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Daniel Ahmad@ZhugeEX

The lack of a physical disc is not too surprising, given that full game digital sales now account for around 80% of PlayStation software sales and 90% on Xbox. Not to mention hardware price hikes are shifting market share towards the lower cost digital console variants.

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