Désilets: the future is digital, Microsoft just fluffed Xbox One message

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Ex-Ubisoft developer and Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets has said that Microsoft was right to focus on a digital-based future for Xbox One games, but the company failed to deliver its message correctly.
Désilets, whose own blockbuster game 1666: Amsterdam is on hold after he quit Ubisoft, gave his thoughts on the lifespan of physical media, as well as Microsoft's recent U-turn on Xbox One game ownership, to Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry International.
"I just think, 'come on, guys, the future is going to be digital,'" Désilets explained. "Maybe right now we don't fully understand it, so we don't know how to communicate what digital is and how it will actually work.
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