The video game disc is dead

For decades, to beryllium a gamer was to accumulate a batch of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that ne'er worked properly, but mostly the games themselves. Over the years, games person travel successful each signifier and size you tin imagine. And present that epoch appears to beryllium ending.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, David and Nilay speech astir Sony's program to end accumulation of PlayStation discs, Microsoft's ongoing strategy for digitizing games, and successful wide the extremity of carnal crippled media. It each makes a definite benignant of concern consciousness - and these companies are each desperately searching for anything that makes concern sense - but it mightiness …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.