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Old 03-19-10, 09:36 PM   #76
NefariousKoel
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Originally Posted by Ducimus View Post
Walk into your local games or electronics shop lately? especially Gamestop or EB Games? I don't even bother anymore. Its all console, and a few token PC gams now.

Most brick and mortar stores are 80% console games now. The PC games are always on some back rack. It's feels like your walking into the XXX section in a video store.

If whats on the self is any indicator, PC games are indeed on their way out, and have been for some time.
No, it's not an indicator. A vast majority of PC game purchases are done via digital download or ordered via web and shipped directly. From the article someone posted not long ago, it's gone up some since last year.

As an indicator of that, my brother-in-law related a story to me of asking a clerk at a Gamestop a couple months ago where all their PC games were. The clerk looked at him, with wonder and shock, and told him 'everyone buys those online now'.
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