Across the history of media, the formats we hold in our hands have always yielded, eventually, to the formats that cost less to move. The disappearance of the physical game disc is not a cultural statement but an arithmetic one: manufacturing a single Blu-ray, routing it through global logistics, and surrendering a retailer's margin adds up to a burden that a 30 percent digital commission simply does not carry. Publishers did not choose to abandon the disc so much as the disc's own cost structure chose for them.