Unfortunately, the hits to the physical media side just keep on coming, as for whatever reason, the DEG streaming numbers don’t include subscriptions to Amazon Prime, the second biggest streaming subscription provider in the U.S. One assumes this might have something to do with Prime Video only recently being offered as a standalone monthly subscription, independent of the standard $99 per year Prime subscription fee.
Regardless of how fast the streaming eclipsing physical media ball ends up rolling downhill, it’s hard to imagine a circumstance where the tide ever ends up turning back the other way.
The streaming genie has long since left the bottle and services like Netflix are likely to just keep packing on new subscribers as the months go on.
Thus, that $6.2 billion figure is probably much higher in reality.