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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Yeah it was in the OP originally must have dejected but I put back. But Im not 100% confident I'm tht.
Looking around the net variety is the only source. The got the info from BestBuy themselves presumably.
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Yeah I had a diff article up before which was via a tweet but idk where it went.
So, apparently Wal-Mart is looking at dropping physical Xbox games now. There’s a thread on GAF about it.
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I imagine there will be a ~18 month gap, so a mid 2026 release.
There will be a power gap, but Xbox has announced a ton of games that won't be out for years for Series S and X so they will forced to support them, and third-parties will obviously be supporting PS5 (and PS5 Pro) for years to come.
Reliable sources are saying Wal-Mart Canada is dropping Xbox physical Xbox games too.
I didn’t know this. Walmart should discontinue their hardware too.
I mean look at xbox themselves. They are barely putting any of their own games on disc. Redfall was a lat second thing, no hifi rush physical, no physical for their smaller titles like grounded or pentiment. And removing yourself from retail will further make consumers forget about your product let alone retails will focus much more on selling and recommending PS/NINTENDO to customers
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Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing
In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, "streaming anxiety" is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.
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Their strategy for the Xbox One is finally coming to fruition after more than 10 years. No game borrowing and forced internet connectivity.
they stopped manufacturing physical games here in Brazil in early 2023, leaving a lot of people that purchased Series X consoles w/ a 4K Blu Ray drives with a clown face, Brazil is like Xbox 3rd biggest market, they'll drop physical games this gen, BEFORE the gen ends, mark my words.
xbox marketing contract must be preventing them from doing physical copies, they're trying to BRUTE FORCE people to go full digital/cloud and SEGA is falling for it
Brute Force was a TERRIBLE game. One of the worst Xbox first-party games of that generation.