Yeah... for global gaming market disk sales are like under 5% of total sales, even for consoles it's like 10%. It's a nice option for you and me, a collectors item, aftermarket sales, a hedge for digital "ownership" rugpulls? For publishers and devs it's just a cost that doesn't even justify itself, because nobody is buying or putting their money where their mouth is. How low would the marketshare have to go for them to be justifying pulling the plug. Nobody really gave a shit about physical until few days ago.

Plus 90% of the games that come with disk option these days are irredeemable AAA slop anyway. Digital distribution enabled the indie scene where all the innovation is these days. if we had disks we we wouldn't have indie studios. Companies like EA, Sony, and Ubisoft would dominate totally and act as gatekeepers, because only they would have the resources pay for the upfront cost of publishing to make the damn things. Digital won, accept the caveats and be happy about the upsides.

If it was actually the consumers choice then Sony would continue offering the PlayStation with a disc drive and physical media since that is what the vast majority of consumers chose despite it costing more to purchase.

I am sorry, but "former" seems to be the keyword of the nonsense stated...

And have you ever heard of merchandize as CD, tapes, vinyl, mugs, t-shorts, statuettes, etc., and why it exists? Why some would love... to keep it closer to heart in hands...

My choice is for human art, dear "former writer'...

Realistically we've chosen to have pricing tightly controlled and to no longer own anything.

Both these things can be fixed without needing physical copies, but we'll have to fight for it.

Nonsensical quote, discs are also digital.

Really? I didn’t have a choice. You can play the games they offer as digital downloads, or you can not play the games. There is no “or you can buy the BluRay.”

I do prefer digital over all but that's because I play on PC now where those digital purchases will last generations at a time. My console game purchases are nearly always physical because I like to sell them on when I'm finished with them.

Over the last 10 years, I bought 5 digital games and played through dozens of physical. I guess it’s on me.