Exactly why they're doing this: they're trying to discourage you from buying it physically like they did BO4 by putting a 50 GB patch in the physical edition. 

It's a scummy business move. The all-digital crowd will of course tell you they're doing a great thing and push for an all-digital future despite the fact that A)not everyone has internet, let alone decent internet, B)some people don't like waiting for game downloads and the whole point of physical is so you DON'T have to do that and C)it opens the door for companies to do shady shit like what Konami is doing with P.T. right now, making it unplayable for people who already have it downloaded because, again, you don't actually own the things you buy digitally. 

It's never gonna happen, deal with it. 

retail is dying. pretty soon yall retail people will be saying “back in my day, we owned PHYSICAL COPIES of our games. and we liked it!” and the young uns will say “but why? sounds inconvenient”

I just explained why it's never gonna happen, but okay. 

it's never going to happen because it's inconvenient for people who don't have internet. is that why it will never happen?

It's not convenient for people who don't like waiting for downloads, either. There will always, ALWAYS be a market for physical, it's never going away.

Unless they release the digital versions earlier than the retail versions. Problem solved.

I mean, there's already preloading. Internet infrastructure is going to keep increasing too. Most people order physical copies online anyway, and even with just 10mbit internet you'll download a standard 50gb game in 14 hours, which is much quicker than you'll get a physical copy delivered.

Imagine telling them you when you where young, there was no internet :p

and then, when i was barely old enough to remember anything, only one person in the house could be on the internet at a time, and no phone calls could be made during.

it's crazy how much things have changed.

I hate these practices.