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Microsoft cuts prompt Xbox digital future questions


Microsoft's decision to cut 1900 staff members has reportedly seen the company's games retail teams reduced, prompting …

But the news it has cut staff working on physical game releases comes after Microsoft accidentally revealed it had planned for a digital-only console future as early as this year. Microsoft's plans to replace the current Xbox Series X with a digital-only refresh were included in the enormous cache of files it accidentally uploaded to an FTC server last September. Those plans, which dated from April 2022, described an "adorably all-digital" machine to launch this year, that drew less power, allowed for faster Wi-Fi and featured 2TB of internal storage.

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