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Nintendo Could Become the Last Home for Physical Games (www.buffgaming.rs)
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As PlayStation and Xbox move toward a more digital future, Nintendo could become the last major platform where physical games still truly matter.

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[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If Xbox was smart, they would now announce they are sticking to physical media for the next generation, and back to console exclusives.

That would deflate the PS6 completely.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

MS literally just decimated the entire Xbox + gaming studios front in favour of AI fuckwit hiring, we're lucky if there's a next Xbox console physical release, let alone games....

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

Except that has never been Microsoft's gaming strategy. The Xbox was developed to give PC gaming a toehold in the console market so that games in one market class could be easily ported over to the other.

As app stores became a major money maker for OS's, the Xbox game store became a backdoor way to get an established app store on PC to eat Valve's lunch and pull in a new revenue stream.

Physical media doesn't work with Microsoft's gaming strategy.