You never own a game truly, it's in the fine print, you essentially pay for the right to play it. Regardless, What's the difference if you keep it on a set of HDD's for future purposes or on a disk in a box? Well, I as someone who has the code can download it onto multiple HDD's for future back up. Something I am in the process of doing with the games I want to keep the most. I'll actually have copies on two different HDD's, and one on my current HDD/Ps4 pro. All the while of having the original code available on the PSN for download if needed. You misunderstand digital, like I once did until my disk drive broke and it was the best thing that happened to me in gaming, I ended up saving ridiculous amounts of money, gained the ability to buy more games, life became ever a tad more convenient, I get big releases at midnight continuing the old tradition of midnight releases that is no longer possible here and regardless, it's actual midnight. All the while, having so much more protection to my games, safe from scratches, loss etc as well as have to need to bring it with me traveling. 

All the benefits aside, I'll never return to physical gaming for a disc and a box that is only a hassle at the end of the day and a burden to earths ecosystem with all that resources it takes to make and transport that physical media. 

You never own a game truly, it's in the fine print, you essentially pay for the right to play it. Regardless, What's the difference if you keep it on a set of HDD's for future purposes or on a disk in a box? Well, I as someone who has the code can download it onto multiple HDD's for future back up. Something I am in the process of doing with the games I want to keep the most. I'll actually have copies on two different HDD's, and one on my current HDD/Ps4 pro. All the while of having the original code available on the PSN for download if needed. You misunderstand digital, like I once did until my disk drive broke and it was the best thing that happened to me in gaming, I ended up saving ridiculous amounts of money, gained the ability to buy more games, life became ever a tad more convenient, I get big releases at midnight continuing the old tradition of midnight releases that is no longer possible here and regardless, it's actual midnight. All the while, having so much more protection to my games, safe from scratches, loss etc as well as have to need to bring it with me traveling. 

All the benefits aside, I'll never return to physical gaming for a disc and a box that is only a hassle at the end of the day and a burden to earths ecosystem with all that resources it takes to make and transport that physical media. 

Rather the opposite, downloading 100GB is out of my reach with a monthly data cap.

I wish we could back to playing from disk. I can have less and less games going without the hdd getting full. Read and seek speeds are the problem though with physical and there doesn't seem to be any faster affordable alternative on the horizon. 100GB cartridges will not be cheap either.

Depends where you live. I'm in Ireland and I've no data cap. 

Even here in Brazil, most internet sevices for home have no data cap, only internet deals for mobile devices have this. If there were data caps for home internet all over the world, Twitch, Netflix as well as other streaming services would be inviable to use. Only an afternoon of Netflix or Twitch session would eat all your montly data.

Even here in Brazil, most internet sevices for home have no data cap, only internet deals for mobile devices have this. If there were data caps for home internet all over the world, Twitch, Netflix as well as other streaming services would be inviable to use. Only an afternoon of Netflix or Twitch session would eat all your montly data.

It's 500GB monthly, plenty for Nextflix, You tube and reasonable size patches. However taking 20% of that for one game download is a bit much. Currently there's still 155GB left for the next 9 days while we average about 15GB daily. A 100 GB download will not fit.

15GB is about 5 hours of Netflix in HD. It saves money not to pay for 4K Netflix as we can't stream that anyway :)

Besides that, disc install is still faster and I don't have to leave the console on all night to download the game. Plus I'm one of those old sobs that likes to see all my good games sitting on a shelf in my man cave. I'll probably pick up Astrobot as well to put on the shelf although I've already platted the digital version. It's too good to sit on a hdd.

Doubtful, and even if the PS5 drive supports blu-ray XL, it doesn't mean that publishers will use it. A single 128 GB blu-ray costs like 3.5x more than a 50 GB blu-ray right now, so you can get 150 GB of storage for a lower price by going with multiple 50 GB discs. If publishers go with blu-ray XL next gen the price of physical games will most likely go above $60 for the first time in over 15 years, which would piss off alot of gamers. Far more likely that publishers will stick with dual layer blu-rays, which will also incentivize people to switch to digital, which the publishers want because they have a higher profit margin on digital sales than on physical sales.