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Retail:
Tropical Freeze, 3D World, COD Ghosts, Need for Speed Mos Wanted, Sonic Racing Transformed

Digital:
Nano Assault Neo, Trine 2 Director's Cut, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate



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No digital yet (not including Virtual Console) but about 7 physical. Reason I don't have more Wii U games has to do with the fact that I don't get the chance to play the Wii U very much. That, and my budget has gotten pretty tight lately so I haven't even been buying all the 3DS/Vita games I've wanted (4 or 5 3DS games, about 10 Vita games). Wii U games are a good bit more expensive so... yeah.



3 games on Wii U, all discs.

I don't like digital because it's usually full retail price and can't be traded.



My 8th gen collection

2 physical + the pack in game (Mario and luigi u)



That's a lot of 3RD Party games. 



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Physical games I have: DKC Tropical Freeze, Darksiders 2, Lego City, Wind Waker HD.

Digital: SM 3D World.

Also digital: Trine 2, F-Zero, Super Metroid, Nano Assault Neo.



Nintendo Network ID: Cheebee   3DS Code: 2320 - 6113 - 9046

 

15 physical games, I don't buy digital games on any console.

Resident Evil: Revelations
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Need for Speed: Most Wanted U
The Wonderful 101
Rayman Legends
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Batman: Arkham City
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Batman:Arkham Origins
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
Amazing Spiderman
Assassin's Creed 4
Super Mario 3D World
Deus Ex: Human Revolution



100% of my PS-Vita and 3DS games are digital because I need those games to be portable just like their host systems. I actually actively sold off 3DS cartridges I had replacing the cartridge with digital purchase version as they became available. I had just found, I wouldn't play any of the games that weren't saved to the system if I had to go looking for the cartridge (even if I was home).

The X360 and PS3 were mostly physical, but over time I shifted on the PS3 especially to mostly digital. Not because I bought more digital, but because of all the PS+ free games or trials that I would convert to a purchase in a few cases. I even bothered to upgrade my PS3 HDD up to 750GB just to be able to take even more games and even the 750GB is nearly full.

For the Wii U, I bought a bunch of games physical at launch, but after I put a 2TB USB HDD on it, it just got really convenient to just have the games get downloaded and be available to play without having to look for the game disk and go through any of that.

I have kept physical on my PS4 because the game installs are so large that it would take very few games to fill up the 500GB it came with and I don't want to do an upgrade anytime soon. So I leave the internal storage for the digital only games I decide to purchase plus any of the PS+ free games.

Bottom line, digital is convenient, but only as long as you don't have to start dealing with storage constraints or download time being too long (PS4 at 30GB+ games is too high to be worth downloading to me).



Wonderful 101
Assasins Creed III
Super Mario 3D World
New Super Mario Bros U
ZombieU
Wii Party U
NintendoLand (came with the deluxe)
Luigi WiiMote



I purchase all the big Nintendo games digitally.  Nintendo games don't drop in value the way other games do and I find that they are games I always want to go back to later on.  On my other consoles I buy at retail and then resell after I beat them.