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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Video Game Industry Is Saying Goodbye to the Disc · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The compact disc remember CDs in its various forms, dominated
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  Speaker 2: entertainment for decades. It started with the CD the premier
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  Speaker 2: way to listen to music before iPods and streaming ever
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  Speaker 2: took over.
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  Speaker 1: Then DVD's and Blu rays were a musk for movie
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  Speaker 1: buffs before streaming and vod also took them down.
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  Speaker 3: And now the very last form of entertainment still using
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  Speaker 3: the disc is saying goodbye. It's video games.
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  Speaker 2: Sony, the makers of PlayStation announced they'll no longer sell
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  Speaker 2: games on CD beginning in twenty twenty eight. Xbox had
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  Speaker 2: already stopped their new models don't even have CD drives,
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  Speaker 2: but with Sony following suit, physical games are essentially dead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The decision comes on the heels of a Rockstar Games
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  Speaker 1: announcing that they would not be selling physical copies of
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  Speaker 1: GTA six, which is arguably the most anticipated game of
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  Speaker 1: all time and expected to shatter crazy sales records. That
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  Speaker 1: kind of set the president, and Sony was inspired to
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  Speaker 1: drop all physical game sales.
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  Speaker 2: And a massive percentage of games are now sold via download,
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  Speaker 2: So it makes sense. But it's the end of it era,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? GTA is out everywhere in November nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,