What does this mean for us? Well, pretty much nothing if you're a normal consumer of video games. Massive games can be downloaded onto your console's hard drive just as effectively as buying those games up at the store, and without the risk of catching a deadly disease from the Typhoid Mary or Gary that's minding the Walmart counter. It's probably two to three years before physical more or less goes away, and it has probably accelerated that timescale a bit.' It makes sense.
Said Braben, 'We've seen an acceleration in the transition from physical to digital. Physical copies of games might soon be a thing of the past, at least according to Frontier Developments CEO David Braben.
