Best Buy Exiting the Physical Media Biz (not games) in 2024 (Online & In-Store) & Walmart has begun removing physical games. Selling for 3 cents.
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75% of xbox sales are Series S. They are almost entirely digital. There's no reason to sell physical Xbox games. No need to base this on any rumor.
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Bro we know the stats. Digital in general has taken over with many devs saying their breakdown, in sales is 70% digital and 30% physical. This isnt an Xbox situation but a video game industry one.
We are all cognizant that in the end the situation will be similar to the movie industry.
Terrible news for Xbox. One purpose retail displays serve is advertising. Reminding the audience that your product exists is something Xbox will now have to spend more marketing $$$ on, and that budget was sliced up like pepperoni when they ran into financial woes. The ABK acquisition will put even more pressure on actually turning a profit for once.
Will also lead to Walmart pushing the other two since they can then go on to sell games too.
I wonder how Gamestop will react to the concept of a console with no used games.
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If this is true this say more about Xbox than it does physical media being phased out. That platform just can't get its fanbase to buy games. Xbox as a console platform is going to be put to pasture for real if stuff like what Wal Mart is rumor to be doing is true. Microsoft doesn't promote the console enough anyways so when customers aren't seeing Xbox games on store shelves it's a wrap.
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On the bright side, at least GameStop is starting to sell physical movies 
This sucks.
Some local retailers here already do not sel physical games locally.
I am getting all my ps4/5 stuff online from smaller retailers. It's always cheaper than on psn, usually some physical goodies and pre-orders are usually day early.
Yeah, I was playing elden ring and ac6 day earlier on ps5 and have nice boxes.
With physical, you can also play version 1.0 if you want. I can play bloodborne 1.0 or fight radahn 1.0 if I want. I think that's important and interesting.
Sure, patches you have to download online but it doesn't matter much. yeah, I need to download a patch. you need to download whole game.
If sony servers die, after 2 weeks your digital purchases will be invalid. My installed and patched game will still work after I put in the disc.
also, love this website:
Some local retailers here already do not sel physical games locally.
I am getting all my ps4/5 stuff online from smaller retailers. It's always cheaper than on psn, usually some physical goodies and pre-orders are usually day early.
Yeah, I was playing elden ring and ac6 day earlier on ps5 and have nice boxes.
With physical, you can also play version 1.0 if you want. I can play bloodborne 1.0 or fight radahn 1.0 if I want. I think that's important and interesting.
Sure, patches you have to download online but it doesn't matter much. yeah, I need to download a patch. you need to download whole game.
If sony servers die, after 2 weeks your digital purchases will be invalid. My installed and patched game will still work after I put in the disc.
also, love this website:
Everything is conspiring to kill physical discs. It's one of the last things I really like about console gaming, and it's already greatly devalued from 10-15 years ago. Between games working like shit without their "day-1" patch, and in-box content reduced down to a 1 week free trial of PSN, all the game publishers really worked to make the disc version as unappealing as possible.
Given how much they’d shrunk that line of business already here, it will be unnoticeable in terms of changes.
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In recent leaked sony documents, it is shown that digital is only ~35% of all sales.
That's what I expected. Al the people I know and the general feeling you can get, is that big AAA games and especially Sony games mainly sell on disc.
New god of war comes out? Sure as hell most people want to have that on disc and on shelf.
And their documents confirm that
all these post "digital sells below 10%" was bullshit. People buy physical for big games. of course they do. It's cheaper, you get more what you pay for and more control over your purchase.
In recent leaked sony documents, it is shown that digital is only ~35% of all sales.
That's what I expected. Al the people I know and the general feeling you can get, is that big AAA games and especially Sony games mainly sell on disc.
New god of war comes out? Sure as hell most people want to have that on disc and on shelf.
And their documents confirm that
all these post "digital sells below 10%" was bullshit. People buy physical for big games. of course they do. It's cheaper, you get more what you pay for and more control over your purchase.
Best buy has really good customer service and warranties though, unless costco has a VERY significant price advantage, like 15%+, I'd take Best Buy for big appliance purchases like TVs
Is this retailer chain big?
I heard in US the rate of digital media is 80-90%, while physical MOP probably not much for retailers anyway, considering their price dropped off really fast, especially video games. Warehouse, transport costs. Probably not much.
I heard in US the rate of digital media is 80-90%, while physical MOP probably not much for retailers anyway, considering their price dropped off really fast, especially video games. Warehouse, transport costs. Probably not much.
Its pretty big. Once upon a time like 10-15 years ago whenever a new shopping center was built they would always put a Best Buy in.
yes. in the US, it's the main national electronics retailer. living on the east coast, i would primarily buy console discs at best buy, walmart or target. the gaming-specific chain gamestop is trash. target's selection is usually bad. so it kind of leaves walmart as the default place to buy games on disc. the west coast might have a few more options.
