Are physical games eventually going to die?

[Chrkeller]

IcaroRibeiro said:

SvennoJ said:

My local store has plenty DS and PS2's for sale. Heck you can find them at garage sales. It's not rare hardware

But for how long? I mean, my PS2 was presenting malfunction after less than 10 years of use. It's clear hardware has expiration date. In 30 years those piece of hardware will be relics and the amount of physical copies will be absolutely useless for most of customers

 We seems to have different definitions of preservation. Preservation for me means making it available to posteriority. Physical games of consoles are just a piece of plastic with no use whatsoever if you can't run the source code. Digital copies are clearly the only feasible way to make games from our generation available for our grandkids 

Yeah I was going to say something similar.  I think people are confusing collecting (personal ownership behind locked doors) and preserving (public and mass availability).  

For actual preservation digital has been game changing.  No idea what digital means to collectors.  I stopped collecting over a decade ago.  Too many cables, connections, controllers, console failures, games not working, etc.