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curl-6 on 10 February 2020
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Azzanation said:
curl-6 said:

Switch's internal storage and SD cards won't last forever either, and with digital I can't lend the game to someone, etc.

Well of course, however if you plan on leading your games to someone you only risk the chances of your games being damaged. I learnt that the hard way. I still love collecting my favourite games however physical carries some pretty major issues especially if its heavily used and aged. Nothing last forever unless you are hoarding.

Pemalite said:

The Switch's online system will be offline and the Switches NAND (Internal and MicroSD) will loose it's data long before the ROM carts start to exhibit any real issues. When that happens there is no way to recover your games.

Besides, the Switch carts are NOT the same as your old Gameboy carts, they don't have internal batteries and writable memory to save game data for example, there is fundamentally less that can go wrong with them.

In saying that, carts from old consoles can be opened up, internal battery replaced, it's actually a rather easy process... And those games can be resold for a small fortune these days.

I don't disagree with you at all. The moral of the story is nothing last forever no matter which media option you choose. Digital media has some amazing benefits over physical where with digital it doesn't have a life span, you can run that media as many times as you want however with Disks and cartridges they do wear and tear over time and are at risks for damaged.

Mario Kart was just a simple example of things in the past that can happen, I don't plan on changing the battery as I don't really use it anymore. These days physical games require day one patches, downloading some parts of the game and online access to an account to play anyway so physical media isn't really that much better in that department either. It is extremely rare that a digital game gets taken down especially when you have brought it. You eliminate the issues that physical media has and only reducing it to one issue and that's the devs not taking it down. I am aware it happens however there are probably more people with problems with there physical games every day than a game being taken down from a storefront.

I do love collecting games for the boxes and cases however I am starting to lose interest with the lack of effort with including colourful detailed booklets of the games I buy. 

I still prefer to own physical copies of my games; I actively enjoy having a collection of boxes with actual game cards in them, and I don't want to fill up my Switch's SD card and have to buy another one, I'd rather the one I'm using now lasts me the system's lifespan. (Which it should do, after 2 years of using a 256GB card I still have 220GB spare plus 3GB spare on the Switch's internal memory)