GameStop Posts Substantial Sales Jump in FY2007, Named World's Fastest Growing Retailer

March 18, 2008 1:15 PM

Video games retailer GameStop saw a 33% sales increase to a record $7.1 billion in the company's 2007 fiscal year, Gamasutra reports.

Officials from the company reported a $288.3M profit in its full financial year, a roughly 58% increase over its $158.3M profit in 2006. Sales figures in GameStop's fourth quarter saw a 46.2% increase, with profits from the holiday season accounting for $189.8M of the year's total.

In a drill-down of the data, GameStop noted that it sold roughly 546 million used video game products in its 2007 fiscal year, accounting for roughly 19% of total sales. Meanwhile, total revenue from used products clocked in at $262.2M, which represented 48% of the company's 2007 revenue.

The company was also named as the world's fastest growing retailer in the Fortune 500, with the opening of 586 new stores around the globe.

Reflecting data reported by the sales tracking firm NPD earlier this year, the company said that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4, Harmonix's Rock Band, Ubisoft's AssassinÂ’s Creed, Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy and Neversoft's Guitar Hero III were its five best selling games during the period.

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Mad Brahmin Disease

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March 18, 2008 1:32 PM

Could all publishers go the digital distribution way so GameStop dies already?
- spaceless
  
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  March 18, 2008 1:42 PM
  
  dear developers, i would glady give you money for a steam game over a copy of a retail box
  - Schnapple
    
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    March 18, 2008 3:23 PM
    
    not to start this argument again but do you want to pay less for that Steam game as well?
- Vincent Grayson
  
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  March 18, 2008 3:41 PM
  
  Wouldn't make much of a difference until it happened with consoles. Best I can tell, GameStop sells even less PC titles now than they did when I worked there, and even then only maybe 5% of our new title sales were PC.