Call me old fashioned, but digital distribution (DD) just isn't my style. I prefer a physical copy symbolizing ownership when I put $50 to $60 down on a game. For instance, I recently bought a new gaming laptop and have started purchasing games for it. Sure I could have paid for and downloaded both Starcraft 2 and The Witcher, which both would come pre-patched saving me the time and hassle to patch the retail version. However, my like for game manuals and the box as a memento is very endearing and very, very ingrained.
As for blu ray, it seems the most logical choice 5 years from now. There was a thread here a month or two back about how small the blu ray market is.
Squilliam commented on it quite a bit. From the comments and the links, I remember Blu Ray being invented in 2005-2006 and 4 to 5 years later it is only 10 to 12% of the total home movie market. In contrast, DVD was invented around 1995 and came mainstream in 2000-2001.
If we are going by history, then it will be another 2 years before blu ray replaces DVD controlling for DD. Taking DD into account, blu ray may take up to 10 years to fully replace DVD. Just my opinion because there was no competing technology on the scale of DD with YouTube, Hulu and NetFlix when everyone was converting from VHS to DVD.
