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GTA 6 boycott: Dutch shop Gameshop Twente refuses to sell the code-in-a-box edition
Gameshop Twente in the Netherlands will not stock GTA 6 because the box holds only a download code, Gamekult reports.
Sources gamekult.com
Gameshop Twente in the Netherlands will not stock GTA 6 because the box holds only a download code, Gamekult reports.
Sources gamekult.com
A Dutch store is refusing to sell GTA 6. Per Gamekult, Gameshop Twente has decided to boycott the launch because the physical box only contains a download code. "For us it was clear: we don't want to sell our customers a download code as a physical product," Floran Gelderman, who works at the shop, tells the outlet (translated from the French report).
Gameshop Twente lives on discs and cartridges, with a large retro section. It says it now sells only a limited number of physical Xbox titles, and notes Nintendo also sells "codes in boxes", with Sony following in 2028 according to Gamekult. Gelderman defends ownership: if your property depends on Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or a publisher's servers, you no longer fully own the game. He accepts that skipping GTA 6 means giving up revenue most shops consider essential.
The same piece recalls that Micromania is reinventing itself in France: a goodies partnership with Zing, a retro pivot, and a recent sale by Gamestop to a French-Quebec consortium.
A code, nothing else: Gamekult confirms it, tying the news to a Rockstar announcement just before Sony's. Prices stand at €79.99 for Standard, with the €99.99 Ultimate digital only (price details). The €399.99 Goodtime State box does not include the game. A reseller's boycott changes none of that.
Read also GTA 6 is rated PEGI 18, but nothing bans selling it to minors in France
For buyers, little: major chains still stock the game, and the box is the same everywhere. The gesture is symbolic and isolated, and nothing points to other boycotts so far. It mostly shows that the debate over the disc's disappearance, opened when the box turned out to hold only a code, is reaching retailers. For dates and preloading, see our release page.
Sources gamekult.com
By Solange Rocheval · VI Countdown newsroom, OKALAM Studio
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