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GameStop sees digital game offerings as good for the industry
"Retail globablly seems to be pretty strong, especially in the game industry. No matter what the economy is, no matter what the country is, if you’ve got a good game, it does well," he tells us. "In terms of where the industry’s going with digital, free-to-play etc, I personally don’t see it as cannibalistic. You’ll see a lot of articles giving the impression that a dollar spent on digital is a dollar lost from boxed product, and that’s absolutely not the case.
I see it really as being additive, people are still spending on boxed product, new titles are doing well. Last fall Call Of Duty, Assassin's Creed and all the big titles did better than the year before. But then on top of it there’s now a digital piece. EA and some of the other guys are starting to take those franchise and do things on Facebook or browser games, and we really see it helping the industry." - GameStop International executive vice president Mike Mauler
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I see it really as being additive, people are still spending on boxed product, new titles are doing well. Last fall Call Of Duty, Assassin's Creed and all the big titles did better than the year before. But then on top of it there’s now a digital piece. EA and some of the other guys are starting to take those franchise and do things on Facebook or browser games, and we really see it helping the industry." - GameStop International executive vice president Mike Mauler