Rockstar boss is literally already talking about streaming being the future short term (in 3 years) so they can get up to 10x the players they have currently (and the have the most successful game of all time).

Streaming will soon replace digital downloads and a lot of the people who defend physical media dying for no reason whatsoever will get mad and be told by the streaming shills that the times changed and they have to accept it and stop crying.

That'll be happening before 2035 if killing physical media is allowed like people are letting it to be.

Square Enix report 90% of their game sales are digital.
• Download unit sales - 6.65M (90.1%)
• Packaged unit sales - 730k (9.9%)
Sales from April 1 - June 30, 2026

Also no physical software is not that bad, the thing is what troublesome is what next ...Thanks to high prices for hardware related products the step to 'only cloud streaming' is going to be the norm fast or they will push for it hard.

Being able to resell is something that is a point to physical games (even on disc). 

Market competition I would say isn’t really a thing unless other entities are allowed to make their own copies and sell. Otherwise it will just be vendors selling at a loss and that isn’t a sustainable model. 

Ownership is an illusion for digital media. At best you can see physical games as a transferable license, otherwise software piracy wouldn’t be illegal (if you truly own it you should be allowed to create copies to your hearts content). 

So in the end convenience wins and downloads are ”better” if you have to install it anyway. This with the exception for cartridges that can play the game as easily as just popping it into your console and playing directly off it. And in the end cartridges will be gone soon also. 

What would stop me from playing my physical games? Because its very easy to stop people from playing their digital ones.

Market competition is real and a very relevant factor, it's also something that directly influences digital pricing when physical gets way cheaper, digital needs to go into better and more frequent sales periods.

You can think something "wins", but that's your take, I don't think it comes remotely close, but that's also my take.

Consumers rights is just one of the things.

Much higher game prices.

Lame ass deals " yaay 40% of a 90euro  game on psn i get for 20 physical" 

Ads in games( mark my words it will happen)

Ever getting higher subscribtion cost + another "ad free" one.

And ofc delistings that will happen a lot more.

Ps5/6servers will get shut down one day.

Steam has those same issues? Noo it has not.

Ps6 will be a bigger dissaster then the ps3 was.

The market is moving to digital but you might be right. Some changes happen quite fast and others might occur much more slowly. Do you think that Sony failed to do market research and just make a bunch of assumptions on this one?