While GameStop is the number one brick-and-mortar retailer devoted exclusively to games of any publisher, five companies comprised 75 percent of their non-used sales in 2009. In an SEC report uncovered by GameSpot, Nintendo is leading the way at 23 percent (diminished from 25 percent the year before) followed by Sony at 17 percent, Microsoft and EA with 12 percent each and Activision reaching double digit sales with the retailer for the first time at 11 percent.
The top 10 business partners with GameStop accounted for 85 percent of sales in fiscal 2009, up from 80 percent during the past two years. In fiscal 2006, the share of the top 10 companies GameStop worked with was only 65 percent.
Additionally, GameStop also cited NPD data in saying that the total installed base for consoles and handhelds is 220 million in the U.S. as of December 2009, of which 112 million are “current gen.” Nintendo was leading the way with the DS (38.6 million) and Wii (27.1 million), followed by Microsoft's Xbox 360 (18.6 million). Sony's PSP was at 16.8 million, while the PS3 is at 11.1 million.
2 Comments
March 31, 2010
Kind of dangerous to be relying on such a low number of publishers... especially if one of them shifts to more direct sales via digital distribution.
GameStop... the Blockbuster of tomorrow...
March 31, 2010
I pretty much agree. I've been saying GameStop's days are numbered for a while now. It could take another 5 years or so, but I just don't see them successfully transitioning to digital.