This goes for games, music, movies, etc. - Kol Tregaskes

Indeed. It will be missed. - Amber, Random Time Lord

People are still buying landline phones. This will be a gradual process - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Johnny, of course. Landlines are a long way off from dying off. I would say physical boxed games/music/movies have a slightly shorter life. - Kol Tregaskes

The pre-owned market will be around beyond our life times. Why? Because you have a ton of people who will want to own those games from our time and before. You still have people buying Atari 2600 games. It may not be huge for Gamestop, but personally I don't care what happens to Gamestop because as a company they suck. And I can say that because I used to work for them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

The same way digital downloads are killing the DVD Market? My point is not everyone lives on the bleeding edge and not all moms can afford $90 for a new game. It has a long tail filled with young kids and casual gamers - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

And people like me still want to buy physical media. I personally would rather buy a game, dvd, cd, etc and then put it on whatever device and have the physical copy on the shelf. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Johnny, agree but that wasn't the question. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Kol - No, we shouldn't be allowed to sell our digital downloads, as there would be no real way to ensure we had removed all traces of them. That said, digital downloads should be considerably less expensive (notice I said should) than the physical media, as the manufacturing and material costs will be virtually nil. - Curtiss Grymala

Curtiss, you forget about the added cost of digital downloads. Servers and bandwidth. That will keep the cost pretty even. - Mathew™ one of a kind

If tied to an account, it would be nice to transfer the license of a game to another - Rodfather

I agree physical games will probably exist for a long time, just like vinyl and the aforementioned Atari 2600 games. But collectors aside, downloads will form the largest part of movie, game and music purchases I think (source: my crystall ball). It is an interesting question whether you'll be able to sell'm. On the one hand I think you should be able to do that, but on the other hand this would require some kind of DRM which obviously sucks and it also seems silly to sell something digital to someone else and than not have it yourself anymore. - TobiasVerhoog.com