Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[Shiken]

DPsx7 said:

Shiken said:

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.

Those aren't all major titles. Hope you're not one of those people who hate everything else and will gloat if XB ever gets it right. Doom is the only potential loss and that's not a sure thing yet.

That's why I don't think it'll do as well as people want. The market isn't ready for all digital. Nothing was learned from the XBO launch. Sure, they can always buy discs and goof around with this on the side so we'll see how it goes. Note that it's not the first time such a thing was offered and nothing so far has really been a hot item. Even if it doesn't crash and burn it's not going to affect me. Certainly isn't going to hurt disc sales.

Wow I don't even know what you are trying to do anymore on the gamepass topic.  You really need to check your definition of a big title of you think DOOM is the only potential loss.  But lets play devil's advocate here, even if Bethesda games do come to PS (they likely won't), they will still be day 1 on gamepass.  Your definition of gamepass is a joke and only serves to point out a bias against MS, or at the very least you would recognize the incredible value it serves without your sad downplay.

In fact, this isn't even about digital sales for you anymore it seems.

And a side note, no one said the market was ready for all digital.  I said they are easing us into it with digital only consoles, digital services with amazing value, and a younger generation that finds physical games a hassle overall (making them easier to mold).  The shift to all digital won't happen overnight, hell probably not even in next gen.  But it will happen in our lifetime.  It only becomes more evident as time goes on.