hereforemnant posted... It's the entire culture of gaming & movies/social media that has moved us to quick consumerism & consumption of products that has pulled physical media into a more niche area.
PC gaming started the trend that began to doom us, old people will remember when you could go into stores & buy physical discs for WoW, PC games & lots of stuff. Then when disc trays started to get phased out of laptops & such, tower PCs began doing it as well. The console market is pretty much all that keeps physical media alive, & far too many people don't understand right to repair or ownership of physical media.
I'm just surprised that the people complaining about big tech & big corpo the most, never mention video games when they complain about the WEF or "you'll own nothing & like it" crowd. Not even a dismissive wank of acknowledgement about owning what you buy, just nothing. People just want to consume & move onto next item, so ownership of what we buy has fallen to the wayside.
Video game console hardware spending also peaked in 2008.
I wonder how many people who think physical game sales are still good would open up a video game store.