Anyone have insights on how physical copies totally died out on the PC market, but are still going strong on Console? I remember buying civ 5 on physical disc back in middle school, and even then the guy at GameStop was all surprised to be selling a hard copy of a PC game.all this time later, and you can still buy pretty much Amy major game on hard disc for consoles. Why?
I want to note that Starfield is digital-only and $70 priced (as opposed to Alan Wake 2 trying to at least give a legitimate reason and lower price), so we’re at the point where physical media is finally disappearing on console. The next gen likely won’t have disc variants, period, and I imagine we’ll see stores start to swap out physical games for the digital game giftcards. My local Super Target has already replaced the budget games section with magazines of all things and the game’s section is pretty barren outside of the endcap with the latest releases.