Bethesda's Starfield had a very strong opening week in European markets, topping both the physical and digital game charts for last week. It is also the 5th biggest launch in Europe to date.
Physical games once dominated the gaming market because, well, they were the only reliable sources for playing games. However, the slow advent of digital games and their popularity has started to affect the physical games market, which is currently in a steady decline.
Over the weekend, Xbox Live had a major outage, bringing to light some lesser known aspects of the Xbox DRM policy and locking many out of their games. Microsoft may already have a solution on the way to avoid this in the future, while also preserving the physical games market in an era where digital-only …