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There's always going to be a large market for physical copies of games, and I think if anything, games (At least on the PS4 and Xone) have shifted away from digital, with 50GB launch titles. Good luck downloading that with any sort of a bandwidth cap, or a slow internet connection. Even with music, you can still buy an album physical if you want. There's nothing, that I can think of, that's ever going to replace an old-fashioned tangible copy of your favorite games.
Not to mention, a pure digital gaming would just be a hollow shell. Imagine if older consoles had been pure digital machines, A Link to the Past, Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy VII, would basically be ghosts, unplayable by virtually anyone today (Unless they happened to still be on somebody's hard drive). People who want to keep the games that they love for the ages have only one choice, and that's a physical copy that isn't tied to servers. Not to mention the people who want to loan their games, the people who want to rent their games, people who want to trade their games, people who want to sell their games, among others. Unless digital distribution as we know it changes completely reinvents itself, these people will continue to buy solely physical games.
And at the core of things, in what way is digital a superior format than a physical copy? It's slight convenience at the expense of only partially owning your games.
Do I think digital will go away completely? No, not that I can see of, but I think if anything, the "digital only future" will seem pretty silly to gamers 30 years from now.
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