Capcom’s senior vice president Christian Svensson predicted that most of the company’s revenue will be via digital channels in five years. Svensson also predicted that the publisher of the popular Smurfs’ Village mobile game will see its operating profit comprised of well over 50 percent from digital.

“And certainly sometime before five years from now, every game will be digital and retail day and date,” said Svensson. “On some platforms that’s already the case – it is on Vita. In Europe, the PlayStation 3 is already that way. I wish it were that way in the States as well. But I’d say that’s an inevitability. No one is really fighting that, but the question is when that will occur.”

As far as retail goes, he believes that, “the value proposition of retail and publishers will change. I think that retail’s role will shift from planned purchase to impulse purchase, predominantly, and planned purchases will increasingly happen online, just for sheer convenience’s sake.”

Source: Gamasutra