With sales drying up I figured there would be excess stock of Series consoles all over the place. Where are they all going?
Not a slight against you but I think a lot of people don't know how retail works or at least they don't think about it.
These retailers have pretty limited quantities and central warehouse depots also have pretty limited quantities. The first thing you'll see is local retail start to dry up and when corporate retailers aren't putting in orders for fulfilment, you're going to run out of warehouse supply pretty quickly.
Sony has been stockpiling supply and they said they have three months worth of supply. What they mean by that is based on retail demand, they'll be able to supply retailers for 3 months, not consumers, but retailers.
To be clear, you can actually buy an Xbox in Canada directly through Xbox/Microsoft.
The retailers that still have stock will likely sell what they have and not order anymore, but if you're in Canada and you want an Xbox you can get one. Just have to order one online.
Exactly, retailers aren't going to buy Xboxes that are going to sit on shelves unsold.
If you raise the price of an XSX from 500 dollars to 650 dollars, yeah, you'll still find someone willing to buy the inventory you have, but the question is how long can you sustain that.
It'll be VERY interesting to see the Circana reports next month and the month after, because what I suspect is that Microsoft has done a soft discontinuation of Xbox hardware.
