GameStop DD: AMFE only has exclusivity in Canada, but they are expanding into other countries... The US is a huge market and its crowded with distributors, so i dont think anyone has "exclusivity" in the USA on these titles. Canada is different. Its has about the same pop as California (10% of USA pop)
Snakes is the top dog in Canada, so there is no reason for some of these designers to do biz with these other boring distributors. Snakes is going to dominate the 9 figure Canadian table gaming market imo. No one else has the perfect venue to test/launch/market a new table game. Even Nintendo is knocking on our door!
As they expand into the USA, they could one day be a major player there as well. They could purchase one or more distributors and gain an instant foothold... I dont think any of the others are a PUBLIC company and none of them have board game cafes, so one day these distributors could jump at the chance to be a part of AMFE
Keep in mind that Snakes has partnerships wth USA distributors and there might not be any restrictions with Snakes fulfilling ALL of the Gamestop locations. If they land the deal, they could work it out to be their only supplier, worldwide... and GameStop could buy 100's of different titles (which Snakes has), in bulk...
Gamestop ALONE could be worth $50,000,000+ in game sales for AMFE... This sounds like a lot, but the locations are always in high traffic areas and to achieve that figure, they would only need to sell $7,000 worth of games, per location/year... Thats nothing!
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