Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed lingering questions around the company stance on physical media following last year’s leaks of an “adorably all-digital” Xbox Series X refresh, saying Microsoft continues to be “supportive” of the medium, and insisting “getting rid of physical, that’s not a strategic thing for us.”
An all-digital (and distinctly cylindrical) new Xbox Series X design first surfaced as part of a mammoth leak of official Microsoft documentation during last year’s court battle with the FTC over its Activision Blizzard acquisition plans. However, when Spencer later acknowledged the leak, he called its contents “old emails and documents”, insisting that “so much has changed”.
But still, the possibility of an all-digital new Xbox has continued to loom, whether that be a mid-cycle refresh or a future console, particularly following news of major layoffs acoss Microsoft’s games retail teams. And Spencer has now shed a little more light on Microsoft’s perspective on physical media as part of an interview for journalist Stephen Totilo’s Game File.
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