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. |
Are they selling refurbished xbox consoles or has that stopped as well, this far into the cycle it might not be a worry for them, but what happens when the next cycle starts and customers come looking for their PS5 and XB2 consoles , do they turn around and tell them go somewhere else if that's the case I can see a lot of gamers going else where to get their new console and games and not bothering to return.
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