Xbox’s recent moves towards exclusives have confirmed the company’s embrace of digital, with some of the games not being on the disc itself, but simply having some licensing details. This is in addition to the Xbox Game Pass service, which includes the largest segment of Xbox owners, and is also all-digital. So is this any sign that we’re moving away from the idea of physical releases?

In an interview he gavePhil Spencer“Microsoft’s head of gaming, from Game File, was asked about the future of Xbox, and among those questions in particular he was asked about physical releases, and Spencer’s response to that was that the company will replicate what users do with their games, and that’s what the company is actually doing now, which is a focus of users of the platform on digital games, but at the same time the company will not get rid of physical versions, despite there being a greater interest in the digital business.

He said “elephant“Building drives for home consoles has become an expensive process given the lack of sufficient suppliers to do so, so the process of releasing physical games in the future will be more difficult than ever, and this indicates that the company is adopting physical releases with big titles only to a large extent.

In fact, the presence of games in the Xbox Game Pass service and in digital format available for purchase in the store negates the importance of their presence on physical discs, so the current digital trend of Xbox is very logical, and although this trend is present on PlayStation in the same way, we note the importance of having physical versions due to the fact that there is a large group that loves these versions of PlayStation.

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