Are physical games eventually going to die?

[Leynos]

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 

My local store is still selling Atari 2600 and Bally Astrocade games. I will say it again. Go to one of the million Hard Offs in Japan and aisles and aisles of retro and new games as far as the eye can see. So DS has plenty more time to be sold in stores.