The ownership of games and the digital transition in gaming have been heated topics. With Sony announcing their upcoming departure from physical media, XBOX has been learning from its competitors' unpopular moves.
XBOX has launched the Disc-to-Digital program, where even delisted and physical-only releases work on its consoles. As part of Play Anywhere, XBOX also allows players to play a game on PC, provided they have a copy of it for the XBOX. By the looks of it, XBOX is far from done capitalizing on openings left by Sony.
As reported on Twitter, XBOX is sticking to physical media, at least for the foreseeable future. A new Microsoft job listing goes into detail about a 'XBOX Games Supply Strategist' position as part of the XBOX Supply Chain Team. The description offers a good insight into the company's plans in this department.
XBOX is Hiring for Physical Media
The core function of the XBOX Games Supply Strategist is the coordination of the launch of physical XBOX games across all platforms, meaning that Microsoft will continue producing physical copies of games under its ownership and wants new blood to keep the process running. That's more Call of Duty boxes...
