This debate is pointless... retailers and major consoles keep artificially jacking price of Digital in order to appease retailers. The main advantage of digital should be that they are cheaper than physical. But, if overnight digital games would be $10-20 cheaper than physical games, this would kill the retail market.

All these threads wouldn't be defending physical if they cost $10-20 more than their digital counterpart has they should. Music and Movies have all gone fully digital and it's only a matter of when not if Video games will go mostly digital. It is pretty outrageous that physical games cost are on par or sometimes cheaper then Digital games. Obviously physical games offer more value if priced the same has digital.

I wouldn't pay full price for Digital games but as it stand I got a good deal on my pre-order of Witcher 3 and other good deal on deals with gold such as Forza Horizon 2 (50% off).

I agree that physical is the way to go. I only buy digital if there is a significant discount for buying digital.

I buy all my games digital. No sense in having several hundred physical copies lying around when you live in a small 1 room apartment. Besides, I think it's more practical in every way and I have really fast internet so download speed is of no concern either.
Between Steam and GOG, I have everything I need and can't think of a single reason to go into a store and buy a retail copy.
I don't care about reselling either, selling my games dirt cheap to stores like Gamestop only to have them mark them up by a few hundred percent to make money off of me and at the expense of the developers is not something that it important to me at all.

But, hey; to each his own!

Digital games are a step forward. Again, that's like saying itunes was a "step back." I'm sorry, but I was under the impression that you listen to music. Who cares if you own "thin air?" Games are made to play, not to hold and touch. That "thin air" makes for a better, more convenient, play experience.

I wish we moved on from discs. I still prefer physical, but I've lost too many discs to young relatives playing with them >.

Physical games used to be an experience. I loved reading through manuals and advertisements, but most games now have removed them. I still only buy physical, but I wait until games are on sale or clearance.

I'd completely move on to digital for consoles if the games were cheaper. For the Vita they usually are so that's why all my Vita games are digital.

The reason I buy physical games these days because I can resell it for a good portion of my original purchase price when I no longer wish to own it or dislike it. And, because I can use services like Gamefly. That said if I know I'm going to play it a lot or it has a lot of replay value I prefer a digital copy so I don't have to swap discs all the time. I usually have one disc in the console (my Gamely selection) otherwise I don't have many discs anymore.

I've never been a big collector anyways so this suits me fine. I'm just glad we still have the option.

Digital needs to be cheaper, i need to be able to feel secure that they will always be availablek to me and there needs to be a reseller market. Alternatively let people rent games

I don't dislike digital, but would prefer physical, especially if they are the same price