Future of gaming in a all digital future

[BraLoD]

SvennoJ said:

BraLoD said:

Physical media wil definitely become niche, as it's already started happening.

I fear we will only have collector's editions and limited prints and physical media will be absurdly expensive.

Digital was once supposed to make games cheaper, but that never happened and may actually just make physical more expensive.

I'm already having problem finding physical copies decently around here for very recent games like Elden Ring or even Diablo 4!

It's the same with (4k)blu-ray, getting harder and harder to get. Oppenheimer currently unavailable, have to import. It just came out! Prices keep going up, BF / Cyber Monday deals are all very weak and very few.

Maybe it's also the economy. I haven't seen any good BF deals, and even for 30% off it's mostly Amazon Prime members only. They do have Elden Ring, 15% off! The PS5 physical edition that is, XBox digital code edition, currently out of stock??? No PS4 nor XOne edition available.

Diablo 4 is in stock, full price.

Amazon Brasil only have 2 third party marketplace stores selling Elden Ring on PS5 for quite a lot more than the original full price.

Same with Diablo 4, in stock, but also over the official price from the marketplace, must be an import, maybe it's not printed here.

Elden Ring I know for sure pops up here and there at more normal prices, but mostly it just doesn't anymore nowdays.

That used to happen with niche titles like Disgaea but popular AAA games it's news to me, could always find them on sales on multiple stores and a bunch of used copies.