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Update 1/23/2024 at 4:15 a.m. PT / 7:15 a.m. A Walmart source reached out to us anonymously to describe the situation in more depth.
The original story follows.
Starfield is set to receive an expansion and updates in 2024, but physical copies will reportedly no longer be sold at Walmart.
Despite coming out in September 2023,Starfield passed 13 million playersbefore the end of last year.
But few of those players seem to have physical copies of the game.
Walmart will reportedly stop selling physical copies of Starfield within the next few weeks.
Walmart once sold physical copies of Starfield, including the limited-edition Constellation Edition. Soon, it may not sell physical games at all.
That information comes from a leak originally shared on X byAndrew Marmo.
Well-known leak expertWario64then confirmed seeing the same memo.
That sounds like work to us, but Starfield for $0.03 might be worth the risk.
Starfield launched last year with high expectations, and the title largely met them.
Starfield has a massive user base andwill receive new featuresand expansions in 2024.
The news here is the potential death of physical media at Walmart, not anything negative about Starfield specifically.
Physical media has declined steadily over the years.
Best Buy reportedly will not sell physical movies anymore.
Physical games appear to have a similar fate at Walmart, assuming recent leaks are accurate.
Even Microsoft’s hardware has shifted toward digital games over the years.
Global digital gaming revenue was $174.5 billion in 2023, according toGamesIndustry.biz’s annual report.
PC game revenue was 99% digital in 2023.
However, retailers seem reluctant to invest the shelf space and effort needed to sell physical copies of games.
Bethesda rewards the faithful with one of Microsoft’s best exclusive games in over a decade.
With great storytelling and an exciting new world, Starfield is a triumph.
