This won't happen anytime to soon. But i do see it +5 years from now which gives you enough time to find a new job lol.

Digital Distribution is very good, not only for our pockets but also our environment. I see no need for having physical copies of games when our internet speed is rapidly increasing we should have no problems downloading these games, Hopefully the Ps4 and Next Xbox do both copys. I much prefer downloading my games, even though Ps3 does not have a big Lineup of retail games on Psn i do appreciate this.

Though this is an option i would much prefer if games were cloud based just like onlive :) no downloads and play instantly

i like my physical disks and nice game box with badass covor art thank you

@Cwalk

Dont worry only very few countries have the necessary bandwidth caps and download speeds to make disc based gaming obsolete very few people realize that there are more country's than usa shocking i know. Outside of usa there are 3mb-10mb download speeds at $30/$50 a month and don't get me started on the lose your account or the account has been band crap or even the server shutdown bs that can happen which in turn you lose you games you payed for. Physical copy king to the wolves but sheep love digital crap until they see the light.

Won't you think of the environment?

This is a case of people not liking change. Our generation grew up loving our game cartridges/discs. Going to the story and seeing the awesome game boxes, bring it home and popping what looked so beautiful to us into our consoles and playing these amazing games, creating fond memories attached to them.

We have strong feelings attached to the idea of having these physical copies of games, collecting them and putting them on display. But honestly it's not worth it. We have to accept that times change. We only create more problems the harder we fight the inevitable.

Anyways, there will likely be specialty vendors in existence that will allow you to buy a physical copy of the game still, it just won't be something mass produced, since the market will dwindle. Likely small boxes with games stored on a memory card.

And that's when people take a stand. Games aren't quite the necessity something like Gas is. If Steam started to do bad things to try and control the market for profit, gamers would take a stand and boycott them. People can live without games for a month or two, it's not a problem. But a company can't afford to lose most of it's profits for that long.