{"id":80068,"date":"2017-03-24T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T19:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=80068"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:05:15","slug":"as-digital-marketplaces-become-norm-gamestop-feels-the-crunch","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/as-digital-marketplaces-become-norm-gamestop-feels-the-crunch","title":{"rendered":"As Digital Marketplaces Become Norm, GameStop Feels the Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more consumers are not buying physical copies of games, even for their physical consoles\u2014they&#8217;re simply downloading them from the internet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cheaper and more convenient for players, but brick-and-mortar retailers are feeling the pinch. GameStop is a shining example: a business built almost exclusively on selling physical copies of games.<\/p>\n<p>Sales are falling in the double-digit range and the company&#8217;s stock has been halved in less than two years. As a result, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestop.com\">GameStop<\/a> plans to close more than 150 stores this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop&#8217;s plan to stop the bleeding isn&#8217;t just to bolster ecommerce, but to rethink physical experiences. The company&#8217;s collectibles business is growing and actually intends to add more collectible stores.<\/p>\n<p>The company isn&#8217;t in danger yet\u2014it remains profitable and generates sales in the billions of dollars\u2014but the shift shows that no business is immune to digital disruption.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/03\/11\/esports-2016-03-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more consumers are not buying physical copies of games, even for their physical consoles\u2014they&#8217;re simply downloading them from the internet. It&#8217;s cheaper and more convenient for players, but brick-and-mortar retailers are feeling the pinch. GameStop is a shining example: a business built almost exclusively on selling physical copies of games. Sales are falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":80070,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[134,176,174,175],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-80068","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-digital","tag-disruption","tag-gaming","tag-transformation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/80068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/80068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/80070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80068"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=80068"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=80068"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=80068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}