>>16626228>People actually like owning the things they spend money onYet physical games are a dying medium and with PC games physical media is basically already dead. You don’t own the game, you own a digital license to play it digitally. Physical movies and physical music exist but are also practically a dead medium.
Streaming games still have a lot of major hurdles to work out. Latency being the biggest. But also the fact that streaming a simple 2D game wastes far more bandwidth than the actual game data would take up locally. But bandwidth in increasingly becoming less of a problem and everybody streams multiple video feeds to all their TVs and mobile devices constantly. The latency is more difficult to solve and I don’t think TCP/IP is the medium that will solve it for good. Google had a good idea before their service died in that the controller itself talked directly to the internet.
Anyways, it’s the future. Streaming already 90% replaced owning physical media for movies and music. Gaming is already part of the way there with digitally owned media. It’s the future whether you or I like it or not. Even I stopped buying physical console games because it’s inconvenient to switch games versus playing anything you want without having to move. All you’re buying is a cheap plastic case that’s brittle as a fuck, a tiny insert, and a disc that has only part of the data on it but is used as the license the play
