I prefer both but paying full price for downloadable games is the same as buying retail at 50 dollars. PSN has tons of sales each week and so does 360 or steam. 

But it doesn't need to be the shortest disc based games to find great value in downloadable games. 

Deathspank is 10-15 hours 

Joe Danger is over 10 hours

I also have put tons of hours into Marvel vs Capcom 2, Bejeweled 2, Crash Commando

I am probably over 100 hours combined on those 5 games more than 90% of retail games. 

Of course I have played 300 hours of Resistance 2 100 hours of Madden 10 so there are great choices either way but honestly from a strictly monetary point of view Downloadable games are the better deal on launch day.

I get what I want,price b damned.  Cause shorty, I don't like it if it don't bling bling and to hell with the price cause the money ain't a thing.

well... I get my games for no more than 15£... so PSN/xbla doesn't have much on them. (it's called waiting 3 months for a price drop... or plainly buying PC games).

i usually get my games in the 20-40$ range. or for example i got fallout 3 used for 5$. how many downloadable games could i get for that much money?

it really depends on what games you want/really want and how much you're willing to pay for them. flower fat princess tomb raider won't be worth more than gt5 to someone who loves gt so much that they'd marry if it was legal to do so.

that might not have illustrated my point so well because there's a lot of value in gt but if someone loves GOW and they needed to have it the day it came out. 60$ on GOW3 is worth more than 6 psn games at a total of 60$ because when you add up those 6 games, they dun morph together to form a mighty morphin' power kratos.

Agreed, XBLA is usually a good deal and has a lot of great games. I have actually been getting more XBLA games than actual retail games these past couple years. Braid, Shadow Complex, Geometry Wars, TMNT, Turtles in time, South Park Tower Defense, Perfect Dark, Laura Croft: The Guardian of Light, Dead Rising: Case Zero, Scot Pilgrim, Castle Crashers, Toy Soilders, etc.. Good stuff.. Most of these games are $10-$15 yet can provide just as much fun as a $60 retail game. There are very few games I can justify spending $50 on, let alone 60.

Not to mention that you can rent God of War III, beat it over a weekend and send it back in the mail to Gamefly at a estimated cost of way, way less than $60! :D You can't do that with XBLA/PSN titles.

I prefer discs, you actually own them.

ya...i can't play frisbee with downloaded games <--it doubles the amount of games when it's disc-based