Xbox withdrawing game discs and boxes from Europe

In Europe, they no longer replenish stocks of games in boxes? Not long ago, the team responsible for physical game releases was laid off, and now new revelations are emerging. It is said that retail sellers in Europe have simply stopped replenishing stocks of boxed games for consoles bearing the green logo. Do you remember the Microsoft layoffs from last week?

As many as 1900 people lost their jobs, which reverberated widely in the gaming industry and beyond. This has led to the Federal Trade Commission once again taking up the matter of the company’s merger with Activision Blizzard. This information was surprising, but it was not associated with any specific announcements. No one directly told us that the end of physical game boxes is coming.

Today we can somewhat clarify our approach to the topic because it turns out that Xbox is indeed heading towards abandoning discs – at least that’s the rumor among some industry insiders. It appears that retail sellers of games in Europe have stopped replenishing stocks of physical releases for Microsoft’s console. These are becoming less available for sale, as most titles are sold digitally. Christopher Dring from GameIndustry.biz shared this information: “Across Europe, several retail sellers simply stopped offering Xbox consoles for sale.

So they just stopped offering games for Xbox because the Xbox is now a digital console. The physical performance of games for the Xbox console is really low and ultimately the sale of games for a console from which most people simply download games does not bring much benefit to the retailer. The hardware margin is often quite small.” As you can see, the new era is upon us.

For example, a similar situation occurred last year with the game Alan Wake 2.