Why so stubborn? What's really wrong with digital media?

[SvennoJ]

generic-user-1 said:

the2real4mafol said:
3 main reasons for me.

1. Shitty internet meaning big downloads take forever
2. no resell value at all
3. and finally lack of hard drive space. If i have to delete something. I can quickly reinstall it later from the disc if i want to play it again, i dread to think how long a 25gb to 50gb (even 60gb) game would take to download.

just buy another hdd with the savings. u can play most games from a usb3.0 hdd, so u dont have to install it inside.

What savings? At least here physical is still less than digital, even before resell value.
HDDs tend to fail a lot sooner than discs, and if a hdd fails you lose everything on it. I haven't had 1 unreadable disc yet since CDs, at least 6 failed HDDs in that time. I've now got all our personal data saved on 3 separate HDDs, paranoid maybe, but sick of losing stuff due to HDD failures.

Btw when you install stuff on an external HDD from an XB1, can another XB1 read it too? Or are you screwed when the console breaks?