By: Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar), April 21, 2019 12:11 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Groo (charlie.delete@this.semiaccurate.com) on April 20, 2019 12:37 pm wrote:
> Margins on BD/DVD hardware are VERY different from consoles. I got the full rundown on console
> economics during the XB360/Best Buy days. The short version is the retailers make roughly zero
> on the consoles, normal margins on games, and huge margins on overpriced accessories. If there
> are no games to sell, they incentive to stock and sell the console is zero. You might sell an
> accessory or two when they buy it but the return visits for games and other things just went
> poof. Worse yet if one console has a disc player, guess which will be stocked/pushed?
Are brick and mortar sales of consoles really that important in the world of 2020, when anything you want is a few clicks away from being shipped to your door?
> Margins on BD/DVD hardware are VERY different from consoles. I got the full rundown on console
> economics during the XB360/Best Buy days. The short version is the retailers make roughly zero
> on the consoles, normal margins on games, and huge margins on overpriced accessories. If there
> are no games to sell, they incentive to stock and sell the console is zero. You might sell an
> accessory or two when they buy it but the return visits for games and other things just went
> poof. Worse yet if one console has a disc player, guess which will be stocked/pushed?
Are brick and mortar sales of consoles really that important in the world of 2020, when anything you want is a few clicks away from being shipped to your door?