Notes:
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is expected to be the biggest retail game of the year by far based on preorders.
- Black Ops 4 is doing incredibly well, which GameStop thinks is due to the Battle Royale mode.
- Switch sales doubled over the course of the week after Nintendo's E3 showing, with Pokémon and especially Smash Bros seeing huge interest. There's also lots of demand for the Pokeball controller.
- GameStop expects the shift toward September/October instead of November releases to continue into the future because most publishers wanted to do it to enable deeper discounts on Black Friday, as opposed to just trying to dodge Red Dead.
- GameStop is positive on Games as a Service because their digital currency business is booming and is now over $1 billion a year. Multiplayer games also drive lots of controller and headset sales.
- GameStop expects we will see more game releases in the April through August window in the future due to how well games are doing outside traditional windows, but that it might take a few years for development schedules to match up with that due to how long games take to make.
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