Tesco, the UK supermarket giant that sells just about anything these days, has announced plans to stop selling physical video game products.
As reported by GI.biz, Tesco will flog its current stock among its 2,800 stores in the UK, but after that, it will no longer be stocking boxed games, explaining that its customers moving “towards digital entertainment.”
Tesco has recently been applying huge price cuts to its video games as of late, so the decision to give the boot to physical goods may not come as a surprise.
While Tesco will no longer be stocking physical games, it will continue to flog currency cards that consumers can use to purchase digital titles from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony’s online stores.
Digital game sales have been skyrocketing in recent years, although in the UK Chart-Track still does not publish digital figures and only counts boxed sales when publishing its multi-format chart data. As such, there’s a huge chunk of sales not accounted for, which doesn’t really give us an idea of how well a particular game is selling in the country.
[Source – GamesIndustry.biz]