{"id":1620,"date":"2026-11-13T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2026-11-13T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:00:49","slug":"games-will-have-a-physical-footprint-forever-take-two-boss-says-but-itll-be-very-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Games Will Have A Physical Footprint Forever, Take-Two Boss Says, But It\u2019ll Be \u201cVery Small\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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

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Lucia and Jason in GTA 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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 (but not the game), and Rockstar is also releasing GTA 6’s score on CD and vinyl<\/a>, but the game itself remains a digital-only experience. <\/p>\n

GTA 6 launches on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. A PC edition<\/a> and online multiplayer are both rumored to launch in 2027<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}