[crimsonnoodle58]

I just told my young boys about this sad news.

They've recently gotten very into visiting retro gaming stores and buying DS, Wii and other console games.

The death of physical media means the death of video game stores (eg. EB games), and the death of the second hand market, the very market which allows retro gaming stores of this generation to thrive.

The kids of my boys won't be able to experience the games of the next generation of consoles because their game stores will have been shut and entire generations of games no longer available unless said company decides to re-release them again.

That's just games.

Movies have a similar problem. I can see Archive.org becoming very popular for accessing what publishers have decided they no longer want, or care for, being available.