Are you a digital gamer or physical gamer?

Big budget titles I'll buy physical. Lower priced ones I buy digital.

100% digital ive been digital since the switch lite came out fire emblem three houses was my first and last physical game I bought back in the day

I used to think I'd be only physical, but after trading in Xbox 360/PS3 and now seeing my PS4/X1 games, digital is way to go. Even better is GP and PSN+ Extra, no need to purchase games.

Physical mostly.

100% digital although I do like the idea of trading in a game that wasn't as good as I expected or just bored of it. There's sales all the time on steam or epic. Really no reason to pay full price. Also, as discussed before, buying a game knowing you'll trade it in, is essentially the same as renting it. Basically the same thing you can do with redbox except you have to drop the full amount at purchase, whereas redbox charges you a rental fee first, and then the entire amount if you don't return it. At least that's how it was before, I haven't been to a redbox in forever. Physical was cool back when cartridges were a thing(I guess Switch still has them). No reason to get a bluray disc and have to install the game on harddrive which takes up the same amount of space as downloading it. Then having to make sure the disc is in for the license.

Let’s say Redbox was still in the business of renting games. And let’s say they charge $2 a day to rent a game. That means if I hold the game for a month, I’m essentially paying full price of the game. Whereas with owning the game, I can decide to sell it when I please. So I don’t really see it as the same renting the game.

I own a copy of Silent Hill 2 Greatest Hits edition for PS2. If you check eBay, it’s going for at least $100. I paid $30. How about dem apples?

Digital since like 2010.... I regret every physical disk purchase I made between then and now. Collectors editions that take up space. Bleh. Gimme the code baby.

@SolidGame_basic: Yeah I guess the redbox analogy doesn't work. And dem apples are oranges now. I doubt any current physical game will be worth much in the future(Maybe Switch games).

@joshrmeyer: well if more people go digital, then they’ll become rarer lol. Could go either way I guess. There are definitely still hardcore collectors out there.

Ah, this ol' debate again.

Whatever, I'll bite: I am 100% digital. Only practical reason (imo, obviously) for physical is resale, and I don't do that, so no need for physical.

Meanwhile, a lot of reasons for me to stick with digital. I'm on PC, btw.

• No worry about scratched or lost discs.
• Better selection than physical available, and available at many different locations.
• Able to store my game collection, which at this point probably counts in the many many hundreds, if not 1000+, anywhere I want. I would need a small library to do that physically.
• Since going all-digital in ~2004, I still have every single game I have purchased. Do you have every single physical game you purchased since 2004?
• I can still play every single game I have purchased since 2004. In other words, essentially near-infinite backwards compatibility.
• Despite all the doom saying, none of my games have been removed from my digital library. No, not even if they have been removed from the store I bought them from. No, not even Ubisoft removed it 😋
• Some digital storefronts have good support and/or community tools built into them.
• Larger selection.
• Often less expensive.
• Access to independent and small-scale games. Are there physical copies of Valheim at Best Buy? Grim Dawn?

I would argue there is safety in numbers. Any mishandling of sales, revoking of access to a digital game, etc. would result in monstrous class-action lawsuits.

I mean we've all seen how gamers react over bullshit that happens in their games, imagine how organized and motivated we'd be if something that mattered actually happened? We would be legion lol

@mrbojangles25: I have hundreds of games between console and PC and with the exception of a few games, 99% of the time I don’t revisit those games.

Yeah and that's a fair point. Hell, I have a huuuuuge backlog of games I still need to play just because I see a good game for $5 and I figure "why not?"

With that said, it's more of a better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it situation for me. You never know when a total overhaul mod for an old, favorite game you haven't played for 10 years is coming out, for example, or when someone on here reminds you of an old game and you think "Wow, I need to replay that".

As they say:

Speaking of, need to replay Deus Ex!

*Plus, I like my collection. I like to have thousands upon thousands of hours of gameplay just sitting there.

75% physical 25% digital on consoles

100% digital on PC obviously

Prefer physical because it actually hold value and I can either sell them or trade them in towards a different game when I beat it.

I will buy digital over physical if it's a lot cheaper on sale or something

I went digital a few years ago and haven’t looked back (except for Switch games). It’s just too easy to download games and they’re always on sale or on GamePass/PS+. I know it’s hard to make the change but one day we’ll all be digital gamers. One day GameStop and the like will cease to exist. It’s coming. It’s just taking longer than the movie rental business.

Given that every single console game released is now incomplete, I don't see the point in physical. You don't have the whole game on a disc, just an early version that needs a massive patch day one and is missing tons of DLC and add-on content. It's just an OCD thing with me.

If games still came with the manuals like they did in the 80's-90's, I would do physical. I am 100% digital unless I see a deal on a physical game that never goes on sale in the digital space. I see no point in having a physical collection anymore.

might consider all digital on console once there's any competition on digital prices so launch games arent 20-30€ more expensive on digital vs physical

Digital on XBL so I can share my games with my kids console. No way in hell I'm buying every game twice to play with them.

25% digital. 75% physical.

I’ll get a game digital if that is the only way to buy the game. Or if it’s a game I was interested in but not enough for a day one purchase and is on sale at an insane discount.

Digital for PS4/PS5/Series S and physical for Switch if it's available.