Physical Releases are phasing out I am happy enough with Digital as long as it is Digitally in my Possession!
By the way, I have room in my pc for an optical drive and I installed one when I built it a couple of years ago. I have a huge stack of physical copies to justify that drive.
Short answer: No.a lot of things
Nice theory, but to me it's still more likely that virtual stores are just more convenient for both the creators (no costs for creating boxes, easier worldwide distribution, outsourcing anti piracy) and clients (massive sales, not having to leave the house).I'm inclined to believe that the decline of physical releases reflects a decline in high-profile PC game releases. More and more games are produced by smaller companies that can't afford to move physical releases on their own. But then again, back in the day a larger publisher might team up with such smaller companies to get their games into stores, so I guess it's no longer convenient for either or both of the larger publishers or the smaller companies to make such arrangements.
That is exceptionally large for a game, I think.-gears of war 4 = 133gb