Several stores will stop selling Xbox games Atomics

Xbox has made it clear that its future is digital. Not only do they have a console to focus entirely on this division, but it was announced a few days ago that their division focused on the production of physical games has closed its doors after a series of layoffs. now, It was recently revealed that multiple stores in Europe have stopped selling physical games Xbox.

According to Christopher Dring, director of GamesIndustry.biz, Multiple stores across Europe will stop selling physical games. Dring noted that in December 2023, these stores told him they were already planning to restock the Xbox producer, making it clear they only planned to sell what they had left in the warehouse. Here’s what was said about it:

“A major publisher told me just before Christmas that across Europe, several retailers were no longer carrying the Xbox.

So they started selling xbox games now, xbox is a digital console, the physical performance of the games is really low and finally when you sell a console that most people just download games for, it’s not like that. It doesn’t really benefit the retailer very much.

Hardware margins are usually quite small. “I couldn’t back it up, I couldn’t find it at any retailer, but it was a high-level European editorial chief who told me.”

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, it’s been made clear for a long time that Xbox is going for a fully digital ecosystem. Closing the physical games category isn’t the only example Last year, a document was leaked stating that a fully digital Xbox Series X was already in production.Which will be in the market in November this year.

All this has to do with the direction the company is taking. By focusing on Game Pass, it’s clear that Xbox is focused on growing its digital platform, and that means taking it everywhere possible. Thus, It is even better for them that millions of users pay a monthly subscription to get access to all their digital gameswhich is also available on PC and cloud-enabled devices instead of paying for a disc you can only use on an Xbox Series X.

however, It is undeniable that it can affect your presence in the market to some extent., since many, especially causal players, are driven by what they see in a store, not by the digital ecosystem. In related matters, Xbox reported higher growth after last week’s layoffs. Similarly, will help the development of Xbox Palworld.

Editor’s note:

This is a real insult. It’s one thing to focus more on the digital ecosystem, and quite another to drop support for physical games altogether. Beyond the economic decision, this is a problem for the preservation of video games, since titles like Hi-Fi Rush will eventually disappear and there’s nothing, legally, we can do about it.

Through: GamesIndustry.biz