No Nintendo for GAME -- sales are up, but shortages suck
by Phil Larsen 
{ Jul 3rd 2008 at 11:45AM }
Those purple folk at the GAME Group (a prominent games retailer) have released European sales details for the first half of 2008, and it's looking pretty good. Group sales are up 54 percent, with like-for-like sales up 28.4 percent. Like-for-like is such a dumb term. Reminds us of these things.Anyway, despite the strong performance of the group as a whole, the constant shortage of Nintendo products has left a gap in the big fat bricks of cash they're raking in. Well, the UK and Ireland are doing okay, but international performance isn't as high -- "particularly in Spain." Those wacky Spaniards and their neverending lust for technology! Total international sales were up 43.9 percent, with like-for-like (arrgh!) sales on the low end of the scale at 16.9 percent.
GAME will be opening 60 new stores before the end of the year, so if you aren't familiar with that big, neon purple logo, you soon will be.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Finde @ Jul 3rd 2008 1:13PM
The reason they're doing so well might have something to do with their virtual monopoly over the British high street for games.
Jayenkai @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:07PM
By "Opening New" they probably mean "Rebranding Gamestation stores"
*sigh*