There are frankly too many of them in my local area. Have four of them in a space could drive from any one of them to another in ten-fifteen minutes. Getting rid of two of them makes sense.

I think this is a good thing. Gamestop overexpanded and other retailers such as Amazon & Best Buy offer much better deals for video games. Hopefully, this gives Gamestop the kick in the rear to improve.

While I don't shop at Gamestop anyways, it is not good news when a retailer that mainly sells video game is doing badly.. they probably over-expanded, but still is a bit worrying

RTU has been harping on this since I started watching his video years ago. lol

Gamestop is a tough sell with the Best Buy and Amazon savings on new games. I haven't paid $60 for a game since 2015, and the savings are enough that I no longer feel the need to trade anything in. Gamestop is now the more expensive option, and their customer experience tends to be awful. It sounds like they're still doing fine, but I can see them needing to cut down and diversify in order to maintain their relevance (also maybe don't have 2 Gamestops in a single mall as they did in my area until a few months ago. You could literally walk fifty feet from one to get into the other, the most pointless waste of space I've seen). 

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So 225 stores being closed is 3% of all of their stores or 5% of their stores in US.

What I'd pull from this is that their growth has stalled over many years now and they are removing the dead weight. Its clear that is true from the other actions they've taken over the last, idk, 10 years maybe. Where they've branched well beyond just gaming and added other types of electronics, aggressive used game policies, and what seems like half of their floor space is with merchandise only loosely related to games if at all.