Perry predicts death of physical games media

Physical media is at the sunset of its lifespan. Eventually, all games will be based online.

That was the view of industry veteran, and Gaikai founder, David Perry.

Perry was speaking at an opening keynote at the fourth annual Develop Conference in Brighton, UK. In an address entitled Embracing the Future, Perry told attendees that “it won’t be long before 100 per cent of games are all online.”

Perry’s keynote covered how media has evolved from disc drives to hard drives to, in the near future virtual media. His address covered how Facebook provides game content to the masses without needing physical data; “that was a major step forward,” he said.

However – just like in his recent interview with Develop – Perry spoke again of the friction involving the adoption of online games.

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