Barkley said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
This seems like the sort of service which will make good money in the short term and kill them off in the long term.
Who are they competing with in a service like this? Gamestop. But Gamestop is, in theory, their business partner. All of those Gamestop stores out there provide so much free and effective marketing for Sony products. And yet PS NOW threatens to kill off Gamestop. Not smart business. |
Surely digital games are more of a threat to GameStop than psnow? With the digital ratio climbing continually these past years.
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Digitial in general, both purchase and rental, and killing GameStop.
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Barkley said:
Surely digital games are more of a threat to GameStop than psnow? With the digital ratio climbing continually these past years.
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Yes, those are a big threat too. To me it's all competing with GameStop and therefore a bad idea.
I mean, I am sure it is making them good money now. But one day GameStop will be very small or totally out of business. And then Sony is going to be asking where their customers went. (All of this applies to Microsoft too.)
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Blockbuster was killed by digital distribution of movies. Almost all record stores were killed by digital distribution of music. Those industry all adapted, and the major players in movie and music production and distribution are still the major players.
