I disagree. The main selling point of a console is not the physical media. There are consoles out there that do not even have that feature. It’s the convenience of buying a console once and then knowing everything will run fine. No tinkering, just start it up with your controller and game.

People have fast Internet connections nowadays and can just buy it online and download. You probably have patches to download anyway. It might be even more convenient because you don’t have to go to the store or insert the disk to play. I don’t think people are sharing games that much anymore.

I think the average guy does not care. There might be some complaints at first like with the iPhone dropping the headphone jack, but then people are just gonna be fine with it. Consoles are not going anywhere. They are the iPhones of gaming, small selection but great optimization for that specific hardware.