Microsoft has removed the ability to purchase movies and television shows from the Xbox's storefront, leaving entertainment fans hanging. Despite releasing several high-quality games, like South of Midnight and Doom: The Dark Ages, and revealing the ROG Xbox Ally handheld last month, it's been a rough year for the gaming brand as it suffered a devastating wave of layoffs earlier this month that saw the cancellation of games like Everwild and Perfect Dark, and even the shuttering of The Initiative, a studio started by Xbox in 2018.
Entertainment has been a part of Xbox's digital offerings for quite some time. Microsoft's "Xbox Video" program launched near the tail end of the Xbox 360 generation in 2012 and served as the successor to Microsoft's Zune service of the 2000s. Xbox Video also served as a precursor to the Xbox One's larger focus as an all-in-one entertainment box, a shift that marked doom for the console and put the Xbox brand in a position behind PlayStation and Nintendo that it's still attempting to recover from to this day.
Fans notice some potentially troubling signs that may suggest Xbox is starting to move away from physical copies in favor...
