GameStop: Disc-based games will be around forever/long time

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Shadow1980 said:

They're. Still. BEING! MADE!

Again, the music industry isn't just up and saying "You like CDs? Too bad. Go buy an iPod." Sure, sales of non-blank CDs (if we include PS1 games) dropped from around a billion in 1999 to 144 million in the U.S., so of course with that reduction in volume they're going to shut down some plants. If they were going to force a switch to digital, they would shut them all down. But they're not! Because there's still well over 100 million CDs being sold in the U.S. alone each year. That's a huge drop, but 144 million is still a lot of fucking CDs (almost 400,000 a day on average, over 16k per hour), plus they still consitute a huge chunk of the music industry's revenues. Hell, LPs are still being made and they sell one-tenth of what CDs do. There's still demand for CDs, so they're still going to be made, and the music industry is not trying to force everyone to adopt mp3s and/or streaming. That's the entire point I was trying to make, yet you make a federal case out of one little blurb in my post in order to... what, exactly?

Didn't really mean to make a big deal about your original blurb, but I originally read it and thought you were denying the real decline of the CD format in the Music industry in the face of other digital options.  Now that you've elaborated and going back and reading it again I can see that was not your intention.   Apologies for the misunderstanding.