wraggster
September 19th, 2015, 22:18
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Perhaps more than any other retailer, Gamestop has serious clout (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/08/gamestop-exclusive-content/) when it comes to selling video games. The retail chain makes money hand over fist on game trade-ins and the resulting used game sales, and in an effort to protect that, it's made an edict that it'll only sell bundles that include a physical disc rather than a download code. In a shareholders call (https://s.t.st/media/xtranscript/2015/Q3/13269885.pdf) (PDF), chief operating officer Tony Bartel specifically cited the current Madden '16 Xbox One bundle (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-xbox-one-madden-nfl-16-bundle-black/4255900.p?id=1219714312944&skuId=4255900). Rather than carrying the official deal, the company worked to offer a free physical copy of the annual football title with the purchase of a PlayStation 4 (http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/14/sony-playstation-4-review/) orXbox One (http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/20/microsoft-xbox-one-review/), refusing to stock the digital bundle at all.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/18/gamestop-wont-sell-consoles-bundled-with-digital-games/
Perhaps more than any other retailer, Gamestop has serious clout (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/08/gamestop-exclusive-content/) when it comes to selling video games. The retail chain makes money hand over fist on game trade-ins and the resulting used game sales, and in an effort to protect that, it's made an edict that it'll only sell bundles that include a physical disc rather than a download code. In a shareholders call (https://s.t.st/media/xtranscript/2015/Q3/13269885.pdf) (PDF), chief operating officer Tony Bartel specifically cited the current Madden '16 Xbox One bundle (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-xbox-one-madden-nfl-16-bundle-black/4255900.p?id=1219714312944&skuId=4255900). Rather than carrying the official deal, the company worked to offer a free physical copy of the annual football title with the purchase of a PlayStation 4 (http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/14/sony-playstation-4-review/) orXbox One (http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/20/microsoft-xbox-one-review/), refusing to stock the digital bundle at all.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/18/gamestop-wont-sell-consoles-bundled-with-digital-games/