That's true. But, I don't really game on PC.  Just never got into it.  Also, I've been primarily playing on a PS4 Pro for the last couple of years.  I'm mostly caught up on the PS exclusives that I'm interested in.  I also have 2+ years of Gamepass ahead of me.  So, there are reasons beyond Halo for me to start with XB next gen.  

The disc drive is fugly! I hate asymmetry so if I were to buy a PS5, I'd go with digital.

I guess you don't drive a car then, or does yours have a steering wheel on both sides :p

It is kinda ugly and I am leaning more towards digital nowadays. I just pre-ordered Tlou2 digital edition although I would love to have a disc version.
1. Covid19, it's not going away here, no point risking even the smallest chance to bring covid19 home over a video game.
2. Digital can be played on 2 consoles at the same time, even co-op or against each other with one ps+ subscription.
3. Last gen (some) digital editions got free upgrades for ps4 while disc editions did not.

But I'll stick to the disc version since covid19 won't last forever and I have a lot of discs to stick in the ps5!

PS4 launched at 399 and first BF after that was only a free game or two on the same 399 price. Only on the second BF after launch (so console was entering third year) it got an offer that made it cheaper.

Then it certainly makes sense to pick a XSX for you.

The price of the console is not the issue about getting a discless edition of a console. The issues are the price of games, the lack of resale option for games, and the lack of certainty about games being playable even on future consoles (i.e. whether future consoles have backwards compatability). To elaborate:

• Digital games are still way too expensive. During the 7th generation, there were actually some pretty good deals, albeit rarely. During the 8th generation, I've at best looked at a deal and thought it was actually decent. Not once have I thought I've seen a good deal (without PS+ at least). If that's anything to go by, I definitely don't want an all-digital future on consoles.
• I'm not one to usually sell the games I get, but not even being able to do so really hurts value in my eyes.
• While I do play mainly fairly recent games, it's also not at all rare for me to play some older games. To this day, I still play PS3 games (and would play even more of them if I had my controllers in better shape), and I've also had urges to play PS2 games. Unfortunately playing PS2 games is a fairly big pain because I don't have a PS2 hooked up because there's no room for it. On the other hand, I have occasionally played PS1 games because I can do it on PS3.

So yeah, in this light, I'm not going all-digital on consoles for any price.

I'll be buying the Disc version, but I will continue buying games Digitally.

I havn't bought a Disc based game in years, but I do grab 3D Blu-ray Movies from time to time, so I want to keep access to them in my main media center.

For my other rooms, it will be all Digital Edition console though.

Only thing that could change this is if they offer up 3D and 4K Movies through PlayStation Store. In that case, I would go all Digital Editions, and re-buy my 3D Movies through PS Store.

No, I would not. I don't feel Sony is there when it comes to digital rights, and I don't think a digital only console would make me comfortable when it comes to ownership. And that's also a thing I want, physical ownership.

Nope, I love proper 4K quality and buy my favorite movies on 4K Blu-ray. In addition, both Sony and MS have atrocious server speed on downloads, even small patches take a long time. Not to mention the annoyance of filling up your drive quickly with digital versions. I buy all my PC games digital and have done so for about a decade now, it's just much smoother with really quick download times, simple updates and properly functioning clients with integration for mods and everything built-in. Look at the terrible sales of the all-digital Xbox One, which was discontinued shortly after its release, I seem to be in the majority when it comes to all-digital consoles unless there are some huge changes coming. I bought the Xbox One Slim with digital version of Forza Horizon 3 with expansions, it took hours to download and install (on a 150/150 line that seems unreasonable) and the game is huge relative to its actual size and content. Heck; the clunky storefronts and interfaces alone on PS and Xbox digital titles is enough to put me off the idea of an all-digital console.

I suspect that the digital version will be scraped for the slim revision and only one version will be sold by then.

I say no because Im a fan of physical content. Also, I question a digital edition being (much) cheaper. If the BR drive is the only exclusion (along with a slightly different case build) then you're really not cutting out much of the cost to build. Thus, why would it be much cheaper?