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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I love the feeling of getting into any store here in Brazil and having the impression that Xbox doesn't exist.
No physical media just means no presence on stores, retailers stop giving a shit about trying to move your consoles, you alienate a sizable part of your audience and you get all this negative momentum.
Where did you see this?
Edit - I looked it up and there is a physical release for both Yakuza 8 and P3R in Japan. Sega isn't that dumb
Yakuza - 龍が如く8
P3R - ペルソナ３リーロド
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I'm going to make more of an effort to buy as much as possible physically. We definitely need to incentivize gaming companies to keep this option alive and healthy.
It’s only Xbox games and movies losing retail space.
I buy physically for most games. I only buy digital if its only available that way, on an extreme discount or the game is out of print.
I would love to see more people follow your lead.
I've found some great deals soon after launch for some big releases last year. People underestimate retail and how competitive they can be.
As long as game discs are just dongles that make it a hassle to change games, fuck physical.
Granted, here in Canada there is no competition on game pricing, since few retailers still even sell games, so you get very limited selection, no sales short of games hitting the bargain bin, and high prices.
It's just for the Xbox versions, but it's odd because they are going with Xbox as the primary marketing partner for them.
Not having a retail presence to accompany your prime marketing moves is a dumb as fuck move imo but we'll wait and see.
All they do when they do physical disks is put a license file on it anyway you still have to download the entire game
People in my family talked about the issue with stuff you "buy" being removed... It's finally getting more attention.
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.www.bbc.com
Variety is Hollywood's paper of record. You can generally trust anything they publish, as long as you can mentally correct stuff like political biases.
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Looks like Game will no longer sell pre-owned physical games here in the UK:
Game to stop selling pre-owned titles
The firm's owner, Frasers Group, told the BBC trade-ins would be phased out in "the coming months".
www.bbc.co.uk
See MS were visionaries with their DRM scheme!Looks like Game will no longer sell pre-owned physical games here in the UK:
Game to stop selling pre-owned titles
The firm's owner, Frasers Group, told the BBC trade-ins would be phased out in "the coming months".www.bbc.co.uk
Like nobody saw this coming as soon as Steam started to gain traction.
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Yeah saw this yesterday.Looks like Game will no longer sell pre-owned physical games here in the UK:
Game to stop selling pre-owned titles
The firm's owner, Frasers Group, told the BBC trade-ins would be phased out in "the coming months".www.bbc.co.uk
Lol, what a joke, that shit is what was killing Gamestop. They'll be ghost-towns now.Looks like Game will no longer sell pre-owned physical games here in the UK:
Game to stop selling pre-owned titles
The firm's owner, Frasers Group, told the BBC trade-ins would be phased out in "the coming months".www.bbc.co.uk
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$5 less than brand new at GameStop was always a major rip-off for used games.
The only things priced better were usually things nobody wanted anyway.
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Tht was Gamestop and I always said fuck them! ebay and other places is a gold mine for used purchases. We already know how Gamestop gave it up.
Game is gamestop in Europe? I thiught it was a diff company.