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Physical or Digital?

Digital Display (Ready For The World) 66 22.22%
 
Let's Get Physical (Olivia Newton-John) 204 68.69%
 
All I Really Want Is To B... 27 9.09%
 
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PC games: full digital. I dont even knw if there's physical copy out there.

Playstation: full physical. I love to collect beautiful boxarts.

3ds: mostly physical. I buy digital copy for games that i could play during short break (AC:NL, SM3dL, AA, SoS, etc)



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For gaming, physical all the way.

For the rest, with some exceptions, whatever is easier and more convenient to get.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Physical, the benefits of owning and storing your games outweighs the convenience from digital for me. Steam is the exception, it's not perfect because you cannot resell your games, but I like it overall.



Music: Physical, except from some youtube downloads on ps3.
Movies: Buy: Physical, I'll never buy a digital movie, no point.
Rent: Digital, streaming has killed video rental to the point choice is so minimal it's useless.
Games: Physical if available and at most $15 more than digital version.

Now I have a pro (and thus 2 x ps4) digital has become even less desirable. Downloading a game once already puts a strain on my bandwidth and cap. Downloading it twice sucks even more.



poklane said:

Physical

+ It's cheaper (physical is at most €60 vs. digital is €60/€70 depending on the publisher on PSN)
+ You can return/trade-in/re-sell the game
+ You can loan the game to a friend
+ Collector's Editions
+ Installing a game is way quicker on PS4 (physical takes a few minutes at most, downloading a game will take hours)

Only games I buy digital are when they're on sale, such as the PS+ Driveclub discount which got me the entire game for €22.49

By the way OP, both PS4 and XB1 fully install physical games to the HDD so that point can be thrown away

On a side note, I'd like to point out that "installing a game takes minutes" on PS4 myth.

 

Yes, you can play a game from the beginning in minutes, if not seconds BUT when I got my Pro and tried a few games, the harsh reality hit me. I tried to load saves from further in the game only to see that it would take an hour or more for the content to install.

 

Same with downloads. You can download enough to begin rather quickly but if you're trying to continue a save, it could take hours for the content to download.



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I was a physical comics guy, too. I still have a closet full of hundreds and hundreds of comic books. After i realized that I wasn't going to retire and live off of comic book sales, I began buying collections. When I realized it was easier to carry a thousand digital comics on my tablet, I went digital.

Never looked back!



Games: Mixed, but both physical and digital have problem in this gen.

-Physical: Your game may be incomplete and when you want to buy a focused multiplayer games even so it has single player campaign, you're going to download more than 20GB(coughHalo5cough).

-Digital: They can permaban your account, you lose everything, so, be a nice guy.

Musics: Physical.
Movies: Physical.



Physical!
- Even though I have unlimited internet, my internet isn't the fastest (less than 1mb download per sec)
- Somehow the games I want are mostly cheaper when I buy it in stores
- Its nice to have the box displaying in my room



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Jranation said:

Physical!
- Even though I have unlimited internet, my internet isn't the fastest (less than 1mb download per sec)
- Somehow the games I want are mostly cheaper when I buy it in stores
- Its nice to have the box displaying in my room

If they sold boxes with digital codes (and they probably do), that'd be the best of both worlds for me.



Both.
I'm trying to get physicals, but only for big and promising games. Never buy physicals to games like Journey, Rocket League, Shovel Knight etc.
Reason number one: price.
Reason number two: a lot of friends, colleagues and neighbors with PS4. Giving each other physicals is superb convenient.
Reason number three: digital is more convenient personally and overall
a) switching games on the go
b) no tray noise or additional delays
c) almost can't see the difference between installing from the media or downloading from the servers

If the game is a high budget AAA then I'm checking the price. If physical price tag isn't crucially bigger then I'm going PHYSICAL
If the game isn't an AAA then I'm going DIGITAL