Yeah, there were changes in the last year and it seems about right that Nintendo is a few years behind the pack regarding digital. This all looks more or less plausible.

The only thing we don't know is if Switch will follow a trend "launch aligned" to reach 50% as the table consoles or if people when weighting pros and cons of portability on digital versus HDD size will decide for not going 50%+

For someone that plays 2-3 games at a time I don't think HDD size is a major problem if it's fast to download or keep backup in an external HDD or PC (that you need to validate before transfer to Switch internal memory), and for sure it is better to have all the games you need already in the system without needing to carry extra disks.

Myself because of collection and liking to pay less on older titles that I didn't want to pay day one 60 USD will still majorly physical, but I can see Switch userbase going more and more digital.

4% of my PS4 games are physical or 10 out of 250

10% of my Switch games are or 8 out of 80 games

thing is though, you really can't take anything away from the numbers on this site from the userbase here, we are extreme cases for the most part of gamers, we are not the norm. Would be like taking a survey of boyscouts and asking what percentage of people enjoy helping old ladies across the street, or what % have been molested, figures gonna be through the tarp.

I own 3 physical PS4 games and more than 30 digital.

Do you think it's a big burden to keep downloading new games and erasing older ones? And keep a good use of the internal HDD? I know for me it wouldn't be an issue because I rarely play more than 1 game at once, I preffer to dedicate to plat one per time. At most I play my cellphone games with those energy charging per time as concurrent ones (exvius I have been playing for 2 years daily).

I’ve gotten rid of all my physical games for my PS4. Everything I own now is digital. 68 games on 4TB of storage. Always said I’d never go digital but was compelled to by the fact that my son and I are both gamers and this was we can both own the games and only pay 1 price.

Depends on the region too, Japanese people buy much less digital copies due to a competitive physical market.

I buy 95% of my games in physical format. I have a tough time spending anymore than like $6-$7 on a digital game. Physical, is can either trade for another game that i want, when i'm done with it, or sell it. Digital, i'm just stuck with it.

I have PS4, PS4 Pro, PS Vita, XOX, and Switch.

All Digital on PS4 + PS Now, 242 PS4 Games according to PSN Profiles. I have many, many more I have yet to even play.
All Digital on PS Vita, except Disney Infinity 2.0 which was Physical only. 63 Games according to PSN Profiles.
All Digital on Switch, currently sitting at 6 games.
All Digital on XOX, all games via Gamepass.

I only know one person that has a physical game amoung family and friends, and that was a year one purchase. Even amoung co-workers I only know a few people that have bought any physical titles this gen. I think Western Washington is a very high percentage Digital Zone. You can get 60Mbps for under $50 a month with a 1TB cap. Digital games are pretty easily accessable.

Now when I travel for business I know this is not always the case. Been in some places with some terrible Interenet, even if you pay an arm and a leg.

All digital pretty much since the start of the gen (PS4) and even on Vita (easily over 200 games across both consoles). The only exceptions were Bloodborne (which I ended up buying digital as well) and MGS5. I even changed my Shenmue 3 kickstarter copy from physical to digital :)

For Switch I have Zelda in physical format, but the other 5 or so games were all digital.

Vowing never to buy a physical game ever again