All digital here... and as far as downloads go, it boils down to your internet connection. Any game above 38GB takes me around 5hrs to download. Usually I just start the downloads at night before i go to bed and the game is waiting for me when I wake up. Pre-downloading has been a god sent though, now the game is ready before launch day. 

How does what you just said not also apply to steam? Can you redownload games from steam if valve shuts down their servers? 

Its alright. Its easier to play games since you don't have to put the disc in everytime, but otherwise, there's no other advantage. I only get games digitally if there is a good sale.

actually.  allow me to clarify this.

your account can designate 1 ps4 as your "primary".  your primary console is the one that downloads are sent to if you buy your games on the web site instead of via the console (which i recommend btw).  

you digital license is as such: 1 machine locked license (aka your ps4 set to primary) and 1 locked to your psn account.  if you don't set your ps4 to "primary" (and i can think of no reason not to do so) then yes you will have to be logged into your psn account to play your games which means no access when psn is down.  so in short,.. set the primary status of your ps4 and you'll have no issues.

I bought the Killzone bundle at launch and didn't plan on going all digital. Bought BF4 disc with the PS4 day 1 as well but I regretted not getting that digital. 

Every game since has been downloaded and I've got a good collection. Prices on the EU store are too high for us and I was reconsidering only getting my fav games as digital. But then I set up a US PSN account and I save $30 for every game I buy there compared to in a store here or on the EU PSN store. 

So I'm pretty much going full on digital now. I've a 1.5TB HDD as well so I'm prepared. Downloads are slow for me because of my internet speed. But the PS4 downloads them in standby mode overnight. Both Far Cry 4 and GTA 5 were pre loaded and ready to go when the release date came. 

Recently pre ordered The Order 1886, FC4, GTA 5 and unless BF: Hardline turns out to be total shit I'll pre order that too. So my advice is go digital off the US store if you're from outside the US. 

Digital sucks when you buy a game that you think is good, but it is sooooo bad. You can't trade it or return it, you have to suck it up.

Other than that it's cool.

You can always do a back-up copy of the data of your 360/PS3's HDD info on your PC, just in case severs one day close, so the data stored in your hard drive will be forever safe; no games lost.

Can't say the same with PS4/Xbox One. I think the digital model on last-gen consoles was fine.

My PS4 is set to primary already so I'm fine then

Sorry to hear about your DS troubles. That definitely does suck butt

Thanks for the advice & for sharing your experience with it. Now, my only concern is Christmas Day. It's big in my house & I heard that the PSN servers were shut down last Christmas. If nobody can download their new games...that would be pretty sad

1. I dont trust Sony / MS / Ninty with digital. Their price is not right compared to steam. Just look at them.

2. Still, in steam even if the hardware dies there is no tension. But in consoles its an issue despite having backup. This is why I havent purchased PS+ or digital stuffs from PSN.

3. I know many people who lost lots of digital games because their accounts were suspended because of hacking. Saw a guy who playfire who lost £2000 games because his account was compromised.

4. I am old fashioned. The appeal of owning retail copy is just awesome. None can replace it.

Yeah. I'd have to be even more careful when deciding on what games to buy

I am exclusively digital this gen on PS4, mainly due to much lower prices in the US/UK PS Store than we have here in retail in Iceland (most of the time it's 50% cheaper at launch)