I was on the fence in the discussion about physical video games because since 10-15 years ago 99% of the games I have purchased are digital (blame Steam). And also any physical game you buy today already has a day one patch waiting for you so arguably the game on the disc is somewhat "defective" as it is.

But I hadn't thought about things that will also die with no physical media:

- Lending a game to a friend - Second hand market - Retro computing collecting (think that ub 20+ years PS4/PS5 will be collected like NES, NeoGeo... is collected today)

And conveniently all these things don't make any money for the game publishers/console companies...