Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[Shiken]

DPsx7 said:

Shiken said:

Even Sony specifically reported that over half their revenue has been digital in 2019 (without even including PS Plus games).  You can he in denial all you want.  It won't change what is coming and the demand of digital is already higher than that of physical.

As for pre orders, yeah you can do that digital as well.

And holy shit if you think Gamepass is a lazy way of doing BC.  You do realize it focuses on current gen games, with new MS IPs day one...right?  Even EA Access is included now.  Given you don't even know what gamepass really is, I think I will end this conversation here.  You will clearly twist whatever you need to in order to support what you want to be true.

And again, that revenue includes things that cannot be physical so it's not an honest representation. Hell if a season pass is $99 (I dunno what they average) that's gonna offset 2 physical copies. The only way to do it is strip out all the 'extra' stuff and worry about the base game on disc versus the base game digital. Will they do that? Probably not, income is income and since we're not getting rid of either format it's just unnecessary work.

You come across as the type of person who misreads the data and acts like it can't be any other way.

Oh boy now you have another method to buy the same Gears, Halo, Forza combo. There's a bunch of fans who desperately want this to be huge but it's really not. Yep, stubborn people tend to run off before the topic is over. Whatever.

I was thinking more along the lines of Fable 4, Elder Scrolls, Stanfield, Fallout, DOOM, Wolfenstein, etc.  And that is just from one recent acquisition.  You desperately want to try to downplay it, but it only makes shows how stubborn you are.  And since Gamepass is a digital service, it is well within the topic at hand.  But hey, if you wanna pretend like gamepass is "a poor attempt at BC" then you are free to do so.  Just don't act suprised if you ever step back into reality.

On the topic of physical games, I truly hope you are right on that.  I always opt for physical games when the option is there.  But with more games needing day one patches, growing popularity of digital, and the weaning process already being started by console makers...the writing is on the wall.