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Maybe if Gamestop pivots to e-commerce they can eventually come up with some way that you could buy a game online and have it delivered fully digitally, without
by rspeele 6y ago
Maybe if Gamestop pivots to e-commerce they can eventually come up with some way that you could buy a game online and have it delivered fully digitally, without even having to wait for shipping. Especially if they had vendor lock-in, where the games you've purchased digitally are available to you on any device -- but only through your GameStop account. Every time you log into your GameStop account to play the games you've purchased you would see the front page of their store with all the new games they've listed and the sales they're promoting.
That business model could really be worth $20B. It would be huge. Like what Netflix did to BlockBuster, but for video games.
- gruez 6y agoBut what's going to be their platform? Consoles? Doubt it, the manufacturers have a lockdown on the platform. PC? They might be able to enter, but they're going to have their work cut out for them considering there's steam, epic, and a plethora of first-party launchers (eg. origin or uplay).
- sjg007 6y agoGamestop could build out a cloud gaming service like Stadia as one possible way to do it.
- tedunangst 6y ago(Spoiler: that is steam.)
- triangleman 6y agoLOL, I see what you did there
- anonymouse008 6y agoBut what about the antitrust issues!?
- redisman 6y agoThey're only 20 years too late on that. We now have huge established players who do that already very well. Steam and Xbox, Playstation, AppStore, Epic Store, all platforms already have a good store and a bunch of second and third tier stores. We also already have commoditized the "CD-key" reseller space with G2A and a hundred others.