| RolStoppable said: Yes, I read it. But apparently you didn't read my post because you thought the portion you cut off wasn't relevant. Here's what you deleted: Last year we had a thread about the Austrian retailer Gameware who stopped selling Xbox consoles after the announcement of Gamepass. They have no interest in selling a box that might not net them any money from software sales. They continue to sell Xbox games, but they leave it to other retailers to work with the very slim margins on console sales. Xxain made the argument that retailers won't stop selling consoles when console manufacturers make efforts to remove retailers from game sales, but there's already an example of a retailer who stopped selling Xbox consoles because of that. Retailers make fewer $ on the sale of a console than they make on the sale of a physical game despite the MSRP of a console being significantly higher than the MSRP of a game. When retailers look at a situation where they'd have to allocate a lot of shelf space to a product that doesn't net them a good return (such as a customer purchasing a console and going digital-only with software purchases), then they have to ask themselves if it's even worth it to sell consoles. |
Well clearly that explanation did not include on your original post
But i can relate to it , i understand space is a problem for retailer but actually it's not that big on the 90's or early 2000 (hell even on PS3 /Xbox 360 ) era. The problem with online code and online content sale on retailer is also not making any difference , they only take small revenue margin. Many people just go to PSn or Xbox Live and redeem the code on Internet(why the hell people go to retail store to buy online if they can just do it online) . We have online banking and others payment method.
