Whats killing the physical game market?

material decay

>What's killing the horse and carriage market?

zoomers

>technological evolution makes X outdated
>wonder why X is dying off
sub-zero IQ

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Name one way that digital is better than physical besides mere convenience

what? do you know something I don't? should I sell my stock?

coronavirus

Meanwhile in Japan....

Amerimutts BTFO Yurocucks BTFO
The west has no soul.

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>walk into game store
>half the store is filled with Chinese rick and morty and gaymer merch
>the game section is filled with useless trade ins and old games no one actually cares like battlefield hardline
>finally find a game thats good/new
>bother you constantly about their trade ins and points bullshit
the digital market is the main killer, but they aint doing any favors to themselves by making an already inconveniencing option even more tedious and gay.

>besides mere convenience
That's literally the only reason it needs. Why do you think Netflix destroyed the rental market? Because of mere convenience.

what these articles are always missing is that the physical games industry isnt going to be literally nonexistent, it will just no longer be ale to support bloated shitty companies like gamestop. That model at that scale is dead, but there is still room for small stores that deal in both retro and new stuff.

>Online blogger writes concerns to online community
Retail is still an insanely huge market in rural/poorer broadband-lacking areas of the world. Even in first-world countries.

>what is killing the physical market?
>buys a physical game, it’s a cardboard disc with a code to download online
Answered your question

I'll stop buying video games the moment they stop doing physical releases for games.

Back when Best Buy had Gamepass, I bought shitloads of physical games new because I got a good discount, they canceled the program and I've basically got no reason to buy physical anymore.

This because of convenience. I honestly sometimes just don't play games because I have to swap discs

I'll buy physical if I get a bunch of cool crap with it. Otherwise I don't really see the point.

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>t. 400 pound retard
I bet you were raised on iphones, ipads, and netflix because your parents hated dealing with you, zoomer.

I work marketing for a major game publisher. It's insane how many people still rely on physical stores for impulse buys.

you're funny man

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forgot to mention, one entire fucking wall in my local gamestop is fucking funko pops. and i have yet to see anyone buy one of these in my life.

Console/PC being tightly integrate with the internet connection.

There's a gas station called Royal Farms near me that has self-service checkout stations inside. I've seen these at grocery stores but never gas stations. If I go to buy an energy drink or protein bar, I don't want to spend 10 minutes being asked about rewards cards, points, discounts, or the possibility of buying candy because "we're running a special, buy 2 for $3" or some shit. Just let me get my drink in peace. I'd be all over a Gamestop store that lets me go in, pick out my game, ring it up myself, pay, and leave without being hassled. If I have a PowerUp Rewards™ card, I can swipe it before paying. Simple as that. Until that happens, I'm perfectly content with Amazon.

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>meanwhile in Japan
Your picture is either from a used shop or 15 years ago, but either way it doesn't prove the point you're trying to make.
Unless it's that Japan's preference for physical media is a relic of the past, which is true.

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The west didnt have any real video game culture.Thats it. if it does, things like this dont happen. See Japan. It still has much physical "contents" and even arcades.

Westerners didnt like games that much. They are fine with all being digital.

If they stop doing physical releases would you buy a custom made case with original art laser printed on a blank DVD from my Etsy?

I am so glad that plastic worshippers are going extinct.

Convenience is the reason a majority of advancements in consumer tech have been created, especially in the past decade.

You can still google any new stuff all you want on the Japanese internet or IRL though. I picked that shit just because its easy to understand

Man, that Blockbuster had SOUL

>consumers drive the market
Fucking kek

I would never buy physical media that isn't a book anymore. It's slower and more hassle.

You've got cause and effect backwards here. The "gamer merch" and desperate self-advertising are a result of people not buying enough games from them.

convenience is the only reason most people need to switch services

I never said consumers drive the market, I said convenience drove the market in consumer tech.

Answer: The video games industry

Females. In the end, it's always females. The jews of gender.

I still buy physical when I can, albeit via online shopping 99.9% of the time.

So, what do those moon runes say?

>Reading comprehension

welcome to culture arts

More like the salt trite.

Remember how gamestop was for a good while selling games as "new", but the cases were empty and they would add it in after you checked out, from the same exact stock as used disks were kept in. all you would get from buying new is an original case, you werent even guaranteed a manual.
fuck em

I wonder why people get shit delivered to their home instead of driving to specialized stores nowdays

Where do you buy physical games when Gamestop dies?

Why is the west getting more and more soulless?

Walmart, any big electronics store
They've been a better alternative for ages now

Order them online for cheaper, just like until now.

i recognize that in my last sentence, but its not a long term solution to make their shit take even longer to buy and find in their stores, especially when its convenience thats killing their stores and brand. they need to offer something more meaningful than "trade in three games for another used game", since thats really only useful for poorfags and children.

Whose convenience?

They pulled that shit on me and I told them to go fuck themselves. I wasn't allowed in the store after that.

Man I sure fucking loved driving to a store to buy my 1s and 0s!

Jewish central banks have every country indebted to them. They own us.

Everyone's?

Digital games are simply superior. Storage capacity and download speeds aren't an issue with modern technology and since games come with day-1 patches and DLC, you're not getting much additional benefit by buying physical.

The few advantages physical has over digital is price and the ability to resell/lend. The price of digital media is artificially inflated to match the price of physical media (since physical media needs to include manufacturing, shipping and retailer costs). If they made digital games cheaper then most people would just buy that and their physical stock would go unsold. However physical retailers will often drop the price after a while or drop it slightly to undercut the competition, while the digitial equivalent available from the online store is still full price. This is just pure greed on the online store's part rather than a problem with digital media.

As for reselling/lending, we now have access to a wealth of information about a game before we buy it thanks to the internet. So the chances are you'll know whether you will enjoy a game before you buy it and you won't blindly be buying and returning games as often as you use to. Games also receive DLC after release, which means you may want to keep hold of older games. Also, a lot of games are now multiplayer or have multiplayer aspects, so you can't just lend a copy of the game to your friend since they need their own copy to play with you.