That is my thought exactly as well. My backlog of games I own/want to play is probably enough to entertain me for years. Once those years are done, Im sure there are a few games I have yet to acquire to fill some more time. I dont forsee me running out of stuff to actually play. Once the big console companies start going to digital only, I as well will be on the boycott bandwagon. I hardly play my PS3/Wii now as it is other than to entertain the kids. Missing the next latest-and-greatest system out there will not really bother me.
And since you mentioned EB (and in a sense Funcoland) I was just explaining that exact fact to my stepson yesterday. Both those places felt like a real gamer's store to me. And thats what has slowly been phased out of Gamestop is its past. Now its mostly a bullshit company catering to the recent FPS/every sports title in the world fanbois. I actually blew up on one of their employees yesterday (poor girl). She was trying to get me to pre-order one of the 2013 football pieces of shit and RE 6 I think. I let her know (without mixing my words) that those sorry ass games were the reason I hate new world gaming and they are the downside of the trade in business filling the used shelves with nothing but the same crap.