Friday, March 25, 2011

Record sales for Gamestop

The retailer Gamestop has announced that it has closed the fiscal year ended January 29 last year with record sales, or 9.47 billion dollars, and $ 408 million profit. The results represent an increase of 4.3% and 8 .1% from the previous fiscal year, as reported by GamesIndustry. Also up the business of digital games for PC and console, +61% over the previous year, totaling $ 290 million.

"In 2011 our innovations in e-commerce, and the system offers digital PowerUp Rewards have enabled us to achieve this record," says the CEO of the company, Raines Pail. 1.7 billion dollars were generated from the sale of new hardware, instead of $ 3.97 billion turnover are related to the sale of new software (41.9% of the total).

2.47 billion dollars, then, Gamestop has been received from the sale of used games.

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