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GameStop posted a 4.6% drop in sales for the nine weeks ending December 29, with global sales reaching $2.88 billion. Year-over-year sales declined 4.4 %, with US sales down 3.5% over the year prior, with international sales falling 6.4%. Hardware sales were down by 2.7% despite Wii U being around for the holidays and moving 320,000 units. New software sales fell 5.1%, while pre-owned software fell by 15.6%, a figure GameStop blamed on limited inventory “due to fewer new titles released throughout 2012 and less promotional activity negatively impacted sales compared to last year”. Digital sales, however, were up 40% year-over-year, and the firm’s global e-commerce sales were up 20.5%. Thanks, MCV.

Peter Moore feels packages goods will see a resurgence when the next-generation of gaming consoles arrive on the market.

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THQ EVP Jason Rubin believes the industry will eventually move away from retail, as the digital space is more of a level playing field than boxed goods.

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SCEE’s new release manager Robert Walker has said consumer desire for digital content has helped grow the sales of full console titles, which has led Sony to make its titles as “accessible as possible”.

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EA’s EVP of digital, Kristian Segerstrale, believes the transition to digital will change how games are developed and even managed, especially as companies eventually lose dependence on retail, much like the film and music industries.

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Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation has said digital downloads now make up more than half of PC games sold in the US and UK.

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GameStop CEO Paul Raines has told Vox Games that it wouldn’t be console manufacturer’s best interest to shut it out over used game sales as the retailers relationship with customers is “deep and sticky enough” to warrant continued business.

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Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester is of the opinion open platforms such as PC, mobile, and social networks will continue to thrive in the future, while box products decline as the next generation of consoles will “probably be the last.”

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GameStop boss Mike Mauler believes the digital games market will hit $35 billion by 2014, which is a 75% growth over the next two years.

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According to research firm DFC Intelligence, digital sales of games will surpass that of retail by 2013.

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GAME has announced the availability of in-store digital games in 1,200 of its worldwide stores, after a successful trial at its UK locations.

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EA Sports’ senior vice president of worldwide development, Andrew Wilson, has said the firm will continue to release boxed games as long as it continues to be a viable business. However, he doesn’t feel consumers shopping at GAME and GameStop stores as much today as in the past.

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According to Gamer Segmentation 2011: The New Faces of Gamers, the latest report from US data monitor NPD, Core Gamers, once considered to be the leading gaming segment, is facing rising competition from “Digital Gamers” for amount of time spent gaming and number of games acquired.

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Nintendo of Europe’s MD of marketing and PR, Laurent Fischer, has said that those who believe the end is nigh for packaged software “don’t share the same daily reality as most consumers.”

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GameStop digital business GM Shawn Freeman has said that the company is looking to link its GameStop ID program with online accounts – PSN, Xbox Live – to help cut the “friction” out of purchasing map packs with the store and imputing the long codes.

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EA’s CFO Eric Brown has said revenue from PC and DLC is important to the company, and it’s new goal is for a forty-sixty digital split between digital and physical revenue.

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PlayStation head Kaz Hirai has said PSP go had a market, but it just wasn’t as large as that enjoyed by PSP-3000.

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EA founder Trip Hawkins has predicted console exclusivity and consoles in general will become a thing of the past as more publishers get on board with Cloud-gaming.

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