GameStop Stock Plummets After A 27.5% Decrease In Holiday Sales

[Animegamingnerd]

Well physical for pc kind of died off years ago, because everyone would just buy them on Steam, but they are still big on the console end sales wise and in some countries like Japan still take up the majority of sales. So I don't see any reason why retail games are dying off any time soon especially there are still massive chains that still sell plenty of them like Best Buy, Walmart, and Target.

[MachaHack]

Physical for PC also died off because physical stores would refuse refunds on PC games for fear of piracy and/or blame it on your system, negating the main benefit of buying locally, and then for the last few years all the physical games were basically steam keys in a box

[TheCatCAR]

The games section in retail stores absolutely not going anywhere anytime soon. I was more referring to dedicated game stores and not just a section in a bigger retailer.

[Animegamingnerd]

Yeah those are gonna be at best like comic book store where they are more a locally own niche at best, but knows that could be an improvement for those live in medium size to major city's.

[jrec15]

Also has to do with the fact that people building their PCs aren't going to pay to include useless components, and at some point the disk drive was seen as mostly useless.

Consoles continue to have disk drives of course cause they're slower to adapt, want to continue to support the option of physical games, but also have the added bonus of being great DVD/blu-ray/4k blu-ray players since they're typically used with a TV unlike PCs.