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patronmacabre said:

I am actually going to take an opposing view to the consensus.
I think towards the end of this generation, we will start to see a very rapid shift towards digital. If that happens to be the case, games made at the end of the generation will have more limited quantities of their physical copies. On the other hand, all major Wii U games will be available for retail.
And that definitely begs a more interesting question: what will become of digital media, especially older digital media 20 years from now? Will PSN and Xbox Live for the Xbox One still be supported?
Ultimately, I think it's a fair assessment that Wii U games will be less widely available, and thus be more expensive, assuming Wii U games will be equally as high in demand twenty years from now as XB1 or PS4 games, which we have no idea of knowing. But there's still a lot of things that could happen in twenty years that could completely change the value of physical media.

that is an interesting take on the affect digital sales will have on the value of physical media. I dont think this digital takeover will be happening this generation though. i think the way physical and digital is being handled right now will be the way it is handled through the remainder of the generation.