Do you think physical gaming media (discs, cartridges, cards) will eventually be completely obsolete

🙄ooO(🌞📡🌏💢💻⚡🎮📺)　

It is not unlikely that the world will return to an offline environment or the day when you can take your Game Boy out of the shed and put batteries in it to play.

Remember when the Xbox One was revealed and everyone complained for the "always online" to play games; and now its enforced in multiple games or hidden with Denuvo or some form of DRM, and no matter how much we argue those affect perfomance and official downloads of said games, they keep putting that into games. I have no doubt at some point physical video games will be extremelly rare or just for collection, like

We already see a trend were some physical copys just PROMPT you to download an update to even play the darn game.
As for the main topic, I do believe it will take 1 or 2 more gens, specially given how bigger and bigger games keep getting, and the evolution for the physical copys can only contain so much. Otherwise we might start to go back to "catridges" by using hard drives/usbs for games distribution, instead of discs.

I thought it already happened. Aren't physical copies already just for collecting? Almost no games are released in a finished state with all the bugs worked out anymore. Don't you need to download updates for pretty much every game you buy, even if it is a physical copy? I think some games don't even fit on the disc and instead of giving you multiple discs like they used to, I think it just requires you to connect to the internet to download the rest.

I'm not sure about this since I haven't purchased any physical games in a long time, but that is how I thought things have worked for the last couple generations of PC, Xbox, and Playstation. I feel like physical copies are pretty much just for collecting for people that like to display the boxes or have the extra books and stuff that come in them.

As long as there's enough demand for them or collectors willing to pay much more for special editions I think they will stay.

I'm sure publishers would love for physical media to stop existing altogether. But it's never gonna happen.

sadly yes.
all games are broken day 1, whats the point of a hard copy when it doesnt work without an update.
i used to be a hard copy only person. but whats the point when its broken day 1.
then think about how profitable it is for company's to sell products that cannot be resold.
in time company's will do away with the physical sales, but that doesnt mean we wont be putting them on disc.
time+technology=oppression.
when cell phones came out if they didnt have replaceable battery's the world would of thrown a shit fit. but they slowly made the switch,
people used to bitch about being on camera out in public, but now there tv watches them watch it.
technophiles lead us down a rabbit hole.