I think I see what you mean, but if you basically want a digital version at the same price as the physical one, then a digital key that can be price matched at the store would be sufficient?

Edit: Also, for people trying to resell their games will have a more difficult time since buyers won't know if your version is a 'normal' game or a 'locked' one :/

You're absolutely right. With game file-size reaching ridicule highs, especially with patches and DLCs, and hard-drive not significantly increasing, I'm starting to buy physical again. Also always owning and being able to play/emulate the game instantly vs. waiting sometimes up to 36h to download a game, then having to log, update, patch, install DRM and sometimes not being able to launch it or even play with backward compatibility (my PS3 and Wii U digital libraries have become useless).

But also despite having a huge Steam collection, I DON'T remotely trust digital anymore, you always get fucked and prices are way too expensive for a zero production-cost format. And it's going to get worth as we approach game streaming servers.

There's no way of getting cheaper digital games on console in this country. You might be able to get lucky on a key selling site like G2A but they rarely have console keys and also major ethical issues.

Also that's down to the retailers to make sure their used games workon other console. 

Don't think it's possible.

Funny though, I had convinced myself that starting with the Switch onward I would stick to digital. Couldn't do it, I need my boxes!

If that were to happen, games would completely stop selling digitally. Which give higher profit to publishers, so they would drop the digital price to equal the retail copies, which would then make that feature useless.

So yeah, sounds good to me

Buying physical is useless, learned it the hard way

Every game on XBO needs to installed first before playing. Not fun seeing games like Madden explode to 50gb

This has always rubbed me the wrong way. It's using the hard drive space anyway. The disc doesn't even spin in the console. 

Yeah it's bull.

Horizon a game that only came out a couple of months ago costs £34 on amazon  yet costs 47% more on PSN

£50 is quite cheap as well, considering to preorder a lot of games costs £55 for Destiny And Shadow of War

It takes a bit of time on Xbox, but I'm patient

I just find it annoying honestly. My space gets filled up way too quickly. That's why I always appreciate Nintendo's devices. 128gb on the Switch will take you a long way

I thought they'd improved install times, how long does the average game take?