Moggy wrote:In 3500BC, Ugg the Caveman proclaimed that his stone circle business would last forever. “They just finished Stonehenge!” he exclaimed “Stone circles keep appearing, surely that’s evidence that we will be building stone circles forever?”
As much as Ugg sounds like an upstanding gent, this isn't analogous to what I said at all. I'm saying that right now physical releases appear to be profitable because right now they are still being produced and released.
@BID0, I think Vinyl confuses the issue because we're not talking about specific types of physical media, we're talking about the existence of any physical media at all due to a demand for it instead of digital. If CDs disappear entirely, the existence of Vinyl means that a physical collector's market still exists. The problem is assessing how much of that market is driven by something specific to Vinyl (sound quality etc.), and how much is driven by a general preference for a physical collection (something that can then be compared to games).
Films might be easier in that respect, so my question is do you expect all physical media of film to disappear, and if so how soon?
Anecdotally I would say that the physical collector's market in videogames is bigger than in films, although a lot of that is in retro games.