I was already holding my tongue about the collector's edition shipping with a code, the physical premium edition for 5 days early access releasing seperately without the actual physical game (literally a physical steelbook upgrade for digital versions of the game). Then after barely a week of good momentum they increase the price of Series X to match PS5 in certain regions (that's an extra $100 in New Zealand), on the same day FFXVI released and disc-PS5 was $60 off at one of our most popular retailers. They already don't list any Xbox sku without a vaporware copy of Horizon 5 or Diablo IV for $900, so an extra $100 would make the entry point for Series X in our country $1000.
If they were to go that hard into pressuring digital ownership by selling absolutely no physical edition of Starfield, while we're still just waiting to see if any of these games will actually deliver on any of their promises already nearing the halfway point of the console-gen, I'd be pretty damn bemused.
At least for now the Horizon 5 and Diablo IV bundles are still listed for $900. If I see that Horizon 5 bundle drop by $50 I might honestly just have to panic buy, because it at least comes with a bunch of DLC and I can pick up the physical copy later for much cheaper.
