Game Retailers Make Money On The Margins

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 3, 2006 @11:52AM from the sell-those-cartridges dept.

This week's Escapist deals entirely with the business of selling games, and the article A Marginal Business details how EB and Gamestop make their money. From the article: "'Used games are keeping the entire ship afloat,' a vice-president of marketing for Electronics Boutique tells me. 'EB and GameStop make basically no money from new product.' No money from new product? But everybody knows the retailers are the real profiteers of the interactive entertainment industry, brutally extracting marketing development funds and ruthlessly returning product in the name of the all-mighty dollar. Right?"

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Re:I'm pretty sure... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-03 14:09 · Score: -1, Troll

"When EB or GameStop take your used game, you are, in effect, the supplier, and they pay you for it. They just mark it up a lot higher."
No fucking shit Captain Obvious. You must be a lot of fun at parties dickweed. I would so love to kick in your teeth right now.