More and more users are opting for the digital version of video games. This entails a series of benefits far beyond not having a piece of plastic on top of a shelf from which we have to periodically remove the dust. For example, with digital games we can play from 00.01:XNUMX on launch day, and on many occasions we take advantage of great discounts. Nevertheless, This is also having an effect on video game retailers, one example is GameStop, which will soon close more than 100 stores around the world.
It's not much, especially if we consider that it has around 7.500 stores, so these closures would represent approximately 3 percent of the total. According The Wall Street Journal, the company has been seriously affected by the decline in sales in 2016, something they have never hidden. Total sales are down approximately 16 percent from the total recorded in previous years, which has represented a decrease in the Christmas campaign of 19% in income compared to 2015, and the corresponding drop in the stock market of around 12% in 2016, it seems that physical stores focused on video games have less and less room for maneuver.
However, other business sectors are growing, such as collecting. But we cannot forget that not even the huge sales of Nintendo Switch manage to make GameStop executives smile. Curiously, business is worse than ever, especially if we take into account that we are in "the gamer era", and we cannot hide the fact that more and more people are playing games, Sony gives good faith of this, since its best-selling device and that it brings the most benefits is precisely the PlayStation 4 and its derivatives in the form of hardware, software and services.
Michael Stiven Alzate Palace