{"id":6419,"date":"2009-07-31T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6419"},"modified":"2013-05-29T21:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:43:45","slug":"gamestop-casual-digital-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/gamestop-casual-digital-store\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Casual Digital Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8816\" alt=\"GameStop Casual Store-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/GameStop-Casual-Store-S.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"322\" \/>JULY 31, 2009 \u2022 The GameStop Casual Digital Store marks the retailer&#8217;s move to attract more mainstream consumers, as well as develop a larger market share in digital distribution. Casual customers will be treated to money-saving offers, free trials and streamlined search and checkout options, and pre-order priority. In addition, core PC titles will also be available.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: GameStop has been a leader in the brick and mortar retail business and has been one of the most high flying game retailers in recent years.\u00a0 However, GameStop&#8217;s very existence will be perilous as digital distribution becomes more prevalent.\u00a0 Physical retailers have a mixed bag when it comes to moving to the online world.\u00a0 Further complicating matters is GameStop&#8217;s dependence on the used game business which causes some conflict with the publishing community.\u00a0 It makes sense for GameStop to move into digital distribution, but the company&#8217;s success in this area is far from guaranteed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 31, 2009 \u2022 The GameStop Casual Digital Store marks the retailer&#8217;s move to attract more mainstream consumers, as well as develop a larger market share in digital distribution. Casual customers will be treated to money-saving offers, free trials and streamlined search and checkout options, and pre-order priority. In addition, core PC titles will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}