Chrkeller said:
RolStoppable said:
I doubt that this statement can be backed up by data. CD players in cars are missing the point. They are inconvenient, hence a thing of the past. But it's different within one's own four walls, so physical music keeps being a thing. When looking at sales data of music, it's interesting that CD sales have been declining, but vinyl sales have kept growing year after year. When you combine the two formats in the USA, then the physical market seems to have hit its bottom around 2020 and been growing since. So much for the all-digital future, especially when you consider that young people are pretty much the biggest age group when it comes to physical purchases of music. My takeaway from this, as is the same when it comes to physical video games, is that more and more people have realized that optical media are shit. |
I could (probably) substantiate via research but really it is common sense. Anyone who has kids can see how much the market has changed. My kids, and their friends, are all digital. Tablets, fornite, kindle, phones, steaming etc. If you want to think kids are walking around with physical media, lol. Physical is niche and will, at best, stay niche. I'll be shocked if the ps6 even has a optical drive. |
No, you could not substantiate it, so it's okay if you don't bother in the first place. As for your kids and their friends, you should know that the plural of anecdote is not data.
