High street game shops coming to an end?

[AmigaNG]

So today in England I heard the slightly sad but not to surprising news that the biggest Gaming high street business, Game and GameStation in the UK may go into administration, I kind of knew it would come with Supermarket stores under cutting the price, online retails under cutting the price and downloadable games stores coming online but its kind of sad that when I go into town their be very few shops left of this kind on the high street. I still like and prefer getting physical copies of my games, maybe i'm showing my age, plus I like looking around the store, online just not the same thing.

I do miss the days I could buy Amiga games on the high street, I remember in 96 and 97 picking up loads of bargains when they where clearing all their Amiga stock.

So what do guys think the future of these gaming and software specialist stores will be? Are you sad to see them go?

[AmigaNG]

as some have pointed out, download content is far from perfect yet, the biggest problem for me is I live in a slight rural area so broadband speed if I'm lucky get just over a 1mb its really annoying as I can't really enjoy most online games, it just too slow, and to download just even the simple updates to games or the ps3 takes ages, reminds me of the old spectrum days, setting it up to load a game and then going for a bike ride or tidying up for half a hour and then finally I can play, this is what I sometime have to do with the ps3, not really progress is it.

Plus like people say the online prices are sometimes more than physical copies and there is going to be less competition if we just have one central store for each platform wich is what seems to be happening at least in the pc market their is a little bit of competition.

so I do feel physical media is still needed.