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GAME Digital - Video games retailer to benefit from new console launches

December 2014

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Ever since Sony’s original Playstation game console launched in 1994/95 and sold over 100 million systems worldwide, video gaming has become a mass market pastime but while investing in this industry has typically been a roller coaster experience there have been times when share prices have literally taken off. One example is Game, the UK’s largest video games retailer, which soared from 80p to 300p between 2006-2008 after it expanded its store estate on the back of a sales frenzy associated with the launch of three new gaming consoles. Although Game subsequently fell victim to the recession and increased competition, its recovery from administration has been remarkably swift, with a near halving in its UK store estate in ord ...

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