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Aside from a some high profile / high demand games.... was this really solving a problem? I don't recall ever having problems getting my hands on a cartridge.

Obviously there are some supply chain savings and such but at least as far as availability I'm not sure this solved much.

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High profile / high demand games actually were a bigger problem than your stating. However this solves other problems.

Reduced floor space usage. Better breath of inventory. Better customer service, you'll always have every title in stock.

When i was like 10, every time my parents were grocery shopping i'd walk into the (attached) video rental store and ask for specific copies of a couple games that were hard to get. To date myself, this was likely NES era.

I remember like SMB3 early on was hard to get, also rent, but aside from a handful of situations that always seemed to end pretty fast.

We were hiding the games you wanted behind games you didn't until we got enough allowance.

100% this, i'd hide games in the vhs section

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