{"id":7829,"date":"2012-01-09T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7829"},"modified":"2018-07-16T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:58:31","slug":"game-sales-flat-gamestop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/game-sales-flat-gamestop\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Game Sales Flat at GameStop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12267\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12267\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12267 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/hmv-logo-S-e1427434077673.jpg\" alt=\"U.K. retailer HMV may be cutting back on games.\" width=\"390\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.K. retailer HMV may be cutting back on games.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JAN. 9, 2012 \u2022 For the nine week period ending Dec. 31, retailer GameStop reported that overall sales were flat at $3.02 billion, compared to the same period last year. Game software sales did grow to 10% to $1.47 billion, but game hardware sales dropped 20%. Other growth areas included digital sales (60%), and used games (3.5%). In the U.K., music, video and game retailer HMV saw its total sales for the same nine week period drop 9.8%. While DVD sales remained flat, video game sales dropped 16%. HMV said it is considering the scaling back of floor space devoted to games, in favor of stocking a handful of best-selling new titles. Games currently represent 20% of the retailer&#8217;s stock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: This is clearly the tale of two very different retailers.\u00a0 Having a 10% increase in software sales for the holiday season is impressive in the current environment.\u00a0 Specialty game retailers are clearly at an advantage when it comes to maximizing sales.\u00a0 A more diverse retailer like HMV is in a challenging position.\u00a0 They compete with the mass merchants on price and at the same time compete with the specialty stores on selection.\u00a0 In some respects it is a no-win situation.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAN. 9, 2012 \u2022 For the nine week period ending Dec. 31, retailer GameStop reported that overall sales were flat at $3.02 billion, compared to the same period last year. Game software sales did grow to 10% to $1.47 billion, but game hardware sales dropped 20%. Other growth areas included digital sales (60%), and used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,168,78],"tags":[84,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16505,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/16505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}