Marty Chinn
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It makes perfect sense, and you have no rebuttal because the figures speak for themselves.
Physical media sales are shrinking at a rate that if it continues at its current YoY rate will see its revenue value halved in size over the next 5 years. Meanwhile digital services of all kinds are growing strongly.
This thread is about the debate on UHD Blu-ray inclusion in a games console, so it makes sense to see how relatively important that feature is for driving future profit projections.
To which the numbers say its low value now and very likely to be of diminishing importance in the years ahead. There is no ambiguity about this, particularly if you bear in mind the miniscule size of the UHD media market compared to legacy formats like DVD.
I'm familiar with the pro-physical media arguments, and I'm not unsympathetic because I do like the format(s), but honestly, the writing is on the wall.
Try and find some recent (post 2014) positive figures for Blu Ray software sales, there aren't any. The evidence indicates that it peaked around 2013 and since that year it has joined DVD on the backslide. That considered, why would anyone believe that UHD Blu-Ray is going to do any better, being gated as it is by the available of matching UHD TV's.
No they don't make any sense because you're not comparing comparable sales figures. You specifically call out physical media for movies, but don't compare it to physical games. You compare it to all video game software and that's meaningless. That video game software sales doesn't tell you what portion is physical. Hell it doesn't even tell you what portion is console games since mobile gets lumped into that software sales figure. Simply showing video game software sales are up doesn't actually tell you what is up? All that growth could be mobile sales while console sales are in decline.
To actually have a valid comparison, you would need to show what percentage console physical media sales are and what percentage is digital sales and show the comparison between previous years to show the trend between the two formats.
So again, your comparison doesn't have any weight because you didn't compare anything meaningful. I'm not saying the other person was correct; I'm saying your argument was meaningless.