They are probably not wrong with how successful gamepass is and how steam and epic store are hugely successful. Consoles may take longer time to get there but its going to happen.

As someone who's been buying retro games since Funcoland was a thing, I don't mind this at all. I've been living in the niche so long that it seems mainstream to me. haha

I honestly believe that trying to keep physical game disk media alive is a dying practice, mostly because we don't have control over who gets to manufacture what disks and where, something that also been changing over time, which is also completely out of our control.

We do however get to control how a game sells in general, be it physical or digital, and seeing as how Digital gaming is marching forward without any signs of stopping, I believe we should put more focus on stifling that level of control companies have over digital media, instead of fighting to the dying breath over physical discs, then once physical discs die out, we're left with companies in complete control of digital, and we haven't even started to fight back.

I'd rather we fight now than fight later on. 

All digital is a question of when, not if.

I'm 100% digital on ps4, ps5 and xbox one. Only place I am not digital is the Switch, because Nintendo's sharing program between multiple consoles is complete and utter junk.

I personally don't get the fear of digital.  I bought digital books on the Kindle over a decade ago...  they are still readily available on my device.  

I'd go full digital if
1) you truly own the game after purchase
2) it is cheaper than a physical copy

Both arguments are fair, because I can play any physically owned game forever, and digital games don't require physical materials and distribution, also no cut for the store selling the game.

In reality, however:
1) You never truly own digital games, they can be taken offline without warning or reason and there's nothing you can do about it
2) digital games are more expensive than physical games, sometimes even over twice as expensive. Also, no way of reselling.

A fully digital future is good for the wallet of publishers, and for no one else.

When I'm ready to buy a game, I buy it wherever it's cheapest, if that's digitally I'll buy it digitally if its the psychical version I'll buy the disc. Sony doesn't do a good job making it easy to gift someone games digitally other than a gift card. It's easier to say I want these games and they are on sale on Black Friday here and there.

One moment people be like "I welcome the digital future"
The next " Fuck you Nintendo for shutting down Eshop!"

Lol, enjoy this shitty future then. I'm not taking part of it. Physical for life.

Bold: That is not true, a game that is downloaded on the console can not be taken offline because it isn't online in the first place.

I honestly don't get the argument that you don't own digital games. If my console breaks years down the line and I can't get a replacement then I won't be able to play both the physical and digital games. The only difference is that with the physical games I have something made out of plastic that gives me the false feeling that I truely own it because I can hold it in my hands.

It's funny you mention books because that is the one medium that has completely bucked the digital craze. Everyone thought it would do to books what it's done to everything else and it just never took off beyond being the niche of the market.