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crissindahouse on 13 October 2023
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konnichiwa said:
zero129 said:

Ok reading the other post Xbox could be fucked here.

Honestly it wont be good if Shops start dropping Xbox games from the shelves..

I made a post with pictures before how it is already happening accross some regions and because I read your comment I choose to go another store in my city to check the situation.  Their are three stores''franchises' in my city of (550k population) that has atleast a decent portion of games available.

Last Time I chose Mediamarkt a store that put xbox games in the Playstation shelves (for each xbox game their were 10 ps games)

This time I went to FNAC

1)  Switch Is kicking it with having the most games/Accessories available



2)  Playstation is close behind



3) Well xbox has no games section anymore and they just put the games with controllers, FC 2024 isn't even available on Xbox and the last game is Hogwarts.



4) Wanted to check the price of the Hogwarts games and behind it was not even a game (but with the Green I can see the confusion)

5) Atleast the console is available you have the choice between the day one release or the Diablo bundle, the S and New S are also available behind this consoles and one the right of picture 3

6)  New releases and ofcourse no Xbox game because gamers don't want the xbox version..

7)   And honestly this is the finisher,  In the middle of Europe selling an Xbox console for 550€ with Diablo 4;  or selling PS5 bundle that on its own is already 5 times more popular for 499€ with probably one of the top three best selling games of the year, Next week they will have the Spiderman bundle next to it.

I'm from Germany so I obviously know how bad Xbox consoles sell in Europe but there's still a lot of stuff you have to consider. Xbox releases all their games on Gamepass. Xbox has the highest ratio of game downloads compared to physical sales. Gamepass also has many games of other studios + the Access to EA Play.

So yeah, we all know that Xbox consoles do bad in Europe but some store shelves about games don't really tell anything considering how Xbox gamers are already mostly all digital.

It's not the same but there's nobody who would ever say how bad Google is doing because you see no Android games in the shops. 

And when there also won't be any PS games anymore in 5 years then there's also nobody who will say "PS is dead" or anything. Because then it's obviously "PS sells everything digital"

I'm also not an Xbox owner anymore but I'm still only Xbox (talking about the console manufacturers) and I play mostly on Gamepass nowadays. Steam is only second to me. 

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 13 October 2023