While Microsoft is publishing more games than ever before, fewer and fewer of them are getting physical editions on its home ...

And yet, with the release of the PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox, I can’t tell you with any certainty that I will ever buy a physical game disc for these new systems. Related: Review: Microsoft ...

One rumor that's persisted for several years—at least a half a decade, at this point—is that Microsoft will completely abandon physical discs for its Xbox game consoles. It hasn't happened ...

Spencer tells Stephen Totilo's Game File that Microsoft will follow players in regards to abandoning ... physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that" Xbox ...

After the planned policies regarding not playing used games were abandoned ... the Xbox One, Microsoft planned several features around a digital ecosystem, even for people who bought the physical ...

The all-digital Xbox One is the first major console not to include an option for physical media. “I suppose it’s up to the console manufacturers, but my guess is that the video game publishers ...

"And right now physical is a choice that ... t change all that much when buying games for the next generation of consoles. This is a far cry from the Xbox One launch where the motion-tracking ...

Xbox has abandoned physical media faster than Sony ... Practically all of Sony’s games release on Blu-ray, and consumers still show up in sizeable numbers to buy boxed games on the platform.

Why People Are Rushing To Sell Their Xbox Series X To GameStop ... Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer told Game File the company wasn’t planning to abandon physical media.

He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades ... his public comments — had abandoned physical releases even before Mattrick’s Xbox division made its disastrous ...

As noted, there are companies like Xbox and Sony who seem to be shifting away from physical copies of games, and those rumors even speculate that the next versions of their console lineup could be ...