Cloud gaming will determine the new lord of digital distribution

Nearly 15 years ago, most video games were sold in brick-and-mortar stores. Valve was about to launch Steam, and people could anticipate that digital sales were the future of the gaming industry. “But it will take time,” most industry professionals said. No one could predict exactly how quickly the transformation from physical to digital gaming would happen.

A few years later, many in the PC physical gaming market were out of business.