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>But cmon, there are highly upvoted posts in this thread speculating all video games are digital only within 5 years. Do you believe that? No, but simply becau
by Hamuko 6y ago
>But cmon, there are highly upvoted posts in this thread speculating all video games are digital only within 5 years. Do you believe that?
No, but simply because the console lifecycle is longer than 5 years and physical games can't die with the PS5 and Xbox SX around.
However, PC games are absolutely digital only already. Even if you buy a swanky collector's edition of a game, you don't get the game in the box. There's just a piece of paper with a download code. And unfortunately Sony and Microsoft have an incentive to kill physical games since they can get more of the profits if everyone just buys from their stores.
- tmotwu 6y agoI don't think we're disagreeing. Looking at this as the worst case, GameStop has 5 years of cash flow to transform their brand - as they should. And this is only for a single aspect of their business. PC was never their primary market for as long as they existed, so I don't think this was the dent to their cause.
- Rapzid 6y ago> 5 years of cash flow Physical sales are way, way, way down from 10 years ago already. It's only going to trend down further. I wouldn't call that a reliable source of cash flow.