Breaking down the numbers a bit further, Nintendo was the biggest winner with 21% of all sales flowing through the house that Mario built. Sony took second with 17%, Microsoft following closely behind at 16% and bringing up the tail is third-party giant EA with 11%. Perhaps even less shocking is the reason that GameStop gives for the larger-than-average sales numbers from the first party publishers, “Due to our strong relationships with the manufacturers of these platforms, we often receive disproportionately large allocations of new release hardware products.”

As is customary, GameStop had to let us know that they’re still making money off of our own stupidity by sighting that their second-hand market is stronger than ever. Their number show that they offer 3000 used software titles, compared with just 1000 new titles. If you take into account the fact that they pay the bare minimum for customer trade-ins and turn around and sell the very same game for 2 or 3 times as much, you can see where the money is being made.