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Walmart Reportedly Starting to Purge Physical Games Next Week (comicbook.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifically Xbox Games.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It doesn't necessarily have to be.

It could be that Walmart was planning to start winding down physical game sales and made that clear to Microsoft, but Microsoft made a deal to foot the bill for extra inventory to keep supply available during the holidays. Even with packaging and distribution, the actual cost per game to Microsoft isn't really that high.