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A lot of this really depends on what the people buying the thing will want, but I don't think Deluxe Packaging is ever gonna go out of style. Look at the ultra-sexy Blade Runner 5 disc Blue Ray set. Hell, look at the Lord of the Rings Badass editions. Or even the Fight Club brown paper box package. Stuff like that is classy and will always sell.

I think someone said it already, but DD is good for renting.

I think music is generally gonna go the same way. You'll probably have an iTunes release or some other kind of digital thing, but there will always be a hard copy available for those who want it. Radiohead's In Rainbows box set is selling quite well despite them having given the album away a while back.

Same deal with videogames, too. I love Steam, I have a ton of games on it and adore it to pieces, but some games I want the badass deluxe set (Oblivion springs to mind). For something that you're buying all at once (the id Pack, the Rockstar pack) DD makes sense. I really don't need 19 discs full of id stuff floating around, or even 3 if they went the DVD route. I just want the games, and being able to access them whenever I want and never lose them is a plus.

But for some crazy RPG game or mech sim or whatever, if they want to pull out all the stops and give me a nice cloth map, a display case, a ton of behind the scenes content, etc., sure, I'll get the physical copy.
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