Well-known gaming retailer closes most stores in South Africa

• BT Games reduced its store count from over 50 to just three, all concentrated in Gauteng, as the digital revolution changed gaming retail in South Africa.
• The transition of gamers to online channels like Steam for PC and the PlayStation and Xbox storefronts killed physical disc sales, prompting BT Games to quickly shift to gaming peripherals to survive.
• The shift to digital gaming led to PC games being the first to vanish from physical storefronts, with console games lingering due to uncapped broadband access remaining far from universal in South Africa.