Discs aren't dead and might not ever be. Digital downloads are helpful because you cant scratch them and are much easier to obtain. But you cant let a friend borrow digital downloads or trade them in for a new game. When discs die, video games might die.

...well uh-duuuurr...

I think just the sheer novelty and ownership feeling of having a disc will keep them alive. Discs FTW!

Downloading games takes too much space on the memory, and god forbid that system crashed.

for music, i think the disc is dead(even though i still buy cds), but for games and movies, i dont think so.  why would i want to chuck over $60 when the thing can be gone in an instant if my HD crashes?  i would rather just lose the save then lose the game.  And no, i am not saying i would rather have a hard copy of something to sell back, cause i have never sold any of the games i buy.  Its just nicer to have something to hold!

Nothing will replace the feeling of opening a new game and reading the instruction manual on the way home from the store for me. I have only bought two full games digitally, Mass Effect and Gears of War, and only because the discs were hopelessly scratched and I wanted a replacement quickly. I do like DLC add-ons and XBLA games though, those are fun.

man, do people understand the size of games?for me to just buy digital media they would have to increase the size and drop the price of thumb drives and portable harddrives.Who doesnt enjoy opening a new game anyway? it is like opening a present on christmas lol

well thats obvious but the day when there are no discs is the day im not gonna play games as much cause i HATE downloading stuff

Discs won't die until Terrabyte harddrives are standard on everything. Digital downloads just take up too much memory.

Surveys are not an accurate representation of data.  Sales data is.

@ Luke Hudman

My thoughts exactley

disco might be dead, but discs will never die, otherwise the video game industry will surely plummet

I LOVE DISCS!!!!!! IF THEY GO AWAY I WILL QUITE GAMING AND IM SURE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WILL.

I very rarely buy download games. Maybe because I consider myself a bit of a collector, but I like having a physical copy of the game, along with the manual and whatever else comes with it. How would you sell a Collectors Edition of a game through download?

Also, until every gamer has a PC or console with a top tier processor and gigantic hard drive, hard copies will remain for the sake of saving space.

I couldn't live without the sweet scent of a freshly opened game.

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digital distribution is cool an all, but i like to have a disc to back up any of my info

digital distribution is cool an all, but i like to have a disc to back up any of my info

digital distribution is cool an all, but i like to have a disc to back up any of my info

digital distribution is cool an all, but i like to have a disc to back up any of my info

discs will never die it would put many places out of places out of business such as game stop and other stores.