Why do Disk Drives matter?

[Chrkeller]

RolStoppable said:

Chrkeller said:

Not even a little bit.  I did a quick google search and Swift has sold 137,000,000 digital albums.  Sorry, selling 500k records is a drop in the bucket.  

And yeah, I don't see physical being available in 2040+.  I just don't.  

Fact is that physical music sales in the USA are increasing again after they hit rock bottom, so in other words, the current trend is contradicting the conclusion of an eventual all-digital future. Taylor Swift was brought up to disprove your point about the supposed natural cycle where young people who are allegedly all-digital will replace preceding generations.

You are betting against Taylor Swift. You are brave.

For starters you are assuming only young people listen to Swift.  And yeah, she has a lot of young fans, but dude old people listen to Swift as well.  My wife is a huge fan. 

And according to YouTube they have over 2,000,000,000 people a month who consume music via digital.  Lol.  

And yep, I can easily see an all digital future.  Have you seen the Li-Fi research?  In theory 220,000 mbps...   want to talk about lossless media via digital, there you go.  

Edit

And has Nintendo released a Zelda physical collection (Zelda, Zelda II, LttP, Ocarina and Majora) on the Switch?  Or is it digital only behind a paywall?  Hmm, digital only behind a paywall.  One step away from streaming.  

According to Nintendo Life, Switch digital sales grew 21% and is currently 46%.  Sounds like digital will be the majority of sales sooner than later.  

2022 data has ps5 at 80% digital. 

Steam and Epic are 100% digital and have over 200,000,000 active users.  

In the UK 89% of all game sales were digital.  

Conclusion -> physical is the future!!!  LMFAO.

Last edited by Chrkeller - on 03 September 2024