The business and marketing world is a very risky and difficult career. You don’t know what decisions can drastically change your entire company. I will be talking about the fact that Gamestop can possibly go down the same hill as BlockBuster. Now a days, everyone is always talking about the new video games and how they are willing to wait outside of the store until the game gets released. The good thing is that with all of the new technology, they won’t have to suffer the long waits. Gamestop was very popular from 2003-2010 until Playstation came up with a new idea called “Digital Download”. This allows the gamers to purchase the video game ahead of time and you receive it the moment it comes out. You don’t have to wait at all, that's the great thing. Also, you don’t have …show more content…
Gamestop is big on having events for game releases. For example when Mortal Kombat came out years ago they had an event where they had pamphlets giving people cheats and information to other individuals about the game. They also gave away stuff to promote the game. Although that was around the time that Gamestop was popular so they had all of the money and hype to do these events. I have asked several people about their opinion on Gamestop and they all have said negative things. One person was even surprised that they were still in business. This wasn't necessarily Gamestops fault because every store dies down after a while. This was the actions of their customers. All that Gamestop can do is continue to sell their products. There are 3 times when Gamestop gets most of their customers. Those 3 times are during Christmas, gamer conventions, and Black Friday. It isn’t like Gamestop isn't making any money, they just don’t make as much as they used to. If they shut it down there can be a possibility that some people complain but that is not likely. People go to Bestbuy and Walmart, they have reasonable prices and they offer more