Square Enix has committed support to Xbox, but it has come with a caveat. Seemingly, there are no physical versions of its upcoming games for Xbox. This seems to be happening more and more, but why?
Why? They fabricated the ecosystem so that you don’t own the game, you own the license to access the game. Of course, with the birth of PS4 and Xbox One, physical discs were fucked anyway because they mostly stopped storing all the data on it, and you had to start downloading the rest. And Microsoft made it so they could start trickle feeding the revenue through them back to the devs. You cannot convince me that devs get more revenue per sale as part of Game Pass than they did as physical media.
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Why? They fabricated the ecosystem so that you don’t own the game, you own the license to access the game. Of course, with the birth of PS4 and Xbox One, physical discs were fucked anyway because they mostly stopped storing all the data on it, and you had to start downloading the rest. And Microsoft made it so they could start trickle feeding the revenue through them back to the devs. You cannot convince me that devs get more revenue per sale as part of Game Pass than they did as physical media.
Only way to 100% ensure planned obsolescence for software, either control the access, or control the hardware/OS. Why not both in this case!