Weekly Stories: Film and TV ​streaming and downloads overtake DVD sales for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/05/film-and-tv-streaming-and-downloads-overtake-dvd-sales-for-first-time-netflix-amazon-uk

This article looks into how digital has beaten physical in terms of sales all round. Ths would go at Films, TV Shows (With originals being exclusive to the service), Music and Video Games

• Total revenues from digital video – which includes services such as Apple’s iTunes as well as Sky’s store and Now TV – surged almost 23% to £1.3bn last year
• subscription revenues increasing by 65% to £418m, driven by services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer.

In my opinion i think that this change would be highly expected from film and music because of the Digital first style of distribution. This would then therefore decrease the sales of physical copies since it would mean that the owner of the physical copy may not be willing to spend more on the physical disc. I think that this may mean that physical copies would be more scarce as time goes on. As for Video Games, due to their immediacy with players wanting to get their hands on plying the game, it would be less likely to occur since there are exclusive collectable items that act as an incentive for an audience to pay more for the game so it may not be dying as much as digital. However the other advantage would be that the game tends to run quicker with a physical disc. And so because of this video games are less likely to move from physical copies.