---
title: "The video game disc is dead — Stuff That Spins"
description: "For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mostly the games themselves. Over the years, games have come in every shape and size you can imagine. And now that era appears to be ending. On this episo…"
	canonical: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead"
html: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead"
json: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead.json"
markdown: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead.md"
keywords: ["SpinGraph", "spin analysis", "GEO"]
date: "2026-07-02T16:31:09+00:00"
modified: "2026-07-02T16:51:20.469748+00:00"
json_ld: |
  {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead#article","headline":"The video game disc is dead","description":"For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mostly the games themselves. Over the years, games have come in every shape and size you can imagine. And now that era appears to be ending. On this episo…","datePublished":"2026-07-02T16:31:09+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-02T16:51:20.469748+00:00","url":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead"},"isAccessibleForFree":true,"inLanguage":"en-US","articleSection":"technology","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Stuff That Spins"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/#organization"},"citation":"https://www.theverge.com/podcast/960810/video-game-disc-dead-vergecast","about":[],"mentions":[]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Stuff That Spins","item":"https://stuffthatspins.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The video game disc is dead","item":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead"}]}]}
---

# The video game disc is dead

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 2, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.theverge.com/podcast/960810/video-game-disc-dead-vergecast  

---
*HTML version: https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/the-video-game-disc-is-dead*