As store closures mount up, is there hope left for physical games outlets?

[VAMatt]

konnichiwa said:

VAMatt said:
GameStop and other retailers can survive, but they're going to have to significantly decrease their footprint. I don't know what's GameStop's debt load will allow them to do that. But, if they can right-size, they'll be fine. Physical game sales are not going away anytime soon, especially when you consider the 40 years of gaming that has already taken place and is almost all physical. There will be a market for those games forever.

Well it goes fast,  10 years ago TR anniversary was the first retail game that you could download and the response from the cummunity was luke warm. 
Now we have so many people who only buy digital.  The next ten years will be interesting =).

I agree with all that. But, there are still 40 years worth of games on physical media out there. Those items will continue to be bought sold and traded. That certainly is it going to warrant change of thousands of stores. But, it will certainly be able to support some number of brick-and-mortar retailers.