Apples and oranges. PCs are user friendly to digital, consoles are not.

Nintendo as an examples ties everything to our console hardware. Once the Switch online ends life, if your switch dies so does your game collection.

If my PC dies no worries, I just install steam on a new one and reinstall everything.

For digital to work well on consoles they need to be more open with how you backup your data and how you can use it once the generation ends at least.

I will use Nintendo as another example, virtual console great idea, but why the fuck did I have to buy the same game on Wii, WiiU and Switch, then you also got stuff that was on WiiU not on Switch. I mean fuck they are N64 games, no excuse for them not to carry over to the next gen system.

Digital Switch games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to your hardware. If your Switch dies, buy a new one, sign in and redownload your digital library.

Digital Playstation games are bound to your PSN account, not to your hardware. If your PlayStation dies, buy a new one, sign in and redownload your digital library.

Digital Xbox games are bound to your Xbox account, not to your hardware. If your Xbox dies, buy a new one, sign in and redownload your digital library.

Digital PC Steam games are bound to your Steam account, not to your hardware. If your PC dies, buy a new one, sign in and redownload your digital library.

There is no difference! If the platform still exists, your collection doesn't die with the hardware. If the platform doesn't exist anymore, you can't redownload the games on Steam, Nintendo eShop, PS Store, Xbox Marketplace, Ubi Store, Epic Game Store, EA Play...

Some people in this thread never heard of the franchise of stores in Japan called Hard Off.

Regarding the opening Question:

I will not quit gaming if the industry goes "only digital".
I will however, stop buying these newer systems and go 100% retro.
There are more than enough games to last for a life-time.

There is a difference, Wii and WiiU online services are dead if both of those die I can't redownload those games onto another WiiU. Hell I can't even use the web browser on the WiU? why not it's installed on there, I have an internet connection. Modern consoles with updates and patches are effectively useless as retro console.

This is super silly lmao

You have no authority whatsoever to say who's a true gamer or not. Get off your high horse lol

Everyone plays games for different reasons. Idk what else to say to you

Azz is gatekeeping a cardboard gate in the rain with no fence.

There is no doubt Nintendo, despite being a good developer, is archaic and antiquated.  

Thank God for emulation.  I try not to go that route but when Nintendo shuts things down or expects me to rebuy a game for 5th time....

You wrote "Nintendo as an examples ties everything to our console hardware."

"ties" = present, not the past. They haven't done that for over a decade!

• digital Switch games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to the hardware
• digital Wii U games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to the hardware
• digital 3DS games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to the hardware

You wrote "Once the Switch online ends life, if your switch dies so does your game collection."

Which is wrong, ergo your goal post shift to Wii and Wii U.

You wrote "Wii and WiiU online services are dead if both of those die I can't redownload those games onto another WiiU."

• WiiU online service ain't dead, only the eShop store took WiiU titles off its shelves. You can still redownload your bought WiiU titles.
• 3DS online service also ain't dead, only the eShop store took 3DS titles off its shelves. You can still redownload your bought 3DS titles.
• there are also a lot of delisted games on Steam, which can't be bought anymore. You can still redownload these delisted Steam titles.

The complete shutdown of the Wii and DSi online services and Virtual Console (without the option to redownload bought titles) was a shitty move from Nintendo, no question. Many of us have complained about that.

But that doesn't indicate how Nintendo will handle digital Switch libraries in a few years or even a decade.

Times have changed and digtal games got much more important over the years for Nintendo. There are thousands of Switch games without a retail option.

Nintendo got away with the shutdown of the Wii and DSi online services because they weren't very popular. The shitstorm for shutting down the Switch online services would be much much bigger... probably even bigger as the attempted shutdown of PS3 online services a few years ago.

• You can still redownload and update digital PS3 games although the store is closed.
• You can still redownload and update digital Xbox360 games although the store is closed.
• Nintendo has no "freedom of fools". They will also have to keep the Switch online services alive, as long as it is very important for their customers.

I have every right, because it is my opinion. I will call anyone not True Gamers if they fit the narratives just like you are entitled to call me silly. If you care about the format more than you care about the games, then in my eyes, you are not a true gamer, why? Because you don't care about the developer, the medium, the IP, you only care about whether or not you can collect it on a disk. 

You don't have to agree with my view, that's fine, but I stand by what I say. I play games regardless, if its physical, digital or Streaming. You don't have to agree with my view and I am not here to change your mind on it either.