Yet you failed to address the most pressing issues: You can't resell downloaded games, and once the current download/distribution service ends and your hardware breaks, you can't re-download your games.

lol

damned yourself there buddy

Lol good luck having hardware or physical media that still works 20 years after purchase.  It's becoming more and more rare these days.

Also, the timeframe I gave was just a guestimation.  I'm sure if companies went entirely DD they would offer a few servers for downloading older games from years and years ago which would see very low traffic compared to the new release servers.

I actually did address this.  I said it was the only real setback.  Although buying used games is never worth it.  Save $3 and get a used, smudged, scratched version! YAY!  Lets not forget that developers would be recieving much larger profits from a DD model so would likely offer games cheaper and negate the need for a used market.

For the rest, please see my other post.  It covers the timeframe issue and the fact that physical media can expire just as well, if not even sooner than DD.  DD can be permanent if a company wants.  Physical media will always expire.

Maybe if they continue to tell themselves this , maybe they will actually believe it, Any HD console would benefit from having bluray, no more 3-4 discs , more exclusive content. I told myself for years I did not need a 360 since I already had a PS3 , not now that I have one, yes I needed it, PS3 and 360 both have great exclusives that if you are a true gamer you will want to play.

Also, @Damnyouall, just one more slightly off topic question. Do you use cash or credit? Because you seem so fixated on physical media, yet I can almost guarantee you use digital payment methods more often than not. If you don't, then the whole physical media superiority is just a sign of your not willing to adjust to the times. You will see physical media purists slowly fade away as time goes on since DD is better in nearly every way imaginable (all but resale basically).

Oh, so that's the most pressing issue ?

as for the "once the current download/distribution service ends and your hardware breaks, you can't re-download your games" statement

take Ultimate MK3 for instance. Discontinued since a few weeks ago but those who already purchased it can re-download it or years to come.

And you can make as many back-ups as you want.

Let us not forget how microsoft fucked PC users of the first gears of war. If I can't sell my game when I am fucked like that. I would be pissed. Both sides make sense. However as a digital medium for games. DD isn't quite there for the mass markets on the consoles. No doubt it does its fair share. But people are too used to getting real copies of the games.

And let's not forget the nice advantage digital distribution has for the corporations: No annoying competition. Yay, high prices. Monopolies FTW.