Vinyl records are making a surprising comeback in popularity. It looks like we might be heading towards a trend where physical media becomes more sought after in the future. As people realize that buying digital can lead to losing their purchases and that subscriptions often tie them down with subpar service, many will start to crave physical formats again. It might take a lot of frustration with digital for them to finally ditch it and embrace physical media once more.
I still have my collection of disks I burned during the late 90s and 2000s, a few hundred DVDs and CDs, still have an unopened box of 50 blank DVDs and 25 CDs, never burned Blu-ray. Now if I want to back up games and movies I just use big HDDs, got a few 10TB and 12TB HDDs with my GOG game backups and going to back up all my physical media eventually. The big HDDs are so cheap now that there is no need for blank DVDs or Blu-ray IMO. Also SD cards are so cheap now that can be used instead of CDs, just bought a few 256GB nice Lexar silver plus SD cards for 20$ each, not using them as backup but it's an option.
New physical games is still a 2-3 billion dollar industry, however if you look at the latest video by Mystic you can clearly see that we are in a 85% decline since 2008. For the moment i don't think physical drives are any problem when it comes to Playstation, since Sony produce their own drives. But it's just a matter of time, since Xbox is moving away from physical media, Sony will for sure follow in the same direction eventually. LG recently shut down their last factory producing Blu-Ray drives, but they said that the stock would last way into 2026. We will probably see that all the major publishers will move away entirely from physical media going forward to 2030, but smaller independent publishers will be more important than ever. Just recently Play-Asia made an exclusive deal with Koei Tecmo to release the physical version of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black in Asia. This game will not get a physical release elsewhere, so it just shows that we are in for a major change when it comes to how physical games is sold and distributed. We already have Limited Run and plenty of others, but this will just expand over the coming years. Just like Vinyl records, physical games will not disappear, it will just be harder and more expensive to buy them in limited quantities.
until you can stream all the games at the same price as music and movies I can't see them replacing physical. Digital downloads for movies didn't replace cd sales as the cost was still too similar, it wasnt till streaming where they took a nosedive. And even then they still produce cds. I can't see it happening as not being an option for at least 20 years honestly
Haha...i remember Napster and Kazaa, and waiting literally all day on dial-up to download a few songs. Had to go to my friends with a faster set-up for downloading/burning movies, though. 😅
That’s not the PS6 when PS6 is here that’s when you’ll know if Sony is going all digital nothing is yours either digital or physical you can put the physical copy of Concord game that was delisted digital it won’t play so what’s that tell you about owning the games? There are hundreds of other games that needs online play if nobody joins you can’t play the game so stop being a physical fan when they aren’t yours you only own the disc but the license isn’t
That is not entirely true, because there are still tons of disc and cartridge based games you can play without the need of any patch. This goes especially from smaller distributors like Limited Run etc, that sells you the complete physical game. There may be updates, but it's not mandatory to play the actual game. There is a website which regularly lists new games, it's called doesitplay. Here you can check if they require any download to play.
Vinyl records are making a surprising comeback in popularity. It looks like we might be heading towards a trend where physical media becomes more sought after in the future. As people realize that buying digital can lead to losing their purchases and that subscriptions often tie them down with subpar service, many will start to crave physical formats again. It might take a lot of frustration with digital for them to finally ditch it and embrace physical media once more.
nah, niche market
My barber used to sell dvds of a guy going into a movie with a camcorder and he would record the latest movie and sell it for like a $1. lol
Ill stop buying PS and Sony when they move digital. Literally when that day hits 90 percent of people will move to Steam.
sure bud. cry more
I still have my collection of disks I burned during the late 90s and 2000s, a few hundred DVDs and CDs, still have an unopened box of 50 blank DVDs and 25 CDs, never burned Blu-ray. Now if I want to back up games and movies I just use big HDDs, got a few 10TB and 12TB HDDs with my GOG game backups and going to back up all my physical media eventually. The big HDDs are so cheap now that there is no need for blank DVDs or Blu-ray IMO. Also SD cards are so cheap now that can be used instead of CDs, just bought a few 256GB nice Lexar silver plus SD cards for 20$ each, not using them as backup but it's an option.
I just got legal documents in on a CDR like 3 months ago. So now we have to use SD cards.
New physical games is still a 2-3 billion dollar industry, however if you look at the latest video by Mystic you can clearly see that we are in a 85% decline since 2008. For the moment i don't think physical drives are any problem when it comes to Playstation, since Sony produce their own drives. But it's just a matter of time, since Xbox is moving away from physical media, Sony will for sure follow in the same direction eventually. LG recently shut down their last factory producing Blu-Ray drives, but they said that the stock would last way into 2026. We will probably see that all the major publishers will move away entirely from physical media going forward to 2030, but smaller independent publishers will be more important than ever. Just recently Play-Asia made an exclusive deal with Koei Tecmo to release the physical version of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black in Asia. This game will not get a physical release elsewhere, so it just shows that we are in for a major change when it comes to how physical games is sold and distributed. We already have Limited Run and plenty of others, but this will just expand over the coming years. Just like Vinyl records, physical games will not disappear, it will just be harder and more expensive to buy them in limited quantities.
until you can stream all the games at the same price as music and movies I can't see them replacing physical. Digital downloads for movies didn't replace cd sales as the cost was still too similar, it wasnt till streaming where they took a nosedive. And even then they still produce cds. I can't see it happening as not being an option for at least 20 years honestly
"honestly"
Haha...i remember Napster and Kazaa, and waiting literally all day on dial-up to download a few songs. Had to go to my friends with a faster set-up for downloading/burning movies, though. 😅
they never will
That’s not the PS6 when PS6 is here that’s when you’ll know if Sony is going all digital nothing is yours either digital or physical you can put the physical copy of Concord game that was delisted digital it won’t play so what’s that tell you about owning the games? There are hundreds of other games that needs online play if nobody joins you can’t play the game so stop being a physical fan when they aren’t yours you only own the disc but the license isn’t
That is not entirely true, because there are still tons of disc and cartridge based games you can play without the need of any patch. This goes especially from smaller distributors like Limited Run etc, that sells you the complete physical game. There may be updates, but it's not mandatory to play the actual game. There is a website which regularly lists new games, it's called doesitplay. Here you can check if they require any download to play.
Relax dude you don't need to date yourself, we know your old XD
My entire Street used to come to me for burned movies back in the day. It got a bit overwhelming after a while.