Future of Physical Media in consoles - end of disks?

[Pemalite]

Conina said:

Pemalite said:

Most games that install physically and register on Steam happily install offline.

Yeah, many some PC retail games still give that option.

But when I installed ELEX last year from 5 DVDs it took that long that I was going to abort the disc installation and download it instead.

By the way, my ELEX Collector's Edition is my second biggest game box, only the Mirror's Edge Catalyst box is bigger. Compared to them even my HL2 big box looks tiny:

I don't even have an optical drive in my PC anymore... Don't see the point.
Many PC cases don't even have an optical drive bay in them either.

I do have a USB BDXL slim drive for an emergency... But digital all the way for me on PC.

The last Physical game I bought on PC would have been StarCraft: Brood Wars... In the late 90's, which I eventually registered on Battle.net and turned it into a digital copy and have not bothered to use the discs since.

Console though I have a big physical collection, mostly to support my local games shop who in turn support me. (I.E. They bought an Xbox Series X and are putting it away just for me for release day.)