I avoid digital as much as possible- I only download digital if it’s free due to promotions or dirt cheap(like less than 10$, also I don’t mind forking out a couple dollars for PS1/PS2 games.
I just prefer retail in general, picking up a game and putting a seatbelt on it for a safe travel home makes me feel good.
Also internet in Australia in general is just horrible, it’s so bad it’s being compared to the poorest countries internet. , damn you our current prime minister Malcom Turnbull for destroying Kevin Rudds NBN whilst Tony Abbott was the prime minister. Must have sucked his buddy Rupert Murdoch’s dick to keep Foxtels monopoly in Australia. He is like 400 years old and so greedy and needs to leave earth as soon as possible.

Digital only, only, only if forced into it by pricing.

See: Soul Sacrifice Delta for Vita, the only English physical release being in Asia - I will pretty much have to go digital.

edit: also had to get Suikoden 1+2 digital from PSN a few days ago, because the games were so highly priced physically last I checked.

I went fully digital ever since I got the PS4 in 2013. I didn't really think about it, it just happened, mainly because it's so convenient, as I have a crazy fast Internet connection and download 50 GB games in half an hour. But I like it. It feels a Lot like my good ol' pirated games which I played in the 90s all the time. But this time it's legal! Yai! =P

The Ace Attorney games for 3DS are probably my biggest example.

I'm more than happy to pay for digital in some cases. Indies being all digital is no big deal for me, because they usually go on sale for $3-$5 on steam after a few years anyway. Another time I'll get digital is if it's a game for a console that I don't own. KoTOR on steam, because Xbox is redundant in my household. Sony/Nintendo systems combined already play 95% of all games anyway. Civ VI on steam, because it isn't on any console. 

But what I HATE, HATE, HATE, is when a game launches for $60 digital and then is listed as $60 on the steam store for years, only dropping the price temporarily for Steam "Sales". 

Steam: Hey, an item on your wishlist is on SALE!

Me: Oh wow really? Good. 

Steam: Yeah, it's one SALE for $30!

Me: You mean the exact same price that a physical copy went for last year? That's not a sale. -_-

With Best Buy's GCU all the $60 games are $45. I realize though, that not everybody lives in the U.S. and can take advantage of this. Aren't physical games $100 in Australia due to taxes? 

It's not really Valve who actually decides what everyone prices their games at. It's the devs who decide what prices go down and go up. I've found some Japanese devs keeping their prices up on Steam, with some notable AAA publishers also doing the same.

During the Winter sales, SE hardly bothered to reduce the price of Nier either. 

Australia prices vary from business to business.for a big third party game/first party game,  100 is the maximum for a standard copy but it can go for as cheap as 64 at launch. 

Department stores- Kmart, Target and Big W sells brand new games at launch for 64 bucks, usually lasts 1-3 days but then it goes up to around 80. 

Electronic stores- JB Hi-Fi is around 80-90 at launch

Dedicated game store- EB Games- 90-100 at launch 

JB and EB does price matching- if you use the department store promotions they’ll match it and you can snap up a new game for 64 :)

Edit- taxes are included in the price for everything in Australia, so what ever you see on the shelves/online/digitally is exactly the same price at the checkout because tax is already included. 

I usually prefer physical copies and will usually only get digital if that's the only way to get something, or if a game is much cheaper digitally compared to physical, though i'm not sure how often that happens. 

For example I bought Modern Warfare Remastered on PS4 digitally a while ago and the PSN Store page told me it was only like 40-50GB or something like that then it turned out to be like 77GB or something like that. That really fucked up the rest of my PS4 storage and made me have to delete a lot of other games to make room for it.

That pissed me off, felt like false advertising and I regretted buying it. Even if it's because they had updates and DLC and such, then fuckin update the store page to reflect that new GB size. Just an example of why I would have preferred to get the physical copy instead of going digital if it was gonna be that big, but I normally don't buy big games like that digitally anyway. 

Super Metroid cost me more than the price of a brand new AAA game. There's nothing like owning the real deal for me. I just can't justifying paying for something that I can't physically own.

Digital media is like masturbation. It works. It gets the job done in a pinch but it's nothing compared to having a beautiful girl to make love to. That's physical media. It's the ENTIRE experience.

Oh, I have a lot to say abou-

"This is not a 'digital vs. physical media' debate."

...Nevermind.