• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The move to digital sales is killing their business model.

    They can’t buy and re-sell used digital games.

    Pre-orders on digital content can be done through the respective app stores.

    Gamepass renders the buy, sell, re-buy consumer behavior irrelevant.

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      7 months ago

      I mean, all that was intentional…

      But this was a dying business years ago, it was propped up by a few people who made a shit ton of money and a whole bunch of idiots they convinced to hold the bag.

      GameStop was never going to last long, it was just delayed

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        7 months ago

        It should have ended years ago, it’s a crap company who were annoying to do business with, it became a meme and got to live a few extra years. But I say good riddance

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        7 months ago

        It could if they were willing to modify their business model. They could have leaned into the game merchandise more but relying on used game sales was never going to be sustainable.