Several European retailers are reportedly no longer stocking physical Xbox games
Several European retailers are reportedly no longer stocking physical Xbox games
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I think it’s okay for physical releases too become less widespread as long as people who want them can order a physical copy online. Less plastic
Not a surprise. The mollywhopping the PS5 has delivered to the Xbox Series S/X is even bigger than the one the PS4 gave the Xbox One so far, and Europe was a large bastion of Sony fans even during the Bad Days which were the early PS3.
Combine that with Microsoft’s budget model for the gen lacking the ability to play physical copies of games and it’s not a real surprise that retailers are seeing shelves of said games being wasted space.
This isn’t shocking since the digital only xbox s outsells the X by a large margin since it’s cheaper.
I’d say this is an Xbox problem and not an industry problem. People have no problem buying physical PlayStation 5 and Nintendo switch games.
Microsoft abandoning players sad
Considering XBOX was never big in EU and still isn’t, this isn’t a surprise, also they are a service brand now, amount of users using GamePass and digital copies of games is a vast majority.
Its basically a non issue.
Microsoft’s problem is that they have no compelling games for my likes.
What am I supposed to play? I was looking for a reason to get an Xbox X but none of the games in their library does anything for me.
Microsoft is shutting down it’s division for Physical games.
Read somewhere that Playstation was outselling Xbox 20 to 1 in Europe.
I don’t want digital only games, I collect I don’t want non existent everything. I don’t really care if it saves space or not.
All the retailers I know here in Germany still have physical Xbox games.
In fact you can buy physical games everywhere in general. From electronics retailers over private owned game shops, GameStop or even in drug stores like Müller. Physical games everywhere.
I live in a 60k town, city center. I can reach like 20+ places to buy games in less than 15 minutes by foot or bus. And then you also have online shops everywhere. And physicals games are cheaper here than digital, already on release day. I buy all my games physical across PlayStation, Xbox and Switch for that reason.