| yvanjean said: 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 buy all my movies on blu-ray, which is usually cheaper than owning them digitally.
The case to buy movies physical is even a lot stronger than games. No patches needed, better picture quality, lossless sound, multiple sound tracks, lots of extras, and you often get the digital version as a bonus. They're trying to make the digital (to buy) version more attractive now by delaying the physical version. Buy the digital version now and watch it 2 weeks before the blu-ray comes out.
For example Justice Leage Gods and Monsters, PSN HD to buy CAD 24.99 3.4GB download, Amazon.ca CAD 21.97 Blu-ray + DVD + digital HD ultraviolet.
A digital version is only worth 1/3 or a physical version to me. I have a hard time paying $20 for just a digital download. That might change though as opposed to movies, physical game editions get more and more useless thanks to major day 1 patches. Anyway as long as digital is half price or more than physical, physical is still the best way to go. Can always sell it on or trade it in for half price off the next game.
Btw movies have not gone all digital. Can't buy any digital versions of Ghibli movies for example.
