The digital/physical ratio you see flying around is misleading since it generally also includes digital only games (mostly indies) and stuff like dlc

Valid points. imo the cases, boxes and manuals for games and consoles are part of the experience and get me more attached to my copy since its, well, MY copy which is something digital games can almost never do for me

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They made the switch for movies and music because they offered all of them and a reasonable price. But as they start raising the prices removing access to content, i wonder if we'll see a switch back. Most people I know have cut streaming gone to piracy. Hopefully there's still money in purchasing films and music. Although with how films are locked down, the DRM and quality is worse. Requires that connection and an account can't do imports or out of print/ rare films. I don't really know what the future holds. Plus Sony just announced they were going to remove a bunch of stuff and then extended the licence for 30 months. Everything's up in the air and I just hope physical media sticks around long enough to weather the storm and go back to being somewhat popular a man can dream

Digital for PC and physical for Switch that's how I've always rolled, and if I ever get a PS5 (probably not cause they keep bringing their games to pc) im doing physical only for that as well

Physical games are just drm keys, you still have to install them and all your progress is tied to an account and in many cases require an internet connection. So why bother. Since the 360/PS3 you cannot be sure that the whole game is on the disc, with day 1 and additional patches updated the game. Making the disc nothing more than a drm key. The best way play games in my opinion isthe following: For multiplayer games, I just use gamepass as they all have a limited active life, so why spend £70 for something you cant use when you want in future. Only exceptions is games likd Titanfall 2 which have both single and multiplayer. For single play games, I use GOG on PC. Games are DRM free, your save file is not tied to an account, and you can make copies of the game to preserve and back up the files on hard drives for redundancy. While Steam is king on PC, its still tied to an account and you dont own what you buy, on GOG you do Thats my opinion, whats everyones thoughts?

Physical is better but unfortunately, if the companies stop making them (like pc physical games) nothing we can do.

Remember vinyl still exist. It is actually on the rise.

Just back up Steam games. If they ever closed you could make the games run without Steam. This makes them better than physical games. Stay away from console digital, if they close games are gone especially if the console broke.

if physical games are dead then gaming as a whole is dying

The only pro argument for digital games is pirating, and that's only for game-preservation. I haven't yet seen any evidence of disc-rot, and I've been collecting since PS1. All my games still work, even my burned PS1 discs.

live gaming is the trend and you just can't own live gaming owning games will still exist just not as the main marketplace I'm currently playing 2 live games and I don't own either. The other 2 games i'm playing I do.

I like fiscal games but with updates unless you get the complete version after it gas been out

Delisting doesn't remove the game from your library... it just remove the ability to purchase the game so its the equivalent of the end of production of physical copies. Displaying your games is also possibile with digital. Steam have an amazing profile system that let you display the games you own or your favorite game etc. physical copies and physical hardware continues to age and will die in the future. Some of my ps2 games dont work anymore and also my ps2 stopped working some years ago. That day i felt like a part of myself died. Now days i buy physical games only where i am forced like for some old games that never got a digital release in the first place.

I can sell all my physical games on Ebay when I am done with them. You can't sell your digital games. Physical copies depreciate in value a lot quicker, so can get old games a lot cheaper and shop around for the best price.

Since companies are forcing people go zdigital did it myself but only if can download for free sailing the high seas sa ing a ton of money. The advantage of digital is easier and faster making it to high seas

Have your pet at home or pay to visit your pet at the petstore. Then you lose your password, the petstore raises their prices, gets hacked, accuses you of hacking, or goes out of business.

Physical games decrease chances of your games getting stolen easily and you dont have to worry about your credit card money getting stolen(when i were to get physical games i use cash)

Digital wil be a prison governments are telling game dev to promote digital wy for a new system for the whole world social credit system we all can stop the digital world not buy or dowload digital we are in power when we al.work.together come on people !!!

One guy just got banned from minecraft for naming one his villagers "idiot"... in his own private server with no other human players. i like the freedom in physical. No sony goon is going to come to my house and break my disc in half, because i named a character wrong in a single player ps3 game, lol.