I kind of felt the same way, still stuck with that old mentality but then I started thinking. I don’t buy CDs, DVDs or Bluerays anymore and I don’t miss them and the house is less cluttered. Don’t have to worry about the media being damaged, I think once I get use to it I will probably prefer it that way. Anyways it’s about the gaming experience as long as that’s intact I think it will catch on. Also for me I’m not really a game collector, I like collecting the game systems and have a few key games to show off the systems so having the media in hand is not as important for me as it is for most of the collectors here. In fact even though I own a certain game I mostly end up playing the emulation of it mostly because of convenience, I know you losses some of the nostalgia by playing an emulation but for the most part the experience of the game is still in tacked. I also find appealing with cloud gaming is that I can pick up the game I was playing on my TV or computer and play the same game on my portable device being it be a laptop, tablet or smartphone, having all your game saves moving from device to device is a major plus. I found a used Onlive micro system for the TV at Goodwill for only $29, I going to check it out by playing the free stuff for now. If I like it I will probably pay the $99 for the year to play all their games for the year but I ‘m still not ready to leave my Xbox360 yet and I will always love pulling out one of the vintage systems and I will still go to the flea market or yard sale in search for a deal on a game I know nothing about. The future is coming weather you like it or live in denial, the video game industry is bigger than the movie industry and the movie and gaming industry will be dependent on the infrastructure the money is there someone will step up to the plate to collect that money.
