Skip to main content

Xbox Missing Some Physical Releases & We Don't Like That!

 


    Most of us gamers don't really care how we play our games as long as we are playing and having fun. According to gaming stats, most games these days are bought digitally on consoles. Gaming on PC is pretty much 100 percent since the gaming outlets don't sell physical discs for PC anymore. According to Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), 89.5 percent of games were bought digitally. It is scary that just about eleven percent of games were bought physically. It is scary because I and a few other gamers love to buy our favorite games on a disc. We love to own physical games as they look nice when you collect and put them together. To me, it is nice to own physical games as those game-disc boxes show cool cover art and they show a good summary of the game's story and combat. Video games are art and the best way to showcase them is by actually owning them physically. 

    Now, to be honest, I'm not a big collector as I don't buy all the games physically. I buy only my favorites or the games with really cool cover art. At times, I buy games digitally on the Xbox and PlayStation stores, and other times, I play games via subscription services such as Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus. So yes, I don't limit myself to buying games physically only. However, I will be very upset when game developers and publishers stop producing physical games. I honestly think it will happen with how most gamers are consuming their games and how Xbox sometimes skips physical releases of first-party and multi-platform games.

    Does PlayStation skip physical releases? I'm not so sure if they do, but I know they have physical releases for NieR Automata and Guilty Gear Strive. Don't really care about NieR Automata (good game, just not for me) but I really wanted a physical release of Guilty Gear on Xbox, as I really like that game and the box art is fire. If you are wondering why I won't get a physical release of Guilty Gear on PlayStation, it is because I play my multi-platform games on Xbox due to Xbox being my preferred console and I love my achievements points.

    

Hi-Fi Rush, a game from Xbox first-party studio Tango Gameworks, can't be bought physically. You can buy the standard and deluxe editions at GameStop, but that's just the digital version (excellent job, team Xbox). Also High on Life, is not an Xbox first-party game but it was released on Xbox and PC last year and is not available to be purchased physically. Kinda sad if you ask me but I'm really hoping physical games don't go away, but how can we prevent that? We can only ask, so let me try. 

    "Xbox, I really appreciate all that you have done for gaming and your fans, but please don't be one of the reasons why physical games go extinct. We gamers would love to see you support us who love to own and collect physical games. I am glad you guys are not skipping physical releases of the upcoming small title games like Afterimage and Asterigos: Curse of the Stars. I look forward to buying them on day one and enjoying them to the fullest."



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Xbox Game Pass Can Be Very Controversial On Twitter.

     There are some things in this world that are hard to explain. These days people attempt to do weird and stupid things to catch attention. If you post something nice and educational on the internet, chances are you will get 10 to 40 likes if you have 1000 followers on Twitter or Instagram. If you post something controversial, you could get 10K likes and a whole lot of engagement in the comment section like no problem. In the gaming community, unless you are a popular streamer, when you post an excellent gameplay clip or anything positive related to gaming, you get a few cool gamers liking your post and maybe retweeting it. You might get a few bots on Twitter retweeting your post as well. If you post anything negative or anything to devalue one platform, your tweet will get retweeted by so many people with whom you never even interacted on the internet. Half of them will be applauding you and the other half will call you a clown. Either way, you get the attention. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

How The Gaming Community Has Helped Me Over The Years.

    When I first started using Social Media back in 2006, I was told by my older siblings to not interact with strangers. I was told that most of the strangers would try to act like they are my friends but at the end of the day, they are just going to manipulate me and get me in some major trouble. At that time, I was only twelve years old and I was using Orkut as my social media platform to interact with family and friends. I don't know if any of you remember Orkut, but it was pretty cool back then and more popular than Facebook in Southeast Asia from 2004-2007.      Fast-forward to the year 2020, ten years after moving to the US, I started to interact with strangers on the internet (Twitter). Why? I wanted to interact with cool gamers because I discovered that not only do I love playing awesome games but I like to talk about them as well. Secondly, I had turned twenty-six by June 2020, so I knew who I could talk to and who I would need to avoid. As I star...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Few Things Xbox Should Avoid At This Year's Showcase.

     We are just two days away from the Xbox Games Showcase. We all are curious to see what will be presented at the showcase. Like everyone else, I have made some predictions for the show. Two games I really wanna see this Sunday are Fable and Avowed. I wanna see their gameplay and would love to get a release date or window for both of them. Also, I'm looking forward to the announcement of Gears 6. It has been almost four years now since the release of Gears 5. Hopefully, we get to see the next Coalition project on Sunday.      In this post, I'm not going to do any more predictions. Instead, I wanna talk about a few things that I don't want Xbox to present at their showcase. You might disagree with me on some or most of them, but that's okay. However, I would like you all to share on Twitter @dawer_hussain what you don't wanna see at the showcase. Okay, let's start.      First of all, we don't want to see a new controller at the Xbox Games S...
Post a Comment
Read more