GameStop Suits Up To Battle New Rivals

摘要

GameStop is a fast-growing retail chain specializing in sales of entertainment software, where users often battle to the death. Now it's fighting for its own survival. Within weeks, consumer-electronics retailer Best Buy hopes to take a hammer to GameStop's highly profitable used-games business by launching a similar service. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, and other game developers are expanding digital delivery of add-ons, which are mini-sequels to games, reducing the need for people to visit GameStop's stores. "If they don't act now, ultimately it puts them out of business," says games analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities.