Update: The Outer Worlds for Switch launches June 5

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Pemalite said:

Plenty of Digital games have been removed.

The entire online library for the Wii no longer exists.
The WiiU will likely get shut down in the next year or two.
The Original Xbox with it's Arcade titles don't exist. (I have been wanting to get Ricochet Infinity for the longest time!)
The Dreamcast online networks are down.

Desura (PC), Impulse/Gamestop Online (PC) have shut down.

The DSi store no longer exists.

And when licenses expire for games, they get removed from digital stores. I.E. I can't buy Naruto: The broken bond for Xbox 360 anymore, so the removal of digital games and digital platforms is actually a rather common occurrence, more than what people think.

But all my Physical media still works fine and still plays and I can still buy and trade them.

You are referring to buying access. I am referring to playing access. Normally if you own a game digitally you can still play it regardless if its been taken down from the store.

The same argument can apply to you when buying old physical games, unless you Ebay, you can no longer buy old games.

Not all my physical media works and i own 100s of games, however i own over 1000+ games on Steam alone and they all work, and some have been taken down from the store to purchase.

Modern games still require online access and accounts to play so phyiscal is basically useless with some games only having half the content while the other half has to be downloaded. Its nice to have the case to look at but unlike the 80s and 90s, physical is basically digital anyway.