How do you watch movies or listen to music? Video games will have to be like other forms of media or die out.

To everyone saying they won't support digital media for games, you will support it or you won't game anymore. Simple as that. Do you not play games on your phone? Do you listen to mp3s? Do you have Netflix? The sooner gaming goes the way of digital the sooner is becomes more affordable.

If the video game industry transitions to digital based content then I'm out.

Wow, for anyone who doubts that this is the future, please look towards Steam. It's not going to happen in 5 years, but I'll be shocked if our console ecosystem exists like it does now in 13-14 years.

Yea I could go back to PC gaming and just use the service on that PC. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Steam is great. Aslong as I can download games onto a hard disk I'm happy going digital. Streaming is just not going to cut it though. I haven't tried PS Now as it's not available in Australia but I can't imagine it ever becoming lag free.

I imagine they'd intergrate together. Where you can do the current streaming for an amount of time, or play off the cloud as it downloads and installs to allow for seamless purchase and play.

No they won't. We will still pay the same prices. The companies will keep the reduced costs to themselves. As for your comments. 1 No, 2 yes, but I still buy the CD's and have perminate hard backups from HDD failures, 3 no, I buy DVD's and BD's then rip them myself when I need to watch stuff on the go. I probably won't game anymore. I never like trusting companies with property. Not to mention my shit internet that goes down every week. I still buy my PC games phsycially. I have to activate some games through steam etc. But at least I can install them faster.

You mean like them region locking their systems? Oh wait that's Nintendo...