Yeah… for global gaming market disk sales are like under 5% of total sales, even for consoles it’s like 10%. It’s a nice option for you and me, a collectors item, aftermarket sales, a hedge for digital “ownership” rugpulls? For publishers and devs it’s just a cost that doesn’t even justify itself, because nobody is buying or putting their money where their mouth is. How low would the marketshare have to go for them to be justifying pulling the plug. Nobody really gave a shit about physical until few days ago.

Plus 90% of the games that come with disk option these days are irredeemable AAA slop anyway. Digital distribution enabled the indie scene where all the innovation is these days. if we had disks we we wouldn’t have indie studios. Companies like EA, Sony, and Ubisoft would dominate totally and act as gatekeepers, because only they would have the resources pay for the upfront cost of publishing to make the damn things. Digital won, accept the caveats and be happy about the upsides.