>>280467407
>Everyone is starting to
No, digital growth has been happening for almost ten years now. KGB was able to grow physically when digital has already overtaken physical sales by a big amount. It wouldn't suddenly lose because of digital.

>>280231614
Paper magazines are almost dead and have been smaller than print volumes for 20 years. The price rising to 500 yen has been a big factor in that, they used to be far cheaper.

>>105638952
Digital distribution is fairly successful in Japan, just look at the comics market.
For games they had digital distribution via kiosks in the 80s and 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System#Disk_Writer_and_Disk_Fax_kiosks