
I've seen three Gamestops in my area close already and there's rumors BestBuy is close to closing up as well. Additionally, a friend of mine mentioned he heard Microsoft will offer a $499 Xbox One with NO DISC DRIVE. Now this might just be rumor, but they did try to get gamers to switch to online only purchases initially with the X1, so it's not too far fetched an idea. Pretty soon there'll be no place to buy a physical disc and everything will be downloads. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I did stop buying a lot of music once all the record stores disappeared. Without something in my hand, I just didn't care as much.