Which side are you on: Digital or Physical?

[Ganoncrotch]

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.