Physical. I get roped in with good digital deals though. Or if I miss out on getting a physical copy. I had to pull some fantastic mental gymnastics last Sunday night to NOT buy God Eater: Resurrection. I was $7.99 and a digital only title. No physical option, so I almost bought it. If I colud get a physical copy, I'd pay 4-5x that without hesitation.

With so many games being cross buy via digital, and a future PS4 handheld on the way, I can not see any reason to buy physical. Then again I have not bought physical for about 7 years now.

True, but I like that digital games can often be dirt cheap. That an ideal scenario, I can't resell it but I paid less than a physical copy anyhow.

Mixed here, but I prefer physical. I have 150+ digital on the WiiU, a bunch on the PS3 and 2/3 of my collection on PS4 is digital. I still like physical though because as others have said ... what happens when my machine inevitably dies and the servers are no longer up and running for me to restore the collection I may have spent thousands on?

You make a good point.

Then again, a metric ton of games I bought digitally last gen have appeared in updated form (Flower, Castle Crashers) or via BC on my current gen consoles. Nice little bonus, imo.

But there's no right answer. I was a guy who'd never buy digital if there was a physical option. Now, I love digital.

Digital is convenient as all get out and it does have it's advantages: my son (living in California) and I (living in Indiana) can both play my copy of Overwatch since I have his PS4 set as my primary. Hell oddly enough we can even play it at the same time.

I wish games were like movies where you got a digital copy with the physical release (for a few extra dollars sometimes), then you would have the best of both worlds. I've recently fallen in love with Walmart's practice in this regard. I scan my receipt with their "savings catcher" and they send me an email (if I bought a qualifying movie) with a link that adds the movie to my Vudu account which is linked to my Ultra Violet account. I don't even have to open the movie and type in the code on the Ultra Violet website. Scan the receipt, wait for the email and click the link and I'm done.

Man, that sounds awesome. Maybe some day....

You sure you want games to be more like movies? Digital games to get lower quality textures, no extras and lossy sound ;)

They can do that with movies since blu-rays are more desirable than the digital version for those that buy them. I have over 500 blu-rays, never entered any digital movie code. I don't see the point of getting an inferior version to stream. I got a bunch of useless dvd discs as well, hate it when I insert the wrong disc and get greeted with an ancient dvd menu lol.

With games, that disc wouldn't even leave the shop, get code, trade in. Unless digital games actually get priced right and not sold at the same price as physical copies. It's nice they still have the loophole of multi use for 1 digital purchase, it used to be 5 copies though. The more people make use of it the sooner they'll clamp down on it. Although they probably won't, the margins on digital are too nice to make it less desirable.

Meanwhile physical is made less desirable all the time. Boxes are flimsy, manuals a thing of the past, no making off, music tracks or other extras on the disc, full install required, usually a day 1 patch making the disc version already inferior. You can still sell it on and not worry about data limits, plus it's nice to have something tangeable and collectable.

It's a mess. I have digital and physical versions of Flow, Flower and Journey. Disc has the extras on it, music etc. Yet the digital version let's me play them on ps4 which the disc won't. Not sure what to celebrate here lol.

Physical will always be better than digital, period. Think of it this way. Sony closes their PS3 store and your PS3 with your digital games takes a shit because, lets face it, discs and cartridges will last a lot longer than a console when cared for properly.

So then you buy a refurbished model from a 3rd party and you are good to go without losing any of your hard earned game collection...IF you bought physical games. If you went digital however, too bad so sad you just lost everything.

Back up to an external HDD? Good idea! Oh wait, your new refurbished console will reformat it and wipe it clean.

Seriously digital is horrible for anyone that actually cares about their investments long term.

Remove DRM from digital games and repeat the survey