{"id":92968,"date":"2026-11-12T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92968"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:41:05","slug":"games-will-have-a-physical-footprint-forever-take-two-boss-says-but-itll-be-very-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92968","title":{"rendered":"Games Will Have A Physical Footprint Forever, Take-Two Boss Says, But It\u2019ll Be \u201cVery Small\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s no secret that the market for physical video games is drying up, but don’t expect physical media for gaming to go away entirely anytime soon, or ever, according to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick.<\/p>\n

He told The Game Business<\/a> that it “may not be the end” for physical media entirely in games, even with Sony killing off PlayStation discs in 2028<\/a>. He said there will “always be some physical business” for gaming, but it will be a “very small part of the business.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Lucia and Jason in GTA 6. <\/p>\n

He likened the scale of it to the vinyl business for recorded music. Most people might stream music today, but the market for vinyl is still there–and it’s growing.<\/a><\/p>\n

For Take-Two, however, Zelnick said its business today is 98% digital. Going all-digital has a lot of benefits for publishers, but it’s mainly about making more money. For GTA 6, the most highly anticipated game release ever, Rockstar is not offering the game on a disc, but the game will appear in stores via a code-in-a-box version. <\/p>\n

GTA 6’s $400 collector’s edition <\/a>comes with a range of physical goods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that the market for physical video games is drying up, but don’t expect physical media for gaming to go away entirely anytime soon, or ever, according to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick. He told The Game Business that it “may not be the end” for physical media entirely in games, even with Sony killing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92971,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92968\/revisions\/92971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}