{"id":2177451,"date":"2025-11-26T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2177451"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:44:38","slug":"best-buy-ups-quarterly-entertainment-revenue-22-5-driven-by-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/best-buy-ups-quarterly-entertainment-revenue-22-5-driven-by-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy Ups Quarterly Entertainment Revenue 22.5%, Driven by Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-321099\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-name\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/author\/egruenwedel\/\" title=\"Posts by Erik Gruenwedel\" class=\"author url fn\" rel=\"author\">Erik Gruenwedel<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">November 25, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Best Buy Nov. 25 reported a 14% increase in third-quarter (ended Nov. 1) same-store entertainment sales, compared with a 19% decline in the previous-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment segment, which includes video game hardware and software, books, music CDs, and computer software, saw revenue increase 22.5% to $532.7, or 6% of Best Buy\u2019s domestic revenue of $8.9 billion. That compared with entertainment revenue of $434.9 million on total revenue of $8.7 billion in the previous-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The largest revenue drivers included video games, computing, and mobile phones, offset by declines in home theater, appliances, tablets, and drones. Domestic online revenue of $2.82 billion increased 3.5% on a comparable basis. Domestic online revenue was 31.8% versus 31.4% last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to report better-than-expected sales and adjusted operating income rate for the third quarter,\u201d CEO Corie Barry said in a statement. \u201cOur comparable sales grew 2.7% as we continued to drive strong results across computing, gaming and mobile phones. We delivered sales growth across both online and stores, saw continued improvements in customer experience ratings and launched our Best Buy Marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barry has high hopes for the newly launched marketplace, which offers consumers online access to both the retailer\u2019s merchandise and third-party seller products \u2014 similar to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dgLnU5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Subscribe HERE to the FREE\u00a0<em>Media Play News<\/em>\u00a0Daily Newsletter!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp4wp-related-posts\">\n<h3>Related Posts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"rp4wp-related-post-content\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/best-buy-closing-all-domestic-mobile-stores\/\">Best Buy Closing All Domestic Mobile Stores<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best Buy reportedly is shuttering all 250 branded mobile stores in the United States, effective May 31. The closures do not affect 52 mobile stores operating in Canada, according to Reuters, which cited an internal memo sent to affected employees\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"rp4wp-related-post-content\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/best-buy-ups-q4-entertainment-revenue-17\/\">Best Buy Ups Q4 Entertainment Revenue 17%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all gloom and doom at Best Buy. The nation\u2019s largest consumer electronics retailer March 1 reported a 16.8% increase in fourth-quarter (ended Feb. 3) same-store entertainment revenue, compared to a 18.6% decline in the previous-year period. The entertainment\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mediaplaynews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Gruenwedel November 25, 2025 Best Buy Nov. 25 reported a 14% increase in third-quarter (ended Nov. 1) same-store entertainment sales, compared with a 19% decline in the previous-year period. The entertainment segment, which includes video game hardware and software, books, music CDs, and computer software, saw revenue increase 22.5% to $532.7, or 6% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2177452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[419230,21741,419231],"class_list":["post-2177451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-best-buy","tag-entertainment","tag-third-quarter-fiscal-results"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Best-Buy-Ups-Quarterly-Entertainment-Revenue-225-Driven-by-Video.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177453,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177451\/revisions\/2177453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}