of small businesses that sell used games.  That is about one used game store for every 38k people.  (I am excluding pawn shops and thrift stores which usually only have a handful of games each.)  This seems like a lot to me, but perhaps it is that way everywhere?

(We also used to have even more Gamestops than this but a couple of them closed down recently.)

Probably wayyy lower.

Obviously I can only speak for my immediate area; I myself live in The Netherlands in a city of about 650k, and there are just two stores in the entire city of the chain I mentioned earlier. Used to be three, but I guess one wasn’t having enough customers. Then, broadening the scope a bit, the immediate urban area of all adjacent towns has a population of over a million, 1.1m maybe 1.2m, but there’s still only two more stores. So I guess that’s one store for like 250-300k people. Toy stores sell games as well, and there are a lot of those, and so does Media Mart, a big electronics store, but they all only sell new.

Yeah, that sounds like a lot less.  (Again we are only comparing my city to yours, so this is just anecdotal at this point.)  I also was only counting used game stores.  Every Walmart, Target, and Best Buy also sell new games here.  Walmarts are all over the place.  Toys R Us used to sell new games also, but they just went out of business due to poor management.

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 31 August 2018