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Forums - Gaming - Digital or retail. Which hits your wallet harder?

 

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The digital market. 27 18.88%
 
The retail market. 69 48.25%
 
Both, but I prefer retail. 31 21.68%
 
Both, but I prefer digital. 9 6.29%
 
I'll explain in the comments... 7 4.90%
 
Total:143

Digital store on consoles suck since they rarely have good deals so physical it is there plus you don't have to download which saves a ton of space and you don't have to deal with slow internet speeds either ...

On PC, digital is the way to go ...



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In UK PlayStation store is about 10-15 pounds more than buying physical from Amazon.



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Easily retrail. I rarely buy any digital games.



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Retail gets almost all of it.

Digital hardly gets my money at full price. Usually when its dirt cheap.



Clearly physical because you have to open your wallet to pull out a credit card or cash. So the wallet takes some beating.



 

 

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Both hit my wallet hard, but I buy digital far more often. Mainly because I don't want to leave my house cause i'm fat.



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I take advantage of digital sales and can get a game for $45 when they have deals with gold. For Nintendo games im split right now. Half games digital, and half physical. 



Retail is getting most of my money as I only buy extremely cheap stuff digital. And even then I use the foreign Xbox stores.... Most expensive stuff I bought through the Xbox store was Watch Dogs Complete Edition for 12.50€.

Has nothing to do with my internet though, I have no data cap and a pretty decent speed.



Retail always has better deals and physical goods at launch (means you can resell aswell for added value).

Both get pretty good discounts later on but retail is constricted by stock.

I only buy digital if its a really good discount or it's a fighting game or a game suited to short bursts where it would be a pain to swap discs constantly.



On PC, I buy about 95% digital. The only exception being collector's editions and stuff like Indiebox (which still comes with a digital copy). On consoles, I buy about half and half. Especially once I realized that the PS4 still installs the entire game to my hard drive. Again, collector's editions will always cause me to buy physical. But the number of physical games I buy are dwindling.