While GameStop are the most high-profile specialist games retailer, games are sold in a lot of other places. Department stores. Electronics stores. Online. Convenient stores, even. So how big is GameStop’s share of the market?
Well, according to some research done by Gamasutra, in [[link]] the United [[link]] States the chain controls 21% of the games market (excluding accessories & PC software, whose data was “impossible to extract without resorting to outright guesswork”). That’s…well, it’s not anywhere near as high as I’d have thought.
You can check out the full report [[link]] below, which reveals the number of stores per 100,000 Americans, and the fact that the state with the highest density of GameStop stores is…Delaware.
In Depth: GameStop Controls 21 Percent Of U.S. Game Market [Gamasutra]