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Wman1996 said:

As long as the consoles have some add-on or built-in way to play physical games it won't end until said console no longer gets games. PS6 and Xbox 5 have a good chance of a disc drive add-on to play older games and potentially support a handful of native games. Physical games will mostly die out in the 2030s, though.
For movies? Mainstream physical media (DVD, Blu-ray, UHD Blu-ray) will probably die out in wide releases in the 2030s, maybe the early 2040s. There will be so many leftover DVDs in particular for people to use that we'll still see DVD releases (even limited ones) for decades. There are still blank VHS tapes out there that people use to make very limited quantities of small films.

VHS copies even if sealed will be blank by 2030s and 2040s. VHS does have a much shorter shelf life than a disc.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!