Why are fewer and fewer Xbox games releasing with physical discs? "We wouldn't be able to make our investment back."

Photo of physical discs Rye, Witcher 3, Left 4 Dead, Madden 25, and The Walking Dead.

While there aren't really any hard official figures, it's no secret that Xbox has become a broadly digital platform.

In decades past, we loaded up video games on cassettes, cartridges, CDs, and eventually Blu-Ray discs. Around the advent of Blu-Ray, though, something changed.