GameStop Holiday sales: US$ 1.7 billion and counting
In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life” Zuzu Bailey says “Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” But in stores and malls everywhere, every time the cash register goes cha-ching a sale is made. For GameStop, the recent holiday shopping spree sent its cash register ringing to the tune of more than US$ 1.7 billion.
That’s over US$ 1.7 billion made within the nine week period, beginning Black Friday, where everyone seems to be afflicted with the shopping madness.
GameStop says some of the sales were generated by the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360. But it was definitely the year of the DS with 918,000 units sold in November.
On the game side, GameStop listed the following titles as best-selling items:
- Gears of War
- Final Fantasy XII
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Guitar Hero II
- WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007
According to GameStop digits, total holiday sales in 2006 was up by a full 29% compared to 2005. And that, we suppose, is the best gift GameStop got for Christmas.
In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life” Zuzu Bailey says “Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” But in stores and malls everywhere, every time the cash register goes cha-ching a sale is made. For GameStop, the recent holiday shopping spree sent its cash register ringing to the tune of more than US$ 1.7 billion.
That’s over US$ 1.7 billion made within the nine week period, beginning Black Friday, where everyone seems to be afflicted with the shopping madness.
GameStop says some of the sales were generated by the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360. But it was definitely the year of the DS with 918,000 units sold in November.
On the game side, GameStop listed the following titles as best-selling items:
- Gears of War
- Final Fantasy XII
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Guitar Hero II
- WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007
According to GameStop digits, total holiday sales in 2006 was up by a full 29% compared to 2005. And that, we suppose, is the best gift GameStop got for Christmas.
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