03-22-2012, 12:46 PM
(03-22-2012, 11:59 AM)Dazz Wrote: Games retail is supplied by supermarkets, and I would presume that it includes downloaded content from the likes of XBLA.
Not to mention all the rage in buying games from Amazon these days...
Well, there's figures to suggest that 70% of all video game sales are still physical media so lets take Steam, XBLA and origin out of the picture.
Sure you still have supermarkets and online retailers like play and amazon, but for a specialist store to have completely lost the loyalty of the community which it serves? That seems to me that they've forgotten that their customers instead focusing on the bottom line.
If even the novelty of getting a popular game at midnight on launch isn't enough to drive sales to GAME stores.. well, it speaks volumes, really.