I have no frickin idea! It's so stupid. Digital can be a serious contender if it wasn't this limited. Maybe there are secret contracts in place preventing digital from being cheaper. Like how Nintendo games where the same price for years. I remember hearing of a scandal of some sort. Anyone else remember such a thing?

Digital shops  dont offer good value because Sony/MS/Nintendo fear that having unbeatable offers  will kill retail support. Thats why they price it so extremely high.

If a digital shop is completely independent like steam it offers good value because steam does not give a f*ck about retail.

Don't remember such a thing. But I really don't see the logic of fifa 13 being 70€ while fifa 14 has released? -_- 
or mass effect beeing 70€ while my retailer sells it used for 23€ (But it's a really rare copy, I just missed 1 yesterday :l)

This 100%. I could also quote JazzB1987.

With the emphasis on the 'ownership' and 'long term rental' part. I think a lot of people will feel sorry for ever going digital in the long run. I'm still playing games that are over 20 years old, I'd like to be able to do the same thing 20 years from now. Only possible with physical.

I won't go digital, ever. If gaming becomes digital only, I'll stop getting new games. Luckily the backlog of games produced up until now over the generations is more than big enough to last a lifetime .

Yup. A few years from now on there will be no evidence of digital games while we will produly show our retail versions. Good news is that retail versions will not go that easily.

PHYSICAL!!!!!!!!!!!

I just like looking at my wall and seeing 100+ PS3 games. The only real problem is that I am running out of space with another 100 DVDs (they can be thrown away probably...), 50 blu-rays and loads of TV box sets. I don't really buy much physical media for films, other than the odd blu-ray given I get them all free on Sky or Netflix, but games I still want physical copies.

Physical all ze vay. Digital for indie games mostly.

PS4 games: retail... so I have the option to sell them if I get the digital version later via PS+ ;)

Vita games: mostly retail for the same reason, but it depends on the price... Sly 4 was much cheaper on PSN than the retail versions. And my Memory cards are full with PS+ games anyway. ;)

PS1 + PSP classics: digital... great PSN deals and I can play them on different devices

3DS games and DS classics: I'd love to go 100% digital for several reasons:
- 3DS games aren't that big, DS games are even smaller... so many games can fit on a 32 GB SD card
- I don't want to carry several 3DS and DS moduls around... they need additional space and can be lost/stolen

What holds me back?
- the 3DS needs an account system... I don't want to lose all games if the device gets stolen or breaks... or if I want to switch to a different 3DS model. These worries about your digital purchases you don't have with any other mobile device (Vita, PSP, iOS, Android, WP8...)
- no DS and only a few SNES games in the eShop... Nintendo could make a sh*tload of money by offering the best DS games for $10 to $20 in the eShop. Offers like "Ace Attorney 1 - 4 for $29.99 or $9.99 each" would boost the fan base and sales for Ace Attorney 5.

PC games: mostly digital nowadays... I still have hundreds of PC games in DVD boxes and big boxes, but the growth of my retail collection nearly stopped. Steam sales, GOG, humble bundles (and other indie bundles) and kickstarter projects have taken over.

A year or so ago i was really leaning more and more towards digital. Generally cheaper and takes less space but in the recent months i am leaning more towards physical copies again. The digital downloads are becoming quite big in download size and i guess i just attach more value to a physical copy.

A game will need to be 40-60% cheaper digitally compared to physical copy for me to consider it. So i guess pc is all digital, psn/xbla/wiiu ware only titles would be digital but otherwise i'd go for physical copies.

I mean just look at Killzone 3's 50 GB space requirement. Around 9 of those plus space taken by OS and you are out of hard drive space on what seemed like a very generous amount at the beginning.

Pretty much physical except for PSN only games and PS+ games. I have 33/298 available gigs left on my PS3 and that's from only downloading the PS+ games and PSN games, so I don't want to start downloading every game I play to my hard drive.

I will be digital only on my vita, however. I bought the retail games at first but realized quickly how inconvenient it was to have to find them and change them if I wanted to play another game.