In a digital-only future, how will the gaming retailers react?

[Zippy6]

abronn627 said:

haxxiy said:

They'll focus on retro games and hardware/accessories and continue to shrink as a business. There isn't much brick-and-mortar stores can do beyond that.

Or they’ll keep doing what they have been doing for years and expand into higher margins products like toys, merch, TGC and other ventures. And unless they can increase their margins on hardware sales, they’re likely to reduce their push for console sales, which in the end will probably means less distribution capacity for hardware manufacturers…

Yep, at least in the UK when you went into a video game store, half the stock was stuff like funko pops lol. Well GAME went bust so there isn't really any video game retailers here anymore anyway.

CEX, Grainger Games, my local independent game store, they mostly stock only used games.

In the UK I wouldn't even know where to go to buy a new game in person. HMV or a supermarket I guess lol. Though I don't remember the last time I saw the games section in Morrisons so that might not be a thing anymore either.

Brand new physical games at high-street retailers is basically dead in the UK. People just buy online.