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Physical or Digital?

Digital Display (Ready For The World) 66 22.22%
 
Let's Get Physical (Olivia Newton-John) 204 68.69%
 
All I Really Want Is To B... 27 9.09%
 
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d21lewis said:
Jranation said:

Physical!
- Even though I have unlimited internet, my internet isn't the fastest (less than 1mb download per sec)
- Somehow the games I want are mostly cheaper when I buy it in stores
- Its nice to have the box displaying in my room

If they sold boxes with digital codes (and they probably do), that'd be the best of both worlds for me.

Oh! That would be interesting! I think some PC games does that. 



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2 Pros for Digital
+ If you live in a rural area you can still get access to games which your near by stores would never buy in (Vita Titles).
Although I guess could be circumvented by shopping online, but then you're going to the internet anyway, just download it.

+ Can get access to a game when you want it, Not limited by postage times/store opening hours.
My mates were playing Overwatch after buying it on day one, I hadn't jumped in directly after the Beta, one night logged on Bnet, saw mates playing it, bought it digitally, playing it with them 20 mins later.


Also as much as you have it as a + for Physical games that they can increase in value, it also should be a - in ways, like say if you want to play Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii or get the GC games, you are looking at a really rare title which will cost you a fair amount of cash to get your hands on the discs for it, on the other hand you can go into the Nintendo Eshop on the WiiU and buy it for $19.99 or any of the GBA games on the Wii-U which will set you back around 7 dollars... some of those to get physical will break your wallet. NES megaman games are another case of things which are available on almost every system digitally for the price of a tea, but getting a functional NES and copies of the original games off ebay will cost you a ton more for a lesser experience.

One other issue with Physical is while they might last on a shelf forever some parts do not, if you have a copy of Pokemon Red/Blue for example, chances are that it's now 20 year old Battery which it uses for saving data will just not work anymore so the game just will not be playable, sure you have the cart to it but it isn't functional as a game, whereas a digital copy of Pokemon R/B on the 3ds will be perfectly playable and allow you to back up your save data on a SD card or PC so you will never lose your team again.



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I'd buy digital when it's the same price or cheaper than physical. At the moment, PSN prices are about £10/£15 more expensive than amazon.



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I'm leaning physical.



I said this before but....

At one time, I loathed digital games. Then XBL and PSN started releasing these critically acclaimed, small games that were only available via download. They were a cool addition to my library.

After that, I got a few digital games for my PSP because they ran better and were easier to carry around.

PSN had some retail titles that could be downloaded but they were so big, I couldn't fathom downloading them. Then, Xbox had games like Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands for like 6gb. I warmed up to the idea but I still preferred physical.

Then, I began downloading 3DS games. Old Nintendo games on my Wii. Nintendo hyped up digital games on the WiiU. And often, you could find a good digital game on sale. A couple of times, I couldn't find a game on store shelves so I downloaded them and it was good.

Fast forward to the present. What's holding me back?Everything has to be installed anyway, right? I've already had to pack away several games because they couldn't fit in my shelves anymore. It would be a headache digging out my copy of Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing. Only the "A list" are on display these days.

Several of my older games were backwards compatible on XBO and given away for free and suddenly, I realized, why not go full digital? I'm not trading in anything. I only traded in about 4/1000 of my games since 2007.

For about seven months now, I've been digital only and I've never been happier. Getting a new, bigger HDD excites me, now!



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I was full digital until now, but my Nintendo addiction is pulling me away from the promised land .



In the wilderness we go alone with our new knowledge and strength.

All digital unless its Nintendo.



Physical all the way.



4K Blu-ray movies if possible. If not, Blu-ray.

Xbone and PS4 games digital, but try to buy on sale. Get collectors editions on physical to scalp.

3DS, I want to get physical, because they are essential SD cards anyways. Also, Nintendo games are expensive and they hold value. Then there's the fact that downloading 3DS games is slow.

Vita, they still make games for that? 🤔







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JRPGfan said:
Games I want to own physically.
Movies & music, digital is more than fine.