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Has streaming made physical movies/music obsolete and will it happen to games?

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seether:
A blu ray of a new release costs £14.99 - for that single physical release.

A subscription to Netflix costs £5.99 for many, many movies and TV shows - AND you can watch on your phone, tablet or laptop as well as the TV.

A new CD album costs £10.00 - for that single physical release.

A subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited with access to 50 million songs (just about anything you could ever think of is on there) - costs £7.99 a month.


How long until we can say something like ...

A new video game e.g. Crackdown 3 costs £49.99 - for that single physical release.

A subscription to Xbox Game Pass with access to over 100 games and this new release costs £7.99 a month.


At some point you have to see that the value proposition of a streaming service is far far outweighing picking up a disc of something. I believe we're there with music, I believe millions of people think we're there with video, and I believe in the next generation or two we will be there with games. Mass market adoption of streaming services for all forms of entertainment. One fee for the lot and versatility across multiple devices as oppose to a chunk of money for one disc that you can use only in a specific disc drive and not on the go.

Music streaming is already everywhere - it just makes sense. You can even listen to the very latest new albums and singles, unlike with video streaming services that lack the latest movie and tv shows day and date.

Xbox game pass has been worth it multiple months just to play Forza Horizon 4 or Crackdown 3 or State of Decay 2. You could pay for one month and play one game to completion and feel you got your money worth. And this is just the infancy of game streaming as a service and value proposition.

Cartagia:
You can probably find the same discussion amongst our members in this post you made about 2.5 weeks ago:

https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,10042.msg165020.html#msg165020

oldgamerz:
Thanks anyway for the link @Cartagia this is after all another repeat from the same OP

I hope not

I don't like the radio for my music tastes I only listen to the radio if I have no other option, in music in my opinion It can never be enjoyed fully unless you got the CD and you can listen to that whenever you want.

 Plus the FM radio and some internet radio has commercials and you can't really choose a song on most internet radio, although I did hear of an online radio that does requests, but nothing beats the experience of having the CD recorded on your own devices.

With the disc, vinyl or song you can listen to whatever and whenever you want.

weirdfeline:
Yes for movies and music. It will happen to games but not yet. ISPs need to get their shit together first.

Warmsignal:
No. Physical items will never be "obsolete". Vinyl records have made a comeback, and not because people forgot how to download a song. It's because people like the physical mediums, which are often of a higher quality playback than any streaming service with compression issues and dependency on remote access to their purchases, and they also enjoy the artwork and liner notes. There will always be a market for a physical representation of media that could otherwise be simply downloaded. The casuals will download, but the hardcore fans will always spring for the tangible option, and I don't see those options going away any time soon.

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