While there aren’t really any hard official figures, it’s no secret that Xbox has become a broadly digital platform.
In decades past, we loaded up video games on cassettes, cartridges, CDs, and eventually Blu-Ray discs. Around the advent of Blu-Ray, though, something changed.
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