why? because

- I can resell my game

- i can buy it used for cheaper, and in most cases used games are cheaper than digital games on consoles or PC

- it feels nice to wrap up a new game and put it into your collection

- i dont have to worry about servers being offline to redownload games if i want to play them

- storage is not free, you save a lot of hard-drive space.

and no its not true that the disc are just autofication. The games are installed directly from the discs and with the PS4 case you can start the game while installing in the background. The trophies are also installed on the disc and can be achieved offline. Its only DLC and patches which you have to download, but just because 10% of the game isnt on the disc doesnt mean i have to go all digital.

yeah haha. not only that, but people who enjoy video game history and like to collect and go back to play old games they may have missed prefer physical for obvious reasons.

Physical. You can never have too many hot nurses prodding you.

Mobile isn't successful because it's portable. It's successful because it's convenient. That convenience, in large parts, comes from being digital. The audience being casual has nothing to do with it, again, with PC as definitive proof.

The mainstream audience for consoles most definitely is a casual one. It's not "dude bros." It's just not the same audience as the mobile audience. That demographic only makes up a fraction. And absolutely none of them would care about a move to digital. No casual gamer would get so hung up on something so insignificant like that. The Only major audience it effects is parents, as they'd want to control what they buy for their kids. That's where the Amiibo download codes come in.

It should also be mentioned that Nintendo currently isn't really apart of the same demographic as PS4/XBO. One could argue that their audience is just as different as the PC and Mobile ones. Either way, there are two massive examples of success in all digital gaming. I see no reason why a console competitor can't gain similar success. In fact, I think it's way past time, and the guys who do it well first will be a force.

Owning the game I bought will always trump all the benefits of digital.

I'll probably continue to buy Physical until, Digital is the same price or cheaper, more HDD space, and used game industry ends.

There are plenty of ways to play old games what aren't physical on PC, consoles, and even mobile. That doesn't hold up.

i guess when your game crashes in value right away like madden you might like digital. Fact is most Nintendo games though it's certainly not just nintendo hold their value very well and eventually go back up. Go ahead and try and sell your Wii U full of digital games and then try to sell it with all of those games physical. If you buy the games used after they drop in price then sell it on craigslist it might not even cost you almost anything in the end.

Cheaper price? Wut?

- There are already systems in place that circumvent the "benefits" of being able to sell/rent/loan. There's share play, services like PS Now, and just regular game sales. Again, the reason people don't complain about PC not having a used games market is because the deals are so good. That same thing is already beginning on consoles.

- Buying games months later can equal the same giant savings with digital games. That isn't more common with physical.

- That's a bold faced lie. Servers only effect online play, which also effects physical copies. All it takes is keeping your games downloaded to your console to not lose them.

- That will change with the move to digital, and only effects a tiny minority of buyers.

- In an ecosystem built around digital games, HDD space wouldn't be an issue at all. I have a 1TB HDD, and I'm no where near filling it even though I'm all digital. I have a 32GB SD card on my 3DS. Same situation. Same outcome.

- They aren't significantly effecting digital either.