This is misplacing cause and effect. The shift to digital has been happening for years now. They cut physical production because fewer people were buying it.
and of course, this will be misconstrued. The executives will shout “look! people don’t want physical ownership!” and the push to digital rentals will continue… and result in even higher prices when they pull a Netflix.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Execs genuinely couldn‘t care less about what people want. They are the architects this trend away from physical media.
I’m making the prediction that any hardware that isn‘t essentially just a screen that connects to the internet will become more and more expensive to the point no one can afford them. Major brands that we all know and use today will withdraw from manufacturing end consumer products.
I‘m guessing 10 years from now virtually everyone will be forced into cloud service subscriptions for gaming because the hardware to run these games won‘t be sold to us anymore. For a while Chinese companies might try fill the void the likes of Nvidia and AMD left but that will be short lived too.
You will go retro and learn to take care of your soon old timer hardware that will become ever more pricey to fix as spare parts get more rare and ridiculously expensive expensive or you will own nothing and be happy with that.
Yes this is all speculative but it‘s a vision of the future that becomes more and more obvious to me by the day.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Alternatively, the bubble collapses and the video game industry needs to be rebuilt
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it goes all digital next generation I won’t be bothering. I didn’t leave gaming, gaming is leaving me.
Cool, cool, plenty of backlog to get through…