Xbox consoles recently experienced a worldwide outage, during which people were unable to access even disc-based games that should have been playable offline. Service was restored within a day but the impact of this discovery could be significant as tensions run high surrounding the crumbling state of physical media. Microsoft, however, was quick to suppress the negative PR, telling The Verge that discs should have never been affected by the outage in the first place.
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